Health & Safety Superintendent - Australian Region

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About the job

Our commitment to health and safety at Alcoa and creating a proactive safety culture is our number one priority. We are always looking for ways to improve controls, systems, and tools that will support us towards creating a safer environment for our people each and every day.

In this newly created role, as our Health & Safety Superintendent your primary purpose will be to support the effective implementation of safety management systems, strategies, and initiatives across our Australian locations to improve H&S critical risk control management.

Reporting into our Regional Health & Safety Manager and acting in their role as required, you will lead development initiatives, have a collaborative approach and further contribute to our operations by:
- Building relationships with senior management across all locations, mentoring and providing integrated technical and strategic advice to influence positive change.- Conducting analysis / interrogate governance systems to ensure continuous improvement is value adding.- Leading the H&S change management process including but not limited to major incident investigation.- Actively supporting location safety professionals through mentoring and coaching including coverage for Safety Manager's planned absences.- Providing operational safety guidance, diligence, consistency, and discipline to operational leaders.- Identifying and initiating localised Fatality Prevention initiatives and influence Location/Department Leaders to implement.

About you

To play a part in our ongoing success we are seeking someone with:
- Tertiary degree or post graduate qualifications in Health & Safety Management will be considered favourably.-
- Experience working within a similar capacity in a Senior H&S management role.- Expertise in leading audits, inspections and investigations and a background risk-based H&S management.- Proven track record of success in the implementation of continuous improvement strategies.- Industry exposure - Mining, Refining, Smelting and metal production technologies or similar manufacturing environment would be highly regarded.- A flexible and adaptable work approach - participating in after hour calls, H&S campaigns across the region and regular travel to locations will be as required.

Why Alcoa?

Our values - act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people, lead with courage - are at the foundation of everything we do.

At Alcoa we strive to create an inclusive workplace where employees can bring their whole selves to work regardless of their background. We know it starts and finishes with you, which is why our value 'care for people' is so important to us. It ensures not only your physical safety but also provides an inclusive and welcoming workplace for people from all walks of life, encouraging diversity of thought from each and every person.

As an Alcoa employee, you will embark on growth opportunities and can truly make a difference being part of an organisation that respects and considers flexibility whilst empowering you with stimulating and challenging work.

What's on offer?- Excellent remuneration package- Monthly Leisure Day- Benefits allowance- Performance related bonus (variable)- Industry leading superannuation- Employee Assistance Program- Novated car lease scheme- Industry leading parental leave scheme- Paid volunteer time- Employee groups including the Social Club, Alcoa Women's Network, EAGLE (Employees at Alcoa for Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and transgender Equality) and AWARE (Alcoans Working Actively for Racial-ethnic Equality)

Our Locations

Alcoa's Australian operations represent one of the world's largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting systems and add value to Australia's local, state and national economies at every stage. Our Australian operations support approximately 4,370 direct jobs including multiple entry talent pathways/programs, predominantly in regional Western Australia.

Supported by our head office in Booragoon and the Bindjareb Regional office in Pinjarra, our operations include: our wo