Ehs Program Manager

**What to Expect**

The Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Program Manager - Electrical Safety is responsible for driving, influencing, and achieving EHS process excellence, regulatory compliance, and overall risk reduction throughout Commercial, Industrial and Utility Operations and Maintenance within the Pacific Region. This role will also support the development and execution of global electrical safety programs.

This position reports to the Commercial, O&M and Charging Sr EHS Manager and will ensure world-class electrical safety standards are met and sustained across operations. The role will interface with senior regional leadership, front-line operational staff, contracting partners, and other related teams within Tesla to drive and support continuous improvement throughout Tesla's design and deployment of energy storage systems and electric vehicle chargers.

This position is based in Melbourne, Australia and will require regional and international travel, given the geographical reach of the business.

**What You'll Do**
- Develop and maintain a partnership with and serve as a key advisor on EHS matters to Tesla Energy business operations leaders and stakeholders, associates, EHS members, and contracting partners.
- Serve as an Electrical Safety technical expert to identify critical risks, including legal compliance requirements and responsibilities in all phases of product deployment, operation, and service, including specific support in the safe design and engineering, installation and construction, commissioning and operations, and preventative maintenance and repair of energy products.
- Lead the development, implementation, and execution of short and long-term plans for Tesla's Electrical Safety program for Utility and Commercial Operations and Maintenance.
- Identification of operational gaps and creative solution facilitation, including identifying key stakeholders and driving innovative EHS solutions, electrical and otherwise, with cross-functional teams.
- Respond to and investigate EHS events and support the learning from events by determining causes and preventative actions with management and business teams.
- Drive the implementation of Human & Organisational Performance principles within operations and electrical incident investigations.
- Conduct proactive and zero-blame, learning-focused field observations to verify that work in progress meets EHS goals and document findings; review improvement opportunities with supervisors, operations, EHS and other stakeholders.
- Lead and support routine and ad hoc EHS meetings with stakeholders to communicate improvements and changes, event learnings, actions, and performance compared to company and department EHS goals.
- Be a visible model in the field and teach, train and coach business teams and support staff on fundamental EHS concepts and principles to reduce risk, and influence, inspire and empower business teams and staff to minimise the risk per our Tesla EHS vision, values and principles.

**What You'll Bring**
- Have a minimum of 5 years of progressive Environment, Health, and Safety experience in organisations at scale and an educational degree in an EHS-related field, engineering, or other related fields of study.
- Extensive experience working directly within the electric power generation, transmission, storage, or distribution industries. Detailed knowledge of the functionality of lithium-ion battery storage is preferred.
- Detailed knowledge and practical, hands-on experience in developing and deploying electrical safety programs under the requirements of AS3000.
- Demonstrate the ability to execute the role's responsibilities in a fast-paced and growing global organisation in a 'first-principles' approach.
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to positively interact with the full range of senior business management and regulators, frontline workers and 3rd party clients.
- Ability to execute complex, multidisciplinary projects and assignments and assume accountability for results, including experience in training and educating company employees in EHS initiatives.
- Able to problem-solve and develop short and long-term goals; Building relationships through collaboration both within and outside of EHS with the ability to influence and communicate effectively with all levels of management creatively and proactively.
- Experience and an understanding of EHS regulatory systems and policy within the region
- Expert in MS Office 365 Suite, including SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

**Desirable Qualifications**:

- **High Voltage Switching (preferred but not mandatory)**:

- ** Electrical license (preferred but not mandatory)