Health And Safety Trainee

About the role

McConnell Dowell Constructors are seeking a Health and Safety Trainee to join our team in Diggers Rest, working on the Diggers Rest level crossing removal project. 
  
McConnell Dowell is the constructor within the Western Program Alliance (WPA) which forms part of the Victorian State government’s Level Crossing Removal Program.  The Alliance brings together the Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP), Metro Trains Melbourne (MTM), V/Line, Arup and Mott MacDonald as design partners.
  
If you’re looking to join a company that encourages people to think outside the box, influence change through great ideas and continuous improvement, this role is ideal for you. 

As a Health and Safety Trainee, we’ll help you develop your capability in:

• Assisting in management of workplace safety issues
• Proficiency in Company and Industry systems and software
• Understanding site specific safety requirements
• Helping develop project specific Safety Management plans
• Research and preparing reports relating to Health and Safety issues, performance and improvement strategies
• Understanding risk management, including Safety in Design
• Knowledge of high risk activities, including Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS)
• Understanding effective Traffic Management
• Inspections, audits and investigations
• Industrial relations (IR)
• Delivering safety training
• Injury management

To be successful in the role you'll be an enthusiastic and adaptable individual who is looking to start their career in Health and Safety. If you can build effective and lasting relationships, have good communication skills, a knack for getting the workforce motivated, and can commit to completing a Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re dedicated to building a diverse workplace, so we also look at applicants with great transferable skills from similar industries.
  
If that's you, we encourage you to still register your interest as you may just be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities. 
 
Applications close 18 May 2024.

About Us

McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction
Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people. 
  
From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.
  
Why join us?
The work you’ll do will have a tangible positive impact on people’s lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that.  Because when you grow, we all grow.
  
McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but small enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.

So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now!
We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.
  
Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks.
  
This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.