Health and Safety Manager Australia East and NZ

WORK LOCATION Open to candidate location within Australia/ NZ 

ROSTER: Monday to Friday

About the role

This role provides leadership support and management for Fortescue Future Industries Health and Safety Management requirements in Australia East and New Zealand. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Influence leadership to deliver outstanding health, safety and process safety performance.
• Set health, safety and process safety cultural leadership expectations and deliver the program to support this.
• Drive ownership of risk management with leadership, to ensure fatality risk and major hazards are identified and controlled.
• Challenge leadership to think about health, safety and process safety in ways that inspire a safer workplace.
• Promote mental health wellbeing and create awareness around psychosocial hazards.
• Provide guidance and create a local health, safety and process safety management system that complies with local legislative and Fortescue requirements.
• Develop and implement of Emergency Response Plans aligned to Fortescue requirements.
• Ensure incidents are reported, investigated and appropriate actions communicated and completed.
• Ensure workers for Fortescue are inducted and trained appropriately to complete their tasks safely and to legislative requirements for the region.
• Provide management over contractor activities to ensure they are working safely and looking after the health of their workers.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Tertiary Qualification in Health & Safety or related discipline
• +15 years’ experience in health & safety in heavy industry or resource industries.
• Experience in health and safety contractor management, project management or construction management is favourable.
• Some knowledge of Process Safety Engineering is essential.
• Experience in managing health and safety teams.
• Proven working experience in implementing Health & Safety initiatives or projects.
• Track record of mentoring senior leaders & managers towards achieving health and safety organizational objectives.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.
• Strong computer literacy skills.
• Experience in local legislation is considered essential.

Candidates must be able to bring a flexible mindset, challenge traditional thinking, and be prepared to work outside of their comfort zone.

Our values drive our culture and performance through a strong focus on safety, family and determination.

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work.

Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neuro diverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. 

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified