General Manager – Health, Safety, Environment and Quality

Piacentini & Son – About Us

Piacentini & Son is an earthmoving and mining contractor specialising in bulk earthworks, supply of mobile mining and earthmoving equipment, road haulage and mining rehabilitation services. We have over 1000 employees around Australia with a head office in Bunbury, Western Australia. Piacentini & Son has a rich 80-year history of operations throughout Australia, supporting the mining and resources sectors with mining and earthmoving services. 

About the Opportunity 

We are seeking a General Manager – Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) based in our Head Office in Bunbury, WA with periodic travel to our sites across WA and SA. Reporting to the CEO, this role provides executive oversight to the HSEQ function across the Company.

To be successful in this role, you will have significant experience in the design and implementation of strategies for safety, health and wellbeing in a large matrixed organisation, ideally in the industrial, mining or resources sector. Your advanced strategic leadership and strong communication skills, along with the ability to influence stakeholders, ensures you deliver strong HSEQ outcomes aligned to Piacentini HSEQ goals.

Key Accountabilities

• Establish and govern risk-based health, safety and environmental strategies in line with operational and legislative requirements.
• Drive a positive companywide safety culture, introducing continuous improvement initiatives that improve health, safety and wellbeing outcomes for our people. 
• Establish effective interactions with Piacentini Board, Executive leadership, site leadership and other internal and external stakeholders. 
• Manage a remote team of professionals across health, safety, environment and quality as well as local leadership of the injury management and workers compensation functions.
• Provide senior level support should a significant safety incident occur including oversight or sign-off of investigations as appropriate. 
• Manage the audit and compliance schedules for Australian Standards accreditation. Oversight and reporting on compliance to corrective actions. 

About You  

• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety or related discipline or equivalent experience
• 7+ years’ experience in a senior HSEQ leadership role, ideally within the industrial services, mining or resources contracting industries. 
• Team leadership experience with experience in managing a HSEQ function in a matrixed environment including management of team members based remotely.
• Strong understanding of HSEQ regulations and best practices covering OH&S, Injury Management, Risk Management and Quality Assurance. 
• Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the business, and with customers and industry or regulatory organisations.

About the Offer  

• Competitive Salary with Salary Packaging and Novated Lease options  
• Great benefits including Corporate HBF private health discount, discounted hotel stays and travel incentives 
• Work-life balance – be at home every night in the picturesque Southwest WA, and live the coastal lifestyle 
• Employee Assistance Program for all employees and immediate family 
• Be part of an agile organisation with a real opportunity to make a difference 
• Family owned and operated business from our offices based in Bunbury, WA. 

Apply 

We invite you to apply and join our team through the link in Seek. 

More information or questions?

Please contact the Recruitment team for a confidential discussion to talk more about the opportunity on 08 9780 8900 or email [email protected]. 

Piacentini & Son are an Equal Opportunities employer and committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, women, young & mature age workers, the LGBTQI+ community.

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