Quality and Safety Officers, Aps Level 5

**Job no**: 511544

**Employment type**: Ongoing

**Location**: Sydney, Melbourne, Any location in Australia

**Categories**: APS Level 5, APS Level 6, Human Resources (HR) and People, Workplace Relations

**About the department**:
The department plays a key role in the Australian Government’s agenda to create jobs and build a stronger, more resilient and competitive economy. Our work builds on Australia’s existing strengths, supports businesses to grow, and drives new opportunities for long-term productivity growth and prosperity. The success of the department helps Australia recover from the economic consequences of COVID‑19 and adapt to its ongoing effects. Through our work, we support the government’s economic recovery plan and help to deliver a better future for all Australians.

**About the team**:
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) is the measurement science, services and regulatory division of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. As well as being Australia's link into international measurement activities including those of the Metre Treaty and OIML Convention, NMI is Australia's peak measurement body, responsible for maintaining and disseminating Australia's physical measurement standards, and providing a range of biological, chemical, legal, and physical measurement services including through the administration of the National Measurement Act. NMI has a national footprint, with research laboratories in Melbourne and Sydney. We value the different skills, knowledge and perspectives our staff bring. We’re committed to giving everyone an equal opportunity to participate, contribute and progress. Our values and behaviours centre on being, adaptable, innovative, accountable, strategic, inclusive and influential.

The roles are within the National Measurement Institute's Quality & Safety Team, which works alongside technical and scientific personnel to support them to safely deliver regulatory activities, scientific research and a wide variety of measurement based services such as chemical analyses, sample testing, calibration services, and equipment testing,. The Quality team is responsible for the continuous improvement and maintenance of the NMI Quality Management System, including to assure conformity with ISO 17025 and other applicable standards. The WHS team maintains the health and safety management system and supports a physically and psychologically safe working environment. The section provides guidance and advice to NMI staff in investigating and resolving quality non-conformances, safety incidents, and hazards.

**The opportunity**

**What’s in it for you?**

Do you want to work with leading national and international experts in their field? Do you want to play a part in ensuring that Australia's food is contaminant free, that our environment is properly remediated if it gets contaminated, and that our athletes are drug free? Or maybe you'd just like to set your watch against the same clock that the Australian Securities Exchange uses? Or maybe you'd like to keep our trade measurement inspectors safe, so that they can continue checking the accuracy of instruments as varied as fuel bowsers, grain silos, supermarket scales, and conveyor belts. NMI's wide range of nationally significant activities means you could fulfil any of these ambitions, and more. As well as providing a lot of opportunities for on the job learning, we're supporting the development of all staff through our new NMI Essentials development program.
- be able to work independently as well as part of a team
- have excellent communication and report writing skills.
- have a track record in ensuring quality and safety measures are upheld to the highest standards
- build and sustain excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholder.

**Experience and Qualifications**
- Experience with maintaining Quality Management Systems (QMS) or Work Health and Safety Management Systems (WHSMS) is highly desirable;
- Experience conducting internal audits and verifying implementation of corrective actions to address non-conformances is highly desirable;
- Tertiary level qualifications in a STEM field is highly desirable.

**What you will do**:

- Provide operational support and continuous improvement of QMS / WHSMS;
- Complete internal audits to verify implementation and conformance of quality and safety systems;
- Complete safety inspections in a laboratory environment to a high standard;
- Assist in the investigation of WHS incidents and review of quality and safety corrective actions
- Provide advice to NMI staff and managers in relation to safety or quality better practice
- Liaise with external stakeholders such as NATA and Comcare
- Have experience in enterprise risk management and project management;
- Maintain and build excellent working relationships with NMI’s stakeholders;
- Anticipate and respond to stakeholder needs and expectations;
- Have responsibility for the supervision and