Health & Wellbeing Occupational Hygienist

• Strategic, specialist role influencing health, hygiene and wellbeing across Northern Australia Operations


• FIFO Townsville to Phosphate Hill


• 4/3 Roster (Monday to Thursday)

At Southern Cross Fertilizers, our people vision is to unlock our people capability and culture to create safe, inclusive and high performing teams on the ground.

The Role

The Occupational Hygiene, Health & Wellbeing Specialist leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of occupational health, hygiene, and wellbeing systems across Northern Australia Operations. The role drives strategic programs for injury management, fitness for work, health surveillance, and wellbeing, while identifying, evaluating, and controlling occupational hazards to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and a safe, healthy workplace.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead strategic and proactive programs for injury management, fitness for work, health surveillance, and wellbeing across Northern Australia Operations


• Identify, evaluate, and control occupational health hazards and exposures


• Design and execute occupational hygiene sampling and exposure monitoring programs


• Interpret data from NATA-accredited laboratories to assess compliance with workplace exposure standards


• Manage complex workers’ compensation and injury management cases, including psychosocial risks


• Provide expert advice and coaching to leaders, HR, and HSEC teams

What you’ll bring

• You must be committed to positively contributing to our safe, inclusive and high-performance culture


• Bachelor’s degree in occupational hygiene, industrial hygiene, or similar


• Formal qualifications in personal injury management


• Certified Occupational Hygienist, or ability to obtain certification (highly desirable)


• Strong experience in occupational hygiene, injury management, and health program delivery within complex operational environments

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn’t align 100%, we still want to hear from you.

Benefits to you

• We are a team focused on safety, inclusion and high performance


• 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary carer, 3 weeks for secondary carer


• Superannuation paid on unpaid parental leave, up to 12 months


• Salary packaging options


• Confidential employee assistance program


• Mental Health and Well-being program


• Various corporate discount programs


• Workplace giving charitable scheme


• Opportunities for career progression through succession planning and development reviews

The Site

This role is based at Phosphate Hill, with frequent travel to Mount Isa, Townsville Port and office facilities.

About Us

Southern Cross Fertilisers has a long and proud heritage in Australian agriculture. Our people, products and services support farming communities and feed millions. We are Australian. We are resilient, diverse, invested and proud. We believe in science and innovation to maximise soil potential. 

Working at Southern Cross Fertilisers provides the opportunity to progress your career. We are experts in the sector and maintain an unrelenting focus on Zero Harm. With a diverse leadership, we add value for our customers through manufacturing excellence, innovation and world class services. 

Leveraging diversity through inclusion

At Dyno Nobel Limited, we believe in the strength of diversity and inclusivity, fostering an environment that is safe, equitable, and embraces differences to enhance performance. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and identities and are committed to supporting our employees to thrive both professionally and personally.

About our process

Our recruitment process typically involves a Teams or face-to-face interview, reference checks, and a medical check. It may also include a site visit and psychometric testing.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring a welcoming experience for all candidates. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected].

Please note: This email is for enquiries only; applications must be submitted via the job advertisement.