Health & Safety Advisor

About Laing O'Rourke

Laing O’Rourke is a $6 billion international operation with 70 years of involvement in Australian construction and infrastructure, including nearly two decades under the Laing O’Rourke banner. The business delivers projects as diverse as the environments in which they are built, from high security military bases and major rail transport infrastructure projects, through to landmark buildings at the transport interface. Laing O’Rourke owns one of Australia’s largest plant and equipment hire company called Select Plant Australia. We know the right culture combined with purposeful technology will help us meet demand and deliver certainty for our clients. That’s the #powerofexperience.

About the role

We are currently seeking a Health & Safety Advisor to provide practical, hands-on Health & Safety support and collaboratively work with our project team at all levels of the business ensuring best practice standards are being met and exceeded. 

Key responsibilities

• Competently uses the Laing O’Rourke systems and is familiar with the content of the Safety Management System (SMS).
• Able to coordinate and organise basic courses.
• Collect, verify, collate and present statistics to identify trends in performance.
• Develop and deliver Prestart, toolbox talks and HS training
• Delivers and supports training and other HSE initiatives in order to facilitate consistent standards and share best practice.
• Provides basic HSE Management System (SMS) and contractual requirements coaching
• Able to complete the Laing O’Rourke Incident Investigation Form for all other incident investigations as per the SR Event Management and Reporting.
• Identifies and implements HSE improvement initiatives at a project level.
• Ensures robust and thorough reports are into IMPACT to enable accurate statistical reporting.
• Coordinate and carry out basic Health and Safety inspections
• Assists with Risk Management tool development (Prestart briefing /JHA, SWMS, PRA)
• Ensuring all appropriate actions are taken to implement the HSEMS, legislative and client contractual requirements
• Monitoring and conducting regular HSE governance  checks within the project sites including:
• Collective Insights
• Positive Investigations
• FSR’s
• SER’s
• reporting breaches
• recommending remedial actions
• Monitoring and reporting on the progress of appropriate corrective actions
• Supporting the implementation of corrective and preventive strategies
• Keeping abreast of HSE legislation, best practice, tools and tactics
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with field personnel

About you

• Certificate IV OHS and or working towards Graduate Certificate, Diploma OHS, Certificate in Risk management.
• Understands all the basic high risk activities involved in construction
• Understands basic environmental  risk management
• Able to read, understand and interpret the Health and Safety management system
• Able to plan and carry out safety inspections
• Able to coordinate and deliver Health and safety training
• Able to assist in the identification of significant factors affecting the project design and help with the design risk assessment.
• Able to use Microsoft Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook

Experience

• Working in high risk construction industry
• Demonstrated experience in coaching frontline delivery teams and management with HS issue and resolution
• Proactive management of site based hazards and risks.
• Able to complete Level 3 / 5 WHY incident investigations

Benefits

We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, an additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. Laing O’Rourke is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

Laing O'Rourke actively supports a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Download our Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan at https://www.laingorourke.com/company/diversity-and-inclusion

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.