Manager, Operations North Coast

**At Grade Expression of Interest - Manager, Operations North Coast - Regional Operations Directorate, SafeWork NSW**

**Grade**: Inspectorate Award, State Team Coordinator
**Duration**: Ongoing, Full-Time
**Starting salary**: $148,966 - $150,372
**Location**: Ballina, Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie
**Applications Close: Tuesday 25th February 2025 (9:59AM)**

**About SafeWork NSW**

SafeWork NSW is the state’s workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to protect NSW workers by preventing and reducing work related fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety and associated legislation.

SafeWork NSW is undergoing an exciting and important period of transformation as we establish the organisation as a modern, strong and standalone Work Health and Safety Regulator.

**About the team**

You will be supporting a team of compliance inspectors to respond to workplace incidents and complaints. The team specialise in Work Health and Safety compliance, to ensure workplaces are safe and improvements are made when risks or issues are identified. Management of the team involves mentoring Inspectors, work allocation, responding to ministerial communications, using data to identify strategic compliance efforts and supporting proactive projects. Stakeholder engagement with unions, industry bodies and business owners are key elements of the role.

**Your responsibilities will include**
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team of SafeWork Inspectors and other officers delivering a complex range of pro-active and response regulatory services;
- Communicating effectively with industry stakeholders in a way that builds trust and supports collaboration;
- Providing leadership, direction and support to staff working within a dynamic high-profile environment ensuring adherence to public sector values;
- Utilising data and intelligence to guide targeted compliance efforts across North Coast and North Western NSW.;
- Working collaboratively across SafeWork NSW and as part of a local management team to focus on delivering on the organisation’s priorities;
- Implementing a performance monitoring and evaluation framework to ensure consistency and accountability.

**About you**
- **Demonstrated experience in leading regulatory staff within government compliance/enforcement areas;
- Outstanding people leadership and communication skills with the ability to provide strategic direction to a team within a dynamic and changing regulatory operating environment, and drive a high-performance culture;
- A strong commitment to, and be an advocate for, leading the strategic and operational direction of the business to align with organisational objectives;
- The ability to build relationships with stakeholders and industry groups and collaborate with aligned agencies.

**How to Apply**
- A covering letter (maximum two pages) detailing the skills and experience you would bring to this role, including demonstrated examples;
- You should also include an up-to-date resume (of no more than five pages);
Only applicants at grade or those comparatively assessed, on Talent Pools, will be considered at this stage. All other applicants will need to wait for the role to be advertised externally to be considered.

**Any questions about this role?**

Salary Grade STTEAMCO, with the base salary for this role starting at $154925 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: Tuesday 25th February 2025 (9:59AM)**

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