Health & Safety Business Partner

Health & Safety Business Partner at Callaghan Innovation, Wellington

Wellington based with hybrid working, permanent and full time

An opportunity for 2 Health & Safety professionals to partner with the wider business to support the overall safety and well-being of employees, visitors and our workplace.

About the Role

We have two exciting positions based at our Gracefield site that will join our awesome Health and Safety team to help build long lasting working relationships and to coach and guide our leaders on best practice. This role is key within Health & Safety to build capability across the organisation to enable them to make informed Health and Safety decisions.

You will build relationships and expertise with our teams to develop understanding of key health and safety needs for each team and be a trusted source of information and advice. Adept at partnering others, you will work on longer term solutions with key stakeholders to change culture, processes and procedures within their complex environments

Your day-to-day will include, but is not limited to:

• Work with teams to perform Investigations and inspections
• Develop and apply critical risk framework to focus on critical controls
• Focus on worker engagement and embed with the teams to understand their work
• Work with People Experience in delivery of the Occupational work-related health plan for the organisation
• Assist in the design of products related to worker related health
• Coach and train other members of the H&S team in technical aspects
• Complete complex or sensitive risk assessments where necessary
• Design, develop and implement strategic initiatives that contribute to the overall health and safety objectives

About you

As an experienced H&S professional, you are passionate about developing and delivering strategies and business performance plans. You're a confident communicator and naturally a people-oriented person, eager to help and support others within Health and Safety. You will utilise your previous experience within a similar or senior H&S role to continuously improve in the new ways of working.

You'll also have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification, in H&S or a related discipline
• Extensive expertise in Health and safety, working with a range stakeholders
• Up to date understanding of H&S legislation and best practice, particularly around management of critical risks
• Worker related health knowledge
• Strong ability to influence others - Coaching and guidance
• Strong understanding of emergency management planning
• Ability to design and deliver strategic initiatives

Rukuhia te wāhi ngaro, hei maunga tātai whetū | Explore the unknown, reach for excellence Callaghan Innovation is New Zealand's innovation agency.

We activate innovation and help businesses grow faster for a better New Zealand. We partner with ambitious businesses of all sizes, and we provide them with a range of innovation and research and development services to suit each stage of their growth. Our staff - including more than 200 of New Zealand's leading scientists and engineers - empower innovators by connecting people, opportunities and networks, and providing tailored technical solutions, skills and capability development programmes, as well as grants and co-funding.

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