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- Full time ongoing opportunity available
- Location: Willing to consider candidates across all NSW locations, with a focus on Maitland, Wollongong, Orange, Lithgow, Armidale, or Dubbo.
- Salary from $195k pa to $226k pa plus super
- Accelerate your career without leaving town
The NSW Resources Regulator (part of the Mining, Exploration & Geoscience group) are looking for a Manager of Emergency Management to join the team.
About the role:
As Manager of Emergency Management, you’ll exercise statutory and administrative responsibilities as an Inspector to improve the health and safety performance at mines and petroleum sites, with a primary focus on emergency planning and response capabilities.
Having a strong emphasis on fostering co-operative and consultative relationships between emergency planning and response stakeholders, you’ll work to ensure Emergency Management plans at mines and petroleum sites are interoperable with the NSW state Emergency Management arrangements.
Managing the team delivering state-wide programs within this function, and general team administration, you’ll also focus on monitoring and enforcing compliance with relevant legislation through site inspections, assessments and investigations, along with promoting and supporting education and training on emergency response related matters.
About You:
We’re looking for someone with:
- Demonstrated experience managing or assessing the risks and controls associated with the storage and use of manifest quantities of hazardous chemicals.
- Experience managing response to hazardous chemical incidents.
- Experience as a level 3 Incident controller and Operations officer.
- Experience developing and conducting incident management training for large scale multi agency incidents.
- Experience working in incident management teams utilising the AIIMS framework and applying the NSW EMPLAN and subordinate plans.
- Experience working within the NSW Emergency Management framework.
Essential requirements:
- Tertiary qualifications in Emergency Management, health and safety or relevant mining or engineering qualifications.
- The ability to work in above and underground mines.
- Required to be on call for responses outside normal business hours and perform planned and unplanned work across the state as required, involving travel away from home.
- Hold and maintain a current Class C driver licence.
Sounds interesting?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply with an (ideally no more than one-page) cover letter outlining your suitability and interest in this role, with your resume (ideally no more than three pages) by 11.55pm Thursday 30 May 2024.
For further information about the role please contact Dwaine Jones, A/Director Technical Operations Mine Safety via ************@regional.nsw.gov.au or 0447 800 ***. You can also view the role description.
If you require adjustments in completing your application, interviewing, completing any pre- employment testing, or otherwise participating in the recruitment process, please let us know so we can assist. Send an email to ***************@regional.nsw.gov.au and a member of the team will contact you for a confidential discussion.
Please note:
Compliance with pre-employment probity screening is mandatory for all roles within MEG and is a condition of engagement.
Appointment and ongoing assignment is subject to the satisfactory participation in ongoing health screening.
A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary roles of the same role or role type that may become available for filling over the next eighteen months.
About the Department of Regional NSW
Diversity and inclusion are core values of the Department of Regional NSW. The Department of Regional NSW is a workplace where everyone is able to contribute and participate to their full potential, and we are proud to have a team that reflects the richness and complexity of the regional NSW communities we serve.
The Department of Regional NSW (DRNSW) is the department focussed on protecting and growing primary industries, supporting sustainable land management, overseeing the state’s mineral, mining resources, and ensuring that government investment supports strong regional communities and economies. DRNSW brings together the Department of Primary Industries; Local Land Services; Mining, Exploration and Geoscience; Regional Development; the Regional Growth NSW Development Corporation; NSW Public Works and Soil Conservation Service.
We have nearly 5,000 employees, with almost 80 per cent of us living and working in regional NSW.
