Senior Health & Safety Advisor

Are you an experienced health and safety professional looking for a new role?

This is an opportunity to harness your skillset across health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives with a dynamic and fast paced tourism and transport industry leader.

This role is hands-on and will regularly engage with our teams. There is plenty of room for development, and this year we are implementing ISO45001 standards with our accreditation planned for the end of 2024.

We are flexible on location between our offices in Masterton, Wellington or Palmerston North and regular travel to our various sites throughout New Zealand will also be required. This is not a work from home role as you will be a visible and approachable presence on site.

About the role:

• Be a champion of health, safety and wellbeing, working collaboratively with our teams across New Zealand;
• Advise and communicate on relevant policies, compliance standards and processes to ensure we are meeting our requirements and managing health and safety risks;
• Be a champion in the rollout of a new Health and Safety management software; become a super user and upskilling our teams on its use
• Maintain and coach our teams on our health and safety data and administrative processes (including ACC, incident reporting, injury management, chemical and emergency management) whilst identifying key trends to proactively find solutions and mitigate risk;
• Engage and partner with our teams and our health and safety reps to upskill on health and safety practices;
• Work closely with our wider group shared services teams to provide support with ongoing health and safety initiatives and projects.

To be considered for this role you will have:

• 5+ years previous experience as a health & safety advisor in an operational New Zealand environment, preferably in multiple work sites;
• A New Zealand Certificate in Workplace Health & Safety Practice (Level 4) as a minimum qualification and be ICAM trained
• Experience working at ISO45001 standards
• Excellent knowledge of health and safety legislative requirements, as well as a passion for workplace health, safety and wellbeing;
• The proven ability to develop strong partnerships and embed engagement strategies with operational teams; we need someone who can bring others along with our health & safety journey.
• Experience working with safety software systems and data, with an analytical mindset to identify trends to work towards preventative measures.

The following will be highly desirable

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage on all levels and build sustainable relationships with our diverse teams; Highly organised, able to deal with conflicting priorities and work under pressure;
• Solution and improvement focused to streamline processes and share innovative approaches to achieve best practice;
• Solid computer skills including Microsoft suite and SharePoint.

About us:

With almost 100 years in the industry, we are leaders in delivering high-quality transport and tourism services across Aotearoa, New Zealand. We are on a continued journey to excellence and employ over 2000 team members throughout the country. We are an award winning, family-owned Kiwi company and our team love what they do. We pride ourselves on offering quality transport solutions backed up by solid health, safety, and wellbeing principles.

We bring family values into our workforce and believe our people are the key to our success. We support ongoing training and development, offer flexible working arrangements, and can pass on great discounts!

Applications close 10 June 2024 but we will be reviewing candidates as they apply.

Applicants must have the permanent right to work in NZ.