About the role
The Fitzroy to Gladstone pipeline is being delivered as a 50/50 joint venture with partners BMD. This integral water supply project comprises of a 117 kilometre water pipeline, intake pump station, intermediate pump stations, reservoirs and a water treatment plant. With the ability to deliver 30 gigalitres per annum from the Fitzroy River to Gladstone, it will support long-term water security for the region as well as the emerging hydrogen industry in Queensland.
The position of Senior Health and Safety Advisor sits on this long-term project with future opportunities available within the wider McConnell Dowell business. This position will work on a 15/6 roster with site uplift applicable.
As the Senior Health and Safety Advisor, your responsibilities will include:
- Report on health and safety matters to the Health and Safety Manager and Construction Manager.
- Liaise with and advise construction personnel in regard to mitigation and management of risks and hazards. .
- Conduct audits on high risk activities for the top 5 risks on your project
- Collate, analyse and interpret health and safety data across the project and report to Project Manager.
- Complete health and safety investigations and develop reports on all incident investigations in line with client and McConnell Dowell reporting requirements.
- Review site risk registers, with identified controls for each construction execution plan and support Construction Risk Assessment Workshops as necessary.
- Provide ongoing health and safety advice to Supervisors, Contractors and site workers to eliminate or minimize hazards.
- Assist in reporting, investigating and implementing corrective and/or preventive actions resulting from identification of hazards, near miss incidents and work-related illness/injury.
- Work to achieve the project health and safety targets and building a strong health and safety culture.
About you - Minimum of five years’ operational experience in the application of health and safety management principles in the construction industry
- Prior experience working in a construction project environment, pipeline projects highly regarded.
- Self-sufficient, requiring minimal supervision.
- Have proficient skills in the Microsoft Office suite of programs and be computer literate.
- McConnell Dowell internal health and safety management training courses.
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About Us
McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people.
From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.
Why join us? The work you’ll do will have a tangible positive impact on people’s lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that. Because when you grow, we all grow.
McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but small enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.
So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now!
We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply. Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks. This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies 
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