Hseq Advisor

Our client is seeking a confident HSEQ Advisor to join their dynamic team based at their customer site at Garden Island, Woolloomooloo, Sydney. This is a permanent long-term opportunity.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that sound health, safety, environment, and quality practices are identified, documented, and fully aligned to the key business drivers. You will partner with the business, providing valuable input to the site team to ensure these practices are understood and implemented.

Key duties include:

- Participate and provide advice in Zero Harm Committee meetings.
- Facilitate and guide employees to ensure that they report all incidents, injuries, illnesses, near misses, hazardous conditions, emergencies, etc., to their supervisor.
- Maintain personal contact with the customer base to ensure an understanding of needs and issues and provide reliable and accurate technical assistance and meaningful solutions.
- Facilitate inductions, training, and competency assessments of employees and assist in assessing training needs of all personnel.
- Establish and maintain consistent performance standards with regards to organisational and inter-department support, safety, to ensure efficient, respectful, and profitable work practices.
- Conduct regular toolbox meetings and associated methods of communication, ensuring safety talks and walks are a regular occurrence.
- Participate in safe workplace reviews, including hazard identification, assessment, control, and monitoring.
- Audit Zero Harm policies, systems, and standards, recommend improvements to management, and coordinate and develop process improvements and standard work methodologies to drive continuous improvement and process stability.
- Conduct incident management processes, including investigations and sustainable preventative and corrective action monitoring and implementation.

Skills and Experience:

- Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health & Safety.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ practical experience in a similar role preferably gained from the Construction and/or Infrastructure sectors, having worked in a medium/large multi-divisional organisation.
- Return to Work experience and or Coordinator Certificate / experience and Internal Auditing and or Audit certification highly desirable.
- Experience working with (implementing & monitoring compliance) HSE management systems, in particular ISO9001/14001/45001.
- Experience in HSE system implementation, preparation for audits, in particular FSC accreditation is highly desirable.
- Experience in working for an FSC certified company also highly desirable.
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment highly desirable.
- Incident investigation training (ICAM and or equivalent).
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the proven ability to negotiate, facilitate conflict resolution and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders.
- A current driver’s license.
- Ability to work with integrity and dedication to forge strong relationships.

**Salary**: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Flexible hours
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)