Health & Safety Advisor

About your role

IXOM is seeking a SHE Advisor to champion Safety, Health & Environment compliance across our regional sites in Australia. This newly created position plays a critical role in ensuring full alignment with national, state, and internal SHE requirements—covering documentation, auditing, and regulatory actions.

You'll work closely with site teams to elevate SHE performance through expert incident management, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions. As a key liaison with the Corporate SHE Team, you'll provide technical support and ensure timely delivery of compliance and regulatory initiatives.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone passionate about safety, continuous improvement, and driving operational excellence across diverse manufacturing environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage interactions and audits with national and state regulators (Worksafe, Fire Rescue, EPA, DMMIRS. etc) as well as community groups to ensure statutory license compliance
• Coordinate reporting and communication with to regulators and IXOM Corporate like Annual Performance Statement and NPI.
• Lead and co-ordinate incident investigations and write comprehensive reports.  Use Root Cause Analysis methodology to achieve best outcomes.
• Participate and assist, during IXOM SHE Corporate audits as well as those performed by regulators
• Monitor and assist regional sites on Critical Control Effectiveness Tests, Job Cycle Checks, Internal SHE Audits, Permit to Work,etc.
• Coordinate document compliance, ensuring work instructions are current and inc compliance with Corporate SHEMS system and national and state regulations
• Lead and facilitate Hazard Studies and Risk Assessments
• When a site is defined as a MHF by the regulators, assist on the preparation and reviews of the Safety Case.
• Technically asses risks in new processes / new chemicals introduced to he site site s(management of change) providing Safety focus to new initiatives - Advice sites on SHE & Compliance matters.
• Overseeing Permit to Work, JSERA, and Contractor management systems to ensure that all activities are properly risk assessed before execution
• Chair the MHF Working Group to ensure best practice sharing and standardization in order to achieve highest level of performance and compliance for those MHF sites with Regional Australia
• Coordinate relevant compliance and SHE training ensuring that these are including into IXOM Learning Management System
• Check and report on sites SHE & Compliance performance using existing IXOM SHE management systems and available software
• Organism rand check on compliance for relevant SHE & Compliance training program ensuring that they become part of IXOM Learning Management Systems

Who are we looking for?

• 5+ years plus experience in a chemical manufacturing environment or Compliance/SHE role for a manufacturing a organization
• Exposure to Major Hazard Facility. flammable liquid, EPA, DG, WHS and Planning regulations as well as ChlorAlkali handling, operation, transportation and storage
• Strong SHE background with proven experience, document and safety management systems, process and systems auditing, corrective actions, management of change.
• Demonstrated Compliance experience in interacting with regulators, preparing and maintaining Safety Cases, reporting like NPI and Annual Environment Performance, etc.
• operating license preparation and annual reporting, audits and related actions, Safety
• Relevant Tertiary Qualification in Engineering, Science or similar (required)
• Prepared to travel interstate to collaborate with teams and drive initiatives across multiple locations.

Benefits at IXOM

For a start, you'll work for a large global organisation, where you'll not only earn a competitive salary, but you'll also have access to an Employee Assistance Program, a recognition program, and a range of health and wellness benefits and discounts. 

Our wellbeing program is second to none, and we offer a range of education assistance and learning resources, as well as secondment and promotion opportunities to help you grow both personally and professionally. 

We support what's important to you by promoting workplace giving, diversity and providing volunteering leave, and, of course, we offer flexible working wherever possible. 

To Apply

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you

Our Process

At IXOM we are committed to employing individuals who align with our values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, and reference checks.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact our Talent Acquisition team.