Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner

Full time position
- Location: Melbourne based
- Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner for Retail - Victoria, Tasmania & South Australia

**About Ampol**

Ampol is Powered by People. It is a great place to work. We are an inclusive company, incredibly proud of our diversity, and we respect and value the contributions of all our people.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose come from the people, businesses, industries, and communities we engage with. From our origins until today, we’ve always been inspired by the role we can play in people’s lives - Ampol. Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Here at Ampol, we are proud of our heritage as Australia’s only owned fuel brand. Ampol is a proud company that has been part of Australia's story for more than a century, we have supported Australians to travel far and wide, and we’ll be here for centuries more, powering better journeys for today and tomorrow.

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**About the role**

Reporting to the Health and Safety Lead, the Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner will partner with the business to ensure the safety and wellbeing strategy is effectively implemented and monitored within our Ampol Retail business. Focus will be placed on driving the right culture, managing risks and compliance, reducing injuries, and improving the overall safety and performance in the business.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensure effective management of change across the business to mitigate safety and business risk, as well as implement effective controls designed and operated in compliance with companywide frameworks, applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
- Lead investigations for incidents and support the operations team with operation readiness checks, as well as undertake risk assessment of tasks and equipment to minimise workplace injuries and ill health.
- Coordinate and undertake hazard identification, inspections and job hazard analysis.
- Develop and review documents, procedures, work instructions and safe work method statements.
- Monitor compliance with workplace policies and procedures including partnering with the business to periodically audit & review the effective performance and compliance of contractors with respect to health and safety.
- Partner, coach and consult with the business on safety plans and initiatives to ensure buy in and fit for business, as well as provide specialist advice and technical management support to the business through coaching and influencing, including operation-based audits.
- Provide input to key reports such as Head of Health, Safety and Security, whilst also consulting and communicating with key stakeholders.
- Provide trend analysis and insight to the business to make informed decisions and drive action.
- Encourage prompt reporting of hazards and incidents and ensure appropriate records are maintained.
- Work with the business to ensure that safety roles, responsibilities and expectations are understood and adhered to by the business, whilst supporting managers in activities to foster a positive safety culture.

**About you**

**Key skills and experience**
- Proven Health and Safety related experience in in a similar field (highly desirable from a retail operations field, ideally with a Retail/FMCG/convenience background).
- Evident experience in building health and safety capability in large organisations.
- High level ability to influence, coach and drive change, as well as a negotiation, prioritisation, and planning skill set.
- Knowledge and demonstrated experience for areas such as risk management, incident investigation, legalisation, safety management system design and implementation.
- Sound commercial acumen and the ability to make balanced risk decisions.
- Able to foster positive and effective relationships within Ampol and with regulators.
- Ability to multi-task and display strong written and verbal communication, consultation, and organisational skills.
- Strong team player with the ability to work independently.
- Project management skills to enable leadership projects.
- Intermediate to advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams skills required.
- Ability to travel away from home for short business trips as required and drivers’ license and vehicle.

**Our benefits**
- Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on fuel for two privately used cars
- We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- We value recognition. We