• Lead and embed fit for purpose solutions
• Achieve Health, Safety and Wellness cultural maturity
• Develop, promote, implement and support for best practice outcome
Play a pivotal role to develop, drive, lead, co-ordinate and facilitate the company’s health, safety and wellness program
About the role
The primary purpose of this position is to drive, lead, co-ordinate and facilitate the company’s health, safety and wellness programs to ensure a cultural maturity is achieved through attitudes and behaviours, as well as compliance with legislation and relevant regulations, codes of practice, etc. Ensuring fit for purpose systems and processes to achieve the business objectives and when benchmarked, meeting the requirements for best practice.
Duties
• Advocate and facilitate a health, safety and wellness culture through effective leadership
• Management of all health, safety and wellness programs
• Contractor Management – provide a collaborative environment to ensure sustainable compliance
• Management of accident/incident investigations, reporting, analysing and ensuring solutions are implemented that prevent further occurrences
• Hazard and Risk Management – ensure critical risks are identified and controlled, maintaining a central register to cover all situations and corrective actions in a proactive manner
• Injury Management – establish, monitor and maintain systems to encourage proactive early reporting and provide support for all regarding return to work/rehabilitation plans
• Provide accurate and timely reporting of data, ensuring key stakeholders are kept up to date with significant HSW issues
• Oversee health and wellbeing initiatives
• Coordinate and maintain regular contact with all Wellness providers, ensuring robust programs are in place
Skills and experience
The key to your success will be a strong and proven ability to understand culture and mindset in relation to developing a proactive safety culture.
You will provide the leadership and coaching required, to encourage ownership and accountability throughout the organisation. You will also ensure the vision of caring for each other is reinforced and demonstrated in all that is done.
You will also be able to:
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
• Ensure compliance through proactive risk management
• Lead and motivate the team to ensure optimal performance
• Create a high-performance focused culture through personal leadership, teamwork and the development of individual accountability
• Foster an open and positive environment, where employee input is encouraged
• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Demonstrated and practical working knowledge of legislation
• Experience as a lead auditor
• Analytical with an outcome focussed attitude
• Practical and credible personality with a strong ability to influence and motivate to do the right thing
About the company
Our client holds an ambition to provide world leading connectivity over its fibre broadband network to over 200,000 homes, businesses and schools within the Greater Christchurch and surrounding areas.
Playing a vital role as the city rebuilds, fibre connectivity sits at the heart of our client’s vision for a city built for the future.
Culture
Our client’s values underpin the delivery of their purpose, and their promise is to ensure that “Our Customers Never Stop Getting More Out of Life”.
How to apply
If you meet the above criteria, we welcome your application including your CV and cover letter in Word format via jobs@edenfx.co.nz
Applications are welcomed from NZ Citizens or those with a Residency or current Work Visa in place.
Candidates MUST meet the immigration eligibility criteria to apply for this role – we welcome applications from returning Kiwis and those with the right to work.
Not quite what you are looking for?
Please register for ongoing opportunities at www.edenfx.co.nz
All applications will be acknowledged electronically in the first instance. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Peden on 09 320 4431 quoting reference #3031.
