* Key safety role in global market leader.
* Experience in safety leadership roles within high-risk environments preferred.
* Located at Gosnells, WA with statewide responsibilities.
Holcim:
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Holcim are enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less.
About the opportunity:
Reporting to the National Health and Safety Manager – Aggregates and supporting the Holcim WA Aggregates business, this is a key regional safety leadership role supporting the region's quarrying, logistics and business operations functions. The role provides health and safety advisory, coaching and support services to regional managers, supervisors, and operations on health and safety matters, and leads the implementation of Holcim Global and Holcim Australia health and safety programs and initiatives across the region.
You will assist the business to safely deliver on their strategic and operational objectives, and contribute to the development of line management and supervisor health and safety capability. You will also assist key stakeholders understand, implement and utilise health and safety systems and processes, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Key accountabilities include:
* Promoting a strong safety culture, leading with care at all levels of the organisation.
* Building strong working relationships with key stakeholders, being a trusted partner from the front line to senior management teams.
* Maintaining a working knowledge of work health and safety legislation, industry trends and risk improvement opportunities relevant to the business and its risk profile.
* Prepare and present safety performance reports for senior, regional and local management.
* Liaise with regulatory bodies, clients, and other stakeholders on health and safety matters.
* Leading, assisting or advising line management in the safety risk management process including hazard identification, risk assessment, control design, and monitoring of effectiveness of key risk controls.
* Leading or supporting the implementation and verification of the Holcim Critical Risk Control framework, and associated safety improvement projects.
* Leading or supporting line management with incident investigations.
* Leading or assisting in health and safety audits against Holcim safety management system requirements, relevant legislation and standards.
* Monitoring, measuring, tracking and reporting on key health and safety related actions arising from audits, investigations, or health & safety related improvement initiatives.
* Supporting management in active health and safety consultation across the business unit.
The role requires regular site visits to engage with, advise, coach and support operations on health and safety matters.
To be successful in this role you will need:
* Degree qualifications in health and safety, or equivalent.
* +5 years experience in a senior safety advisory or safety leadership role, preferably within the cement, quarrying, mining, construction or industrial manufacturing sectors.
* Strong influencing abilities and capability to work with a broad range of stakeholders including frontline operations, management and regulators.
* Demonstrated experience in deploying health and safety strategies, plans, systems and processes with a focus on critical risk management and continuous improvement.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas, and engage productively with a range of audiences.
* Relevant experience in safety audits, leading incident investigations and reporting on safety related matters.
* Strong knowledge of relevant work health & safety legislation and industry practices.
* Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels, and with all functions.
* Relevant experience with the use of incident, audit and risk IT platforms.
* Intermediate proficiency in Google suite preferred.
This is an outstanding opportunity to grow your career within our world leading business.
Why Holcim?
At Holcim we offer an inclusive environment, where our people feel comfortable bringing their authentic self to work. We offer a high-performance workplace empowering problem solvers, creative thinkers and innovators to seek combined perspectives and voice opportunities to go further and faster. Our workplace is a safe environment where individuals can be themselves and where we promote a diverse workforce. We are an equal opportunities employer, making no distinction on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. People are treated fairly at work - respecting and supporting human rights and non-discrimination.
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Candidates must hold valid Australian work rights with no restrictions on employment duration or hours.
We are dedicated to improving employment outcomes and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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