Health and Safety Lead

1 week ago

Melbourne, Australia EnergyAustralia Full time

**Health and Safety Lead - Major Energy Projects**:
**Job no** 506947
- **Work type** Full Time Permanent
- **Location** Victoria
- **Categories** Energy, Health Safety Security Environment (HSSE)**About us**

The energy industry is undergoing a radical transformation. As one of Australia’s largest generators of electricity, we are stepping up to ‘light the way’ towards a cleaner energy future.

**About the role**

This is a newly created permanent opportunity for a H&S Lead, Manager or Specialist to join a tier 1 Energy company, where you will focus on providing strategic advice and leading the health and safety due diligence and operationalisation on various large scale construction projects across the EnergyAustralia business.

The role’s principal focus is ensuring health and safety are systematically managed to best practice standards from initial project inception through to execution phase, and operationalisation of the project.

You will achieve this by
- Developing health and safety specifications and management documents for construction and major project activities - ensuring health and safety is factored into project design
- Undertaking due diligence in relation to prospective tenderers, supporting onboarding and monitoring of construction contractors
- Providing health and safety specialist knowledge in relation to renewable technologies such as PV solar, large-scale batteries, electric vehicle chargers and pumped hydro
- Development of best practice contractor management strategies
- Ensuring our operations commence with documented safe systems of work
- Driving safety culture improvements in Energy Projects.

**Qualifications, skills and experience**
- Tertiary qualifications in Safety or related discipline, coupled with relevant heavy industrial or construction-type experience
- Contractor Management experience from engagement, onboarding through to monitoring
- Experience working with teams on large scale construction projects
- Experience liaising/negotiating with internal and external regulatory authorities
- Good knowledge of Energy technologies including advancements in renewable technologies
- Ability to implement legislative changes into the relevant safety management system and plans
- Ability to build and implement new safe systems of work.

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