Principal Project Lead

Job Number:

500850

The Details:

• Maximum Term Full Time 2 years | 9 day fortnight
• $129,747 pa + 12% super (level 8)
• 72.5 hour fortnight
• Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
• Location: Narangba

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Principal Project Officer - Work Health and Safety, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

Our health and safety priorities are to achieve cultural change, improve leadership capability, improve compliance and continuous improvement for systems and performance.

As our Principal Project Officer – Work Health and Safety, you'll lead the delivery of high-impact, multi-disciplinary projects that shape the future of safety across Council. From scoping to implementation, you'll manage complex initiatives that align with our five-year Health and Safety Strategy, in collaboration with cross-functional teams and by influencing key stakeholders.

About you

We're looking for H&S project and change expert, with experience working in medium to large organisations with complex, multi-distillery and multi-site operations.

You'll bring your experience providing specialist strategic advice to key stakeholders, delivering strategic planning, policy and project proposals, and negotiating positive project outcomes to deliver organisation wide benefits.

A Diploma in Work Health and Safety and current C class driver's licence are required.

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It's the same with your career.

We're the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia's newest city, we're building something that's never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we're focused on the vital work we do today. But we're also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here's what you'll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we're building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that's never been done before.
• Shape it. You'll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it's yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don't live here, you'll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You'll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service and Mates in Construction program.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at

Your Future City.

See it. Shape it. Live It.

City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to our Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.

Advertised:

10 Oct 2025

Applications close:

20 Oct :55