Health And Safety Advisor

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About the role

Our Lake Vermont Project situated outside of Dysart, in Central Queensland is currently seeking a Health and Safety Advisor to work within our collaborative Health, Safety and Training team working an 8/6 roster. This project is one of Thiess’ largest and longest running projects. 

As our next Safety Advisor - Health Specialist, your focus will mainly target the occupational health aspects of the workplace. Being the health specialist of our Health and Safety team, you will be reporting to the Senior Health and Safety Advisor. You will be responsible for providing coordination and technical advice in relation to occupational health injury and hygiene matters. These may include wellness programs, coordination of hygiene monitoring, drug and alcohol systems, incident reporting and investigations, risk assessments, and hazardous substances.

The role will primarily assist in determining and coordinating injury treatment and managing workplace injury claims inclusive of confidential health records. A key extension of the role is to support the continual improvement of the site's Safety and Health Management System to mitigate potential risks. This is a dynamic, hands-on role where flexibility and the ability to adapt quickly are key to your success.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Play a pivotal role in early intervention and the application of the injury management process
• Coordinate and manage incident reporting inclusive work and non-work-related injury rehabilitation and illness
• Align the Health and injury management processes with company policies and procedures including workplace insurance claims.
• Assist Supervisors and employees with the Return-to-Work process by developing proactive and timely strategies including individual health management plans
• Coordinate site drug and alcohol screening
• Assist with the coordination of the hygiene exposure monitoring program with the site service provider
• Assist in the development and delivery of health promotion initiatives for Lake Vermont workforce
• Assist with the management of site coal board medicals
• Engage and actively assist with the continual improvement of the site Safety and Health Management System to address site risks and key occupational hazards.
• Drive a strong safety culture and liaise with other departments to ensure the achievement of the site's safety objectives
• Champion all applicable Health and Safety Laws, Regulations and statutory obligations at all times.
• Complete department reporting for internal and external stakeholders including  statutory compliance

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing, Physiotherapy or Allied Health
• A genuine passion for the health, safety, and risk reduction for our front-line personnel 
• Experience in acute injury management and rehabilitation coordination
• Experience in drug and alcohol screening
• Ability to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong computer skills
• Willingness to extend your skill base to include and facilitate the site Risk Management and Investigation processes
• Desirable but not essential;
• Previous site-based experience
• Accredited Return to Work Coordinator
• ICAM Investigations
• The ability to facilitate risk assessments 

Benefits

• Permanent full-time position
• 8/6 lifestyle roster 
• Site Allowance
• Eligible for Annual Remuneration Review and Discretionary Bonus'
• Individual flexibility travel arrangements on offer - FIFO from Brisbane, travel allowance for DIDO employees or regional housing allowance for local living (Dysart)
• Thiess’ commitment to ongoing training & development 
• Health & wellbeing rewards program through AIA Vitality
• Salary continuance insurance
• Salary sacrifice options – novated leasing  
• Range of corporate discounts including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products

About us

Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.

The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.

At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.

We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.

We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.

We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered.

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Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at ******@thiess.com