About the company/role:- Food processing company
- Based in regional VIC (close to Mildura)
- Seeking a Safety Business Partner to provide strong safety leadership and compliance across large-scale operations
- Permanent opportunity
- Monday - Friday, normal business hours
- Must be flexible to do occasional night shifts
- Relocation assistance available!
Duties, but not limited to: Safety, Health & Sustainability
- Provide strategic and operational WHS advice to leaders.
- Champion a positive safety culture and continuous improvement mindset.
- Drive implementation of safety standards and best practice initiatives.
- Support environmental and sustainability objectives across operations.
Training, Engagement & Culture
- Manage employee and contractor inductions.
- Develop and deliver safety training programs.
- Maintain training records and competency matrices.
- Coach supervisors and leaders in effective safety leadership.
- Lead behavioural safety initiatives, safety observations and workplace inspections.
Risk Management & Compliance
- Lead risk assessments and review safe operating procedures.
- Develop and maintain safety documentation and systems.
- Ensure compliance with WHS legislation, Codes of Practice and environmental requirements.
- Manage audits, inspections and regulatory interactions where required.
Incident & Emergency Management
- Lead incident investigations and root cause analysis.
- Ensure corrective actions are implemented and completed.
- Monitor incident trends and drive preventative actions.
- Support emergency response planning, testing and training activities.
Systems, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Manage and improve safety management systems.
- Analyse safety and environmental performance data.
- Develop meaningful reports and dashboards to support decision-making.
- Drive innovation and digital improvements across safety processes.
Skills/experience required:- Tertiary education in OH&S
- Additional qualifications in risk management, enviromental or leadership are highly regarded
- 5+ years in safety leadership role within manufacturing or processing industry. Ideally within medium-high risk enviornments.
- Strong knowledge of WHS legislation and complaince requirements
- Strong experience conducting incident investigations, incident management, risk management and safety systems
- Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to build relationships across all staffing levels and backgrounds
- Excellent communication skills and has a practical solutions approach
Apply! If you think this could be the role for you then please apply now! Please send us a cover letter AND a detailed resume in WORD format (PDFs can be corrupted / not processed). Or, if you have any questions, please contact Linda on 03 9040 1630.With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.