Hseq Manager

**About Us**:
The Eptec Group is Australasia’s leading corrosion mitigation and protection company specialising in all aspects of corrosion prevention. Our Total Asset Protection solutions and services include: Corrosion management; Blasting, painting and remediation of concrete and steel structures; Lining and waterproofing; Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Structural Strengthening; Cathodic Protection (CP); and Pipeline Electrical Hazard Assessments.

Eptec delivers across a diverse range of industry sectors, including naval, defence, marine, transport and infrastructure. Recent projects of the Eptec Group include the Bennelong Apartments in Sydney, Warragamba Dam Pipeline, Brisbane X-River Rail, Sydney Metro Trains, HMAS Choules, and Old Murray Bridge in SA.

**About the role**

We are seeking a confident HSEQ Manager to join our dynamic team based out of Henderson, WA, working across our business areas in WA & the NT. 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, whilst ensuring these are understood and complied with.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Participate and provide advice in Zero Harm Committee meetings.
- Provide senior support to the divisional stakeholders and Health Safety & Quality Advisors
- 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.
- Conduct monthly site/project audits/inspections. (Virtual and or on site) Measure system

regulatory and ISO compliance.
- 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.
- Deliver accurate, credible, and timely reporting that provides a basis for factual decision-making by Stakeholders.
- Conduct incident management processes, including investigations and sustainable preventative and corrective action monitoring and implementation.
- Work with management and their teams to assist in identifying suitable work for injured employees.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health & Safety.
- Minimum 10 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 Coordinator Certificate / experience and Internal Auditor certification.
- Experience working with management systems, in particular ISO9001/14001/45001.
- 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 drivers license.
- Ability to work with integrity and dedication to forge strong relationships.

**Join a dynamic team