National Operational Safety Manager

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2009**About john Holland**:
At John Holland, our purpose is simple - we transform lives with everything we do.
We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

**The Opportunity**:
The Primary purpose of this position will be to undertake a primary Health & Safety (HS) role and secondary Environment, Quality & Sustainability (EQS) role supporting and monitoring operational compliance with HSEQS legislation, regulations, contractual obligations and John Holland policies standards, procedures & plans.

This role will assist the General Manager Major Projects HSEQ and other specialist HSEQ discipline and project leads to provide operational HSEQS support across the Major Projects business unit.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Provide operational HSEQS guidance, diligence, consistency, and discipline to business leaders to drive a culture of best practice.
- Provide specialist HSEQS advice and input to specialist business units during tendering, project planning and project delivery.
- Analyse data and information to support the continuous improvement of the John Holland HSEQS management System (HSEQS MS)
- Mentor and support the development of project HSEQS personnel in leading HSEQS practices and driving improvement.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintain regular visibility across the workplace, building relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Manage the development of Project HSEQS Support staff.
- Support the overall effectiveness of workplace operational safety risk processes and management.
- Build and maintain relationships with workplace specific internal and external stakeholders through effective stakeholder management strategies, ongoing engagement, collaboration, and consultation.
- Support the overall effectiveness of workplace operational safety risk processes and management.
- Develop high level project systems, e.g. HSEQS management plans, emergency response plan etc.
- Develop, Implement, coordinate, and monitor the effectiveness of a HSEQS Training Management plan.
- Mentoring projects teams, support, and subcontractors.

**You Will Need**:

- Bachelor’s degree in science or applied science majoring in either work health & safety, environment, sustainability, or quality or other associated disciplines.
- Construction HSEQS Management (5+ years).
- Generalist HSE management (8+ years).
- Specialist HSEQS Management (3+ years).
- Team management experience.
- Ability to travel Nationally.

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

**We Offer**:

- Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
- Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
- Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
- Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
- Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong - that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
- Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.