Consultant

Are you a highly motivated, skilled safety consulting professional, looking to take the next step in your career? Driven to succeed as part of a high-performing team of people you enjoy working with? Do you have a great base of practical and technical skills to complement your consulting experience? Would you like to support a range of diverse, high impact projects for high-profile clients? Want to enjoy competitive remuneration with opportunities to be rewarded for performance?

If these resonate – this role could be for you Come join the team that are improving health, safety and wellbeing across Government and private sector workplaces, throughout QLD and beyond.

About us:

Work Science, one of Australia's highly regarded safety and risk management consultancies is seeking a Health & Safety consultant to support the delivery of recent new project wins.

We love seeing our clients succeed. Specifically, enhancing wellbeing, reducing injuries and illness, growing their peoples' capability, or delivering a winning strategy. We achieve this by considering the evidence base, developing contextual strategies, showing leadership, good management, thoughtful planning and disciplined implementation.

Our clients include large Australian corporations, Commonwealth & State Departments, property owners and managers, infrastructure agencies, construction companies, manufacturers and entertainment providers. Our reputation for solving complex H&S problems means we need a bright spark to join our growing Brisbane team.

About the role:

Note: This is a hybrid role combining a primary office base in Brisbane, with flexibility to work from home in accordance with deliverables and coordination with your manager.

In this client-facing role, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing clients with technical advice, audits, and incident investigations – on health, safety, and risk
• Delivering client reports and participating in Work Science Quality Assurance processes
• Drafting management system and other types of documentation
• Co-facilitating and scribing for client training and workshops
• Supporting business development through research, collateral development etc
• Pursuing business opportunities through proactive client engagement
• Other tasks and work as directed by Work Science management

About you:

Desirable Qualifications and experience

• Degree level qualification in a WHS or related field
• 1 - 2 years' experience delighting your clients, colleagues and onlookers in a WHS role
• WHS lead auditor qualification desirable
• Construction and/or property risk experience desirable
• Data analytics experience desirable

Skills and capabilities

• Tenacious, resourceful and willing to work outside comfort zones to learn and grow
• Strong technical writing and systems documentation skills with strong attention to detail
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Word and Excel
• Curious, inquisitive, adaptable to change and capable to thrive in a commercial consulting environment
• Team player, jumps in to help others
• Pragmatic problem solver

What's in it for you?

In this role, you will:

• Make a meaningful impact that leads to real change in our client organisations.
• Enjoy competitive compensation tied to your commercial success.
• Access opportunities to learn and develop skills to level-up your career, including from highly experienced colleagues and subject matter experts.
• Enjoy a positive, inclusive and welcoming workplace culture, where you're encouraged to grow and excel, and performance is celebrated.
• Collaborate with outstanding individuals both within our team and in client organisations.
• Gain exposure to a diverse variety of health and safety work.
• Benefit from the support of a seasoned and successful leadership team.

Equal Opportunity

Work Science's diverse team is a core strength we are determined to maintain and enhance. We encourage all applicants who meet the above job description to apply.

Next steps

If these words resonate with you, and you're ready to take the next step in your career, please submit your up-to-date CV.

If you have any questions about the role or how to apply, you're welcome to email our team at or call during business hours on WORK

We look forward to hearing from you