Health and Safety Leader
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Occupational Health & Safety (Human Resources & Recruitment)
2IC Leadership Health & Safety role for the business, partnering across all areas, as a coach and specialist and leading a mid sized team
Be acknowledged for your experience with a competitive package and broad divisional scope, where People come first
CBD Offices and a flexible/ outcomes focused working environment
About the Organisation:
Join this established and forward thinking business and step into a role with huge scope, ownership, influence and where you will continue to grow and enhance health, safety and wellbeing thinking, actions and culture, with a focus on their people and ultimately ensuring a great workplace. This is a culture where there is plenty of room to evolve, grow, move around and you will work with exceptional commercial minds and within a culture that flexes to allow you to do your best work!
This Senior Health and Safety Lead will report direct to the Head of HSW and will coordinate health & safety programs, provide advice and support on health & safety issues, monitor risks and advise staff on how to eliminate including promoting the maintenance of a safe working environment, which promotes Health, Safety and Wellbeing in all aspects and delivery.
You will ensure strong safety policies and procedures and thinking drives positive actions, all levels of the organisation. You will review and continue to evolve an existing people and safety strategy,which focuses on enhancing employee safety and wellbeing, developing people, driving performance and leading change through mentoring and coaching. Overall, fostering a platform of growth, inspiring and developing people to reach their potential at work.
Success in this role will depend on your ability to:
Develop, implement and evaluate effective interventions to build capability in health and safety
Ensure regulatory compliance; all required plans and processes are in place and are regularly reviewed
Oversee an audit programme across all parties in scope and ensure remedial actions are taken to lift all health and safety systems beyond compliance level.
Work across the business to influence and improve effectiveness of health and safety focus and incorporating work done to date around wellbeing and psychosocial risk
Collaborate and build relationships with other parts of the group and stay connected across industry, with a keen interest in trends, thinking and NZ/ global HSW methodologies
Identify and implement initiatives to improve, maintain, evolve and create a cutting edge/ market leading safety culture, which is business-led and supported/ informed through your specialist knowledge and influence.
About You:
Qualifications & Experience
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Health & Safety/ OSH
Experience:
• Strong technical health and safety knowledge and experience
• 5 - 8 years within large/ senior Health & Safety Business Partner roles and ideally Management HSW roles, leading people
• Experience in presenting and facilitating discussions at a senior level, including Health and Safety reporting
• Proven experience working in a collective and collaborative leadership environment
• Proven ability to operate within strong compliance environments
Skills:
Ability to contribute to the strategic direction of Health, Safety & Wellbeing and step up, as needed in your 2IC capacity at any stage
Strong relationship building ability and open communication style, with the ability to challenge in a positive way
A high level of energy and motivation with a desire to achieve outcomes
Ability to achieve outcomes by influencing others and with a coaching and learning agile approach
Ability to tell stories, analyse data and create meaningful insights that you will then deliver in a way that people can relate to and will drive positive business impact
In Return:
You will report to a leader who will acknowledge you as the expert you are, will provide you every opportunity to lead in your role and support you at Executive level, as needed.
You will work cross functionally across the organisation, with a customer emphasis and a commercially successful business, who genuinely care about people.
Enjoy the freedom to own your role , love what you do and to represent the business in all things HSW, rewarded for your energy, knowledge and expertise with a competitive salary and the respect you deserve and work with talented, commercial and people focused colleagues and leaders, who genuinely care about their people and understand that they drive all tangible success.
Apply Now:
Ideally, “Apply Now” via Seek or for a conversation prior to your application, contact Michelle & Wayne - Directors on 021 300 546 or email: [email protected]
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