Manager Health, Safety

**Manager Health, Safety & Well-being**

**Classification **Level, Central Highlands Water Enterprise Agreement

**Team, unit **Health, Safety & Wellbeing

**Division **People, Culture & Safety

**Work location **Learmonth Road, Ballarat

**Employment type **Up to Full-time Hours, Permanent

**Position reports to **General Manager People, Culture & Safety

**Direct reports **Three direct reports

**Our Values**

Our vision: _Our Water - Our Customers - Healthy Living _

Our mission: _Together, we provide quality water and wastewater services, safely, efficiently and sustainably to _
- communities in the Central Highlands Region _

Our values: _Integrity Teamwork Leadership Care**Organisational Environment**

At Central Highlands Water (CHW) ‘_Safety is Everyone’s Priority_. We are committed to the safety of our people,
customers and the community we serve and have a zero tolerance towards bullying, harassment or violence within
the workplace.

We have an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and difference. We believe all jobs can be worked flexibly
disability, LGBTIQA+ and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We support and encourage employees’ continuous professional development. Employees are supported in keeping
informed of current industry best practice and are encouraged to take an active personal interest in staying up to
date with professional practices, standards and latest trends.

We believe that everyone has the capability to demonstrate leadership, regardless of their formal level of authority.
We expect all team members to focus their efforts on developing and displaying the leadership behaviours defined
in our Leadership Capability Framework. We have a commitment to enhancing our leadership maturity across the
whole business, through our internal Personal Leadership Program, Learn Lead Grow (LLG), and focussing on
Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organisation.

**Purpose**

The Manager Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) is a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) working
closely with the SMT, Executive Management Team (EMT) to lead the implementation of CHW’s Health, Safety and
Wellbeing strategic plan and priority work programs. CHW is actively working on a safety culture maturity journey
and aspires to be a safety leader in the water sector and beyond.

The primary objective/s of the position are to:

- Provide leadership to build proactive health, safety and wellbeing practices and culture throughout the

organisation.
- Drive and influence all levels of the organisation, contractors, and external stakeholders to realise the

benefits both individually and collectively in embedding resilient HSW practices in how we do business.
- Demonstrate the continued development, evolution and implementation of all health, safety and wellbeing

policies, procedures, and systems to ensure currency, alignment to legislation requirements and continuous
improvement to best practice standards.
- Demonstrate deliverables in HSW KPIs identified in the annual performance key result areas.

**Key Duties/Responsibilities**
- Develop and implement the CHW Health, Safety and Wellbeing strategic programs of work that actively

targets the leadership and culture required to become a generative HSW culture.
- Communicate the desired future for HSW in a style that creates a collective commitment to safety being

everyone’s priority.
- Identify and embed governance and oversight of the HSW risk profile ensuring fit for purpose controls are

embedded and actively tested for resilience.
- Build and drive successful relationships across the business while actively promoting a positive and

consultative HSW style to the Executive Leadership Team, managers, people leaders and team members.
- Manage HSW team members (three) to ensure individual performance plans are in alignment with strategy

and they implement a business partnering model with responsible divisions.
- Create alignment and trust through skilled report writing and communication targeting performance analysis,

lessons learnt, proactive action and assurance of critical risk controls.
- Proactively create and maintain positive relationships with external stakeholders including, but not limited to

contractors, industry OHS groups, regulators, unions and peak bodies.
- Implement an enterprise contractor safety framework that embeds into the contractor management

framework to ensure legal compliance, due diligence and proactive oversight of Contractor safety
performance.
- Deliver HSW programs into the business using inclusive consultation, co-led solutions, change management

frameworks and ensuring fit for purpose outcomes.
- Analysis of leading and lagging data, including development of statistical reports for Management and Board

Committees.
- Manage the injury/illness support program for team members including WorkCover claims management and

Insurer relationships.
- Maintain OHS Management System accreditation, inclu