Overview

  • Senior Health and Safety Advisor required
  • Seeking experience within transport and facilities
  • Multi-site – collaborative, influencing, coaching, mentoring role

Our client is seeking a proactive and engaging Health and Safety Advisor with a strong ability to engage at site level with key stakeholders/PCBU’s

The company

Our client is responsible for the delivery of multi-million dollar transportation and facility projects within Auckland, shaping the City’s future – collaborating to ensure best practice initiatives and complex and critical projects are delivered safely within their Transport and Facilities team.

The role

This position will look after multiple stakeholders and projects within the Auckland region.  Candidates must have strong Transportation/Trucking/Rail Safety experience.

Reporting to the Health and Safety Manager, this role offers long term scope for development and growth, and is a relationship focused role, supporting health, safety and wellbeing initiatives across the transportation portfolios.

You will be enhancing safety capability through targeted training, best practice system development and implementation, strongly focussed on Health and wellbeing and supporting all stakeholders.

Duties

  • Manage, facilitate and promote the development, maintenance and implementation of the company’s health and safety management systems
  • Audit and monitor to ensure compliance to legislation and company procedures
  • Provide specialist advice and information to all stakeholders
  • Manage from a best practice – risk perspective
  • Provide a high level of reporting for trends, planning and performance measures
  • Promote a positive safety behavioural culture

Skills and experience required:

  • Excellent health and safety knowledge and experience within an infrastructure/construction environment
  • Preference will be given to candidates with a relevant tertiary qualification and Site Safe training, although your experience will be taken into account
  • Comprehensive knowledge of legislation
  • Great business acumen and strong ability to work well within a vibrant team environment
  • Strength in the monitoring and auditing area
  • Forward thinking, proactive and high levels of energy
  • A truly effective communication style and the ability to influence at all levels
  • Outcome focussed, with a strong ability to problem solve
  • Great time management skills
  • Confident communicator with excellent relationship building skills
  • Proven ability to influence at all levels
  • Advanced incident/accident investigation skills
  • Lead from the front to provide safety visibility, engagement and participation

Apply:

If you meet the above criteria, we welcome your application including your CV and cover letter in Word format via apply button.

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Candidates must have the right to work in New Zealand to apply for this role.

All applications will be acknowledged electronically in the first instance. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Peden on 09 424 8367 quoting reference #2674.