Health & Safety Business Partner - North Island

Meridian is Aotearoa's largest producer of renewable electricity, generating power from 100% renewable resources – wind, water, and sun, because we believe that’s the best way forward for our planet and our communities. We strive to deliver clean energy for a fairer and healthier world, helping reduce carbon emissions and supporting our communities. We also retail electricity to more than 400,000 homes, businesses and farms across New Zealand through our Meridian and Powershop brands.   

Mō te tūranga | What you’ll be doing    

We are looking for a Health and Safety Business Partner to partner with, and support, our North Island Generation Assets. We have a strong safety culture at Meridian, where everybody plays a role in ensuring a healthy and safe work environment, so the Health and Safety Business Partner must be a strong collaborator - supporting our teams to strengthen health and safety outcomes and promote a strong safety culture.  

Meridian has a diverse workforce and some pretty unique work environments. How we approach health and safety across all these different environments and groups of people is key and it’ll take someone special who can be gutsy enough to approach safety in different ways.  

As part of our Health and Safety team, you will provide technical advice on how best to manage H&S risks and ensure our H&S systems are the best they can be, but the most important aspect of the role will be engaging our people at all levels of the business in our health and safety programmes and supporting a culture of learning and continuously improving.   

Ngā painga ki a mātou | What we can offer    

We value work/life balance so our flexible work options make things easier for you and your whānau. We also offer: 

• an attractive and competitive salary package that’s reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from a number of partnerships 
• Southern Cross Healthcare - Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind   
• enhanced leave provisions: three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave 
• life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won’t need!) 
• enhanced KiwiSaver contributions 
• access to the Meridian employee share scheme 
• excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!  
• award winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it 
• employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts 
• a one-off $400 payment to support your work from home set-up (if needed) 

Ngā pukenga kei a koe mō tenei tūranga | What you’ll bring 

We are looking for a safety champion with the ability to be the enabler, the wingperson to our teams on the ground, the driver of change, the motivator, keeping safety simple in a complex world. You’ll be the coach who empowers frontline workers and leaders in owning health and safety outcomes.  

You’ll have an understanding of Health and Safety law, Safety II principles, regulations and other industry requirements, but more importantly you’ll be a strong relationship builder who can role their sleeves up and work alongside our people to achieve the best outcomes.   

While a relevant qualification in H&S would be great, we’re more interested in your experience and your ability to facilitate change, make improvements and influence stakeholders. We would also be open to someone from an operations and maintenance background who has a good understanding and knowledge of Health and Safety.   

You’ll need to be comfortable with regular travel to our sites across NZ, particularly in the North Island, averaging around two to three times per month.    

Tono mai ināianei tonu | Apply now   

If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!  

To view the full Position Description please click here. If applying through Seek, please email [email protected] for the full position description. We’re not necessarily looking for someone who ticks all the boxes (an elusive unicorn), so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every requirement in the PD, we strongly encourage you to apply!   

If you have any general enquiries, please email [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you. We're committed to being accessible and providing support if needed, please get in touch if there are any parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers).   

This role is North Island based, preferably Wellington or Palmerston North but not essential. 

Advertising closes on 9th July 2025 at 11:59pm (please note this is subject to change)