HSEQ Advisor

About Us:

The Eptec Group is Australasia’s leading corrosion mitigation and protection company specialising in all aspects of corrosion prevention. Our Total Asset Protection solutions and services include: Corrosion management; Blasting, painting and remediation of concrete and steel structures; Lining and waterproofing; Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Structural Strengthening; Cathodic Protection (CP); and Pipeline Electrical Hazard Assessments. 

Eptec delivers across a diverse range of industry sectors, including naval, defence, marine, transport and infrastructure.  Recent projects of the Eptec Group include the Bennelong Apartments in Sydney, Warragamba Dam Pipeline, Brisbane X-River Rail, Sydney Metro Trains, HMAS Choules, and Old Murray Bridge in SA. 

About the role:

We are currently on the lookout for a confident HSEQ Adviser to join our Defence Solutions team based out of our ASC South Office in Osborne, SA. You will support our operational teams and gain exposure and experience working across various ship projects.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that sound health, safety, environment, and quality practices are identified, documented, and fully aligned to the key business drivers. You will partner with the business, providing valuable input to site teams to ensure these practices are understood and implemented. 

The successful candidate will also support and enable our teams to maintain certifications in accordance with ISO9001, 14001, 45001; ensuring that statutory and contractual obligations in managing all HSEQ risks are met.  An integral part of this role will also be to work on preparation, implementation, and monitoring of Federal Safety Commissioner (FSC) requirements for Eptec's journey towards gaining FSC accreditation.   

Key Responsibilities include:

• Influencing and negotiating with stakeholders to achieve cultural change, with the main objective to achieve a Zero Harm work environment, and participate and provide advice in Zero Harm Committee meetings.


• Guide employees to ensure that they report all incidents, injuries, illnesses, near misses, hazardous conditions, emergencies, etc., to their supervisor.


• Facilitate inductions, training, and competency assessments of employees and assist in assessing training needs of all personnel.


• Conduct regular toolbox meetings and associated methods of communication, ensuring safety talks and walks are a regular occurrence.


• Participate in safe workplace reviews, including hazard identification, assessment, control, and monitoring.


• Audit Zero Harm policies, systems, and standards, recommend improvements to management, and coordinate and develop process improvements and standard work methodologies to drive continuous improvement and process stability.


• Conduct incident management processes, including investigations and sustainable preventative and corrective action monitoring and implementation.


• Work with management and their teams to assist in identifying suitable work for injured employees.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ practical experience in a similar role preferably gained from the Construction and/or Infrastructure or Defence sectors, having worked in a medium multi-divisional organisation.


• Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health & Safety.


• Return to Work experience and or Coordinator Certificate / experience and Internal Auditing and or Audit certification highly desirable.


• Experience working with (implementing & monitoring compliance) HSE management systems, in particular ISO9001/14001/45001, highly desirable.


• Experience in HSE system implementation, preparation for audits, in particular FSC accreditation, is highly desirable, along with experience working for an FSC certified company.


• Certificate IV Training and Assessment highly desirable, and incident investigation training (ICAM and or equivalent).


• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the proven ability to negotiate, facilitate conflict resolution and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders.


• A current driver’s license.


• Australian Citizen 

Join a dynamic and diverse team

At Eptec, our values foster a collaborative, caring, performance-focused culture that supports a safe and secure working environment for all our teams, stakeholders and clients.  We are committed to a workplace culture that strongly supports diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from across the community.

We are keen to invest in individuals with the right attitude, who want to progress their career.  We will support the successful candidate with training and development, and we provide a great working environment, with highly competitive remuneration.

The successful candidate will be required to pass a pre-employment process including a medical and police check.

To find out more about EPTEC please view our website at: www.eptec.com.au 

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