Aps 5 - Safety Advisors

$78,143 - $83,700 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies - plus Super)
- Fishermans Bend - VIC

**The Role**
The Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) Safety Operations team is looking for emerging Safety Advisors who are passionate about work health and safety to be part of the safety capability that enables Defence science and technology research.

You will work with a team of safety specialists, emergency management experts, occupational safety professionals and other safety advisors, providing advice and assistance to DSTG researchers. Your safety knowledge and expertise will help them meet their safety obligations across a broad and often unique range of hazards and risks. You will contribute directly to the provision of a safe working environment for scientists, engineers, and technical experts focused on providing Defence with Science and Technology (S&T) capability.

You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your passion, commitment and experience in workplace health and safety through the delivery of professional and increasingly complex safety advice and assistance to S&T stakeholders and management within the Regional Safety teams based at: Port Melbourne in Victoria.

Your commitment to upholding and contributing proactively to the ongoing development and maintenance of the DSTG Safety Management System (SMS) is expected.

If you have a passion for safety, love working within a team, are people focused, and have great communication and stakeholder engagement skills, we would love to hear from you.

In this role you will:

- Deliver professional safety advice and assistance to S&T stakeholders and management across a broad range of hazard and risks.
- Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of the DSTG Safety Management System (SMS).
- Participate in a range of safety investigations, including in the delivery of lessons learned.
- Lead and contribute to the evaluation of activities and processes for compliance with work health and safety legislation, policies and procedures relevant to Defence.
- Communicate proactively with senior management and researchers by:

- highlighting safety issues for their attention
- providing professional and timely safety guidance and assistance and
- proactively sharing your knowledge and influencing for positive safety outcomes.

Where you exhibit the appropriate qualities and passion, we will give you the opportunity to continue to learn and grow into the role of a dedicated safety professional or hazard specialist with an established career pathway and associated training and development.

You will be supported to achieve a healthy work life balance with access to flexible work arrangements and well-being initiatives.

**About our Team**
WHS is about supporting our people and ensuring their health and safety in the workplace inclusive of physical and psychological health and safety. To achieve this, our DSTG People Pillar in the More Together Strategy commits us to nurturing a respectful, adaptive, safe and inclusive culture where people feel valued and can thrive. The Chief Defence Scientist (CDS) has committed DSTG to creating the right behaviours and culture for safety, “it is what we do that matters”. The Enabling WHS Capability team (Safety team) works collaboratively across DSTG to support the achievement of this commitment.

The Safety team engages with researchers from all areas of DSTG and partner to achieve better safety outcomes for Defence research work through the delivery of professional safety advice and assistance.

In a recent review of our enabling safety capability model, the safety function was divided into two streams comprising Safety Operations, and Safety Strategy and Assurance. The streams work closely and cooperatively together, but with some distinct accountabilities.

Safety Operations is delivered through two regional teams based in Port Melbourne, Victoria and Edinburgh, South Australia. Current vacancies are for safety advisors based in Port Melbourne, with some necessity for travel to other regional sites in the ACT, NSW and TAS as well as regional Victoria.

The Strategy and Assurance team leads the ongoing development of the DSTG Safety Management System (SMS) and is responsible for the development and implementation of the Group safety assurance framework.

The Operations team is responsible for supporting researchers to implement the SMS in a consistent way across their specific programs of work. It does this through the provision of professional health and safety advice and assistance, through reach back to hazard specialists, and through a continuous improvement approach to the SMS to support a fit for purpose and compliant SMS.

People enjoy working with our team because we share knowledge and grow as a team. We engage with research capabilities and provide the opportunity to share best practice in research safety across multiple capabilities and across many unique hazards and risks not found el