Whse Lead- Wa

**Job Description**:
Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

**About this opportunity**

We specialise in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic and metal packaging servicing for the consumer and industrial sectors.

In this newly created opportunity with accountability for the WA region you will provide oversight and drive consistent implementation of the Health, Safety and Environmental systems to ensure the organisation meets its legal and ethical obligations.

As WHSE Lead you will ensure systems and process are in place that focus on risk management and risk mitigation and be a part of a national WHSE team providing support and controls to our sites.

The position is expected to provide a connection between the Site, Divisional and Group level activities and will require championing and monitoring implementation of the Group WHSE System (Policy, Procedures and Tools), including communicating with Site Management and conducting inspections and audits.

**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Provide oversight of health, safety and environmental incidents and supporting sites with incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action close out
- Monitor and drive activities with external regulatory bodies (such as WorkSafe and EPA) and providing recommendations of continuous improvement for the Group WHSE System
- Plan and implement environmental, health and safety programmes
- Identify common environment, health and safety hazards inherent at the site and establishes guidelines for the control of hazards
- Promote and champion a zero-harm culture, by providing expert advice, support and driving implementation of the Group WHSE system. This entails advice to the Divisional and Site Management teams.
- Incident Management
- Establish risk management and risk mitigation programmes
- Montor, interpret and champion changes to regulatory environment including communication of
- Support the development and coordination of strategies
- Train and educate leaders of the PACT safety management systems

**To be successful in this role, you’ll have**:

- Extensive experience as a Safety and Environmental Manager
- Qualifications in WHSE field (Cert IV, Diploma in Environmental/Risk field or similar tertiary qualification)
- Strong knowledge and understanding of WHS and Environmental legislation, codes of practice, standards and associated obligations
- Strong skills in hazard identification, risk management and incident investigation
- Previous experience in developing, implementing, monitoring and auditing Safety or Environmental Management Systems
- Excellent communication capability with all stakeholders around risk management
- Leadership and mentoring experience to continually improve the Quality culture
- High level of initiative and ability to work independently, work remotely and mange competing priorities
- Data analysis and solid report writing capability
- Passion for driving results, change and continuous improvement

Additional Information
**About us**

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.