Hse Manager Agriculture and Food

**Acknowledgement of Country**:
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**The Opportunity**:

- **Join team CSIRO and make the impossible possible**:

- **Enable world class science to occur safely**:

- **Can you help adapt strategies, drive cultural change and support best practice?**

At CSIRO our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) partners with all levels of the organisation to coach and influence to make HSE personal. We provide future focussed, leading-edge development and delivery of HSE programs that result in significant improvement in CSIRO’s wellbeing and HSE culture. As the new HSE Manager - Agriculture and Food you will report to the HSE Executive Business Partner Future Industries and will be responsible for proactively partnering with, coaching, and positively influencing CSIRO’s operational line management and HSE advisors with delivering HSE goals. You will provide tailored support and coordinate the consistent delivery of improving HSE outcomes and metrics, HSE activities and initiatives for the Agriculture & Food Business Unit across regions and the wider organisation, with the key impact focus being to improve CSIRO’s HSE and wellbeing culture.

You will be able to build credibility with your stakeholders via your outstanding communication skills coupled with your natural relationship and rapport building ability. This will enable you to influence and provide critical advice and leadership to your stakeholders. No two days are ever the same, as you tackle a diverse set of issues - we can promise that it won't get boring If you can see yourself thriving in a fast-paced and complex environment where you can bring your expertise and hone your knowledge by being involved with different projects at varying levels of complexities, then this could be the position you've been waiting for. Why not make your next career move one where you can create meaningful impact not only to those at team CSIRO but to Australia's society, help make the impossible possible with us

**Your duties will include**:

- Drive, strengthen and support the implementation of CSIRO’s HSE plan and HSE management system whilst helping to improve the HSE performance of the organisation through technical leadership, influence, and strong communication in the Ag & Food BU.
- Drive the consistent delivery of CSIRO’s HSE activities across businesses and multiple operational sites to cultivate a consistent and organisational approach to HSE.
- Leverage and harness proactive partnering relationships with key site leaders and people, HSE Executive Business Partners and external stakeholders through being a trusted advisor, listening, discussing and providing clear advice towards set goals.
- Through HSE conversations & partnering develop knowledge and understanding of any unique HSE needs across the business or sector to drive the delivery of HSE priorities and initiatives, with a focus on consistent future focussed and positive HSE practices becoming embedded across the organisation.
- Coach to enable the growth and development of BU Directors, Site Leaders, staff and HSE team members in utilising best practice and leveraging capability and communities of practice to improve HSE performance.
- Lead and implement HSE projects to enable strategic outcomes and improvement.
- Guide, support and empower HSE Advisors to develop solutions to complex and challenging HSE issues in partnership with relevant workgroups.
- Establish, motivate and lead successful teams of people that can seamlessly work across multiple sites and business units to build both positive working relationships and influence positive, consistent HSE outcomes
- Develop and contribute to a cohesive, collaborative, innovative HSE team, ensuring seamless and proactive connection between all areas of HSE and regional areas more broadly - modelling desired culture, positive behaviours and empowering high-level delivery.
- Be an advocate for the HSE cultural change program by leading by example, acknowledging and actively promoting key desired behaviours to enable the growth of a high performing, positive and proactive HSE culture across the business.

**Location**: Open to Black Mountain ACT, Werribee Vic, St Lucia QLD & Adelaide SA

**Salary**:AU$117,917 to AU$138,176 pa (pro-rata for part-time) + up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Indefinite, Full-time

**Reference**:87805

**To be considered you will need**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant health, safety, environment degree, engineering or risk management along with at least 7-10 years’ demonstrated experience in leading HSE management within large or complex organisations. Experience working with industry scale operations such as in agriculture and sus