H&S Senior Advisor
- Promote workplace health and safety through field engagement and coaching.
- Assist with incident investigations and ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
- Build positive working relationships with stakeholders to strengthen safety performance.
Health & Safety Senior Advisor (Renewable Energy)
Duration: 12 months (subject for extension)
Site location: Port Hedland
Roster: 8:6 FIFO
Job summary
The successful candidate will play a key role in promoting workplace health and safety through field engagement, coaching, mentoring, risk management, assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will provide practical advice and support to operational teams, assist with investigations, review safety documentation, conduct audits, and ensure compliance with relevant health and safety standards and legislative requirements.
Responsibilities
- Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the Health & Safety Management System.
- Provide health and safety advice to operational leaders to support achievement of safety objectives and performance targets.
- Coach and mentor employees and contractors to build capability and confidence in health and safety compliance, risk management, and assurance activities.
- Promote proactive hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation across operational activities.
- Assist with incident investigations, root cause analysis, and the implementation of corrective actions.
- Participate in contractor management processes and support contractor compliance with site requirements.
- Conduct workplace inspections, field interactions, audits, and verification activities.
- Review safety documentation and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
- Support the development and delivery of health and safety initiatives, campaigns, and awareness programs.
- Contribute to major hazard management activities and critical risk control verification programs.
- Prepare and maintain safety reports, records, and performance metrics.
- Build positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to strengthen safety performance and culture.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of Health & Safety experience within construction, mining, processing, oil & gas, heavy industry, or related operational environments.
- Demonstrated experience in contractor management and workplace risk management.
- Strong understanding of Health & Safety Management Systems and relevant standards, including ISO 45001.
- Sound knowledge of workplace health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements.
- Experience conducting incident investigations and implementing corrective actions.
- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, coaching, and influencing skills.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across all levels of an organisation.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities within operational environments.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Current driver's licence.
- Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health & Safety or a related discipline.
- ICAM or equivalent Incident Investigation qualification.
- Internal Auditor qualification in Health & Safety Management Systems.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to louis.tham@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Louis at +61 (08) 6245 0671 for more information.
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