Safety Specialist | Olympic Dam | Roxby Downs | Residential or FIFO ex Adelaide | 5/2/4/3
BHP
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Olympic Dam HSE team as a Safety Specialist. Reporting to the Safety Superintendent, this role involves collaborating with leaders across the business to provide coaching, technical expertise and advice on various aspects of safety and risk management.
This role will be offered as a 5/2/4/3 FIFO from Adelaide or 5/2 residential at Roxby Downs. Flexible work options will be considered.
In this role, you will:
- Analyse safety data and information sources to identify emerging safety trends and recommend safety improvement initiatives
- Proactively reach out to site personnel to coach individuals in site safety systems
- Actively attend various safety routines across site
- Conduct training sessions across various safety systems
- Establish and lead an investigation quality working group to maintain capability of investigation facilitators
- Monitor a Safety email inbox and respond to support operational needs
- Lead a safety field leadership improvement program and promote hazard awareness and identification.
- Support Olympic Dam’s Health and Safety Representative process.
About You
You will be a self-motivated professional with a solid record or accomplishment of achieving results through influence, coaching and mentoring.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Previous experience in a safety role
- A tertiary qualification, or equivalent industry experience managing safety
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence at multiple levels in an organisation
- Coaching and mentoring skills with a genuine desire to help people, achieve outcomes and support continuous improvement
- Experience with facilitating safety incident investigations
- Sound data analytical skills, and
- A current C class motor licence or equivalent Australian state motor vehicle licence.
About Our Process
At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.
To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people, BHP requires employees in Australia to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in line with BHP’s Covid Policy and any relevant State health directives. If you are applying for a role at BHP please consider this requirement when submitting your application. BHP will also adhere to any relevant health directives that may be made that affects our workforce.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a unique BHP employee share program.
At BHP, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage applications from women and Indigenous people. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.