Risk & Security Manager - Westfield Newmarket

Our Story

Scentre Group is the owner and operator of 42 Westfield living centres in Australia and New Zealand; partnering with the world’s leading retail and luxury brands to create a unique shopping and leisure experience for our customers. A career with us fosters the chance to be a part of a company that is transforming the digital and physical retail space.

Our Purpose is creating extraordinary places, connecting and enriching communities. Our Plan is to create the places more people choose to come, more often for longer. Our Ambition is to grow by becoming essential to people and communities and the businesses that interact with them.

Your opportunity

We have an opening within our Westfield Newmarket team for an experienced Risk & Security Manager.  This is a varied role, with a key focus on leading and directing the Centre security and risk management functions, providing the optimal level of security and safety for our employees, contractors, retailers and customers.

Day to day, you’ll be responsible for:

• Proactively planning and delivering priorities from our Safety Framework, providing a safe and secure environment that exceeds customer expectations, whilst promoting safety as an integral part of the customer experience.
• Proactive management, reporting, and response to hazard identification, incidents, emergencies, near misses and claims.
• Manage safety audits and inspection programs.
• Manage compliance with all security and health and safety policies, procedures and practices at the Centre.
• Attend to Centre emergencies; ensuring risk and security staff and contractors are trained to deal with all emergencies.
• Management of external service providers and contract security staff
• Develop strong relationships and work with local Police, WHS Regulators, Fire Brigade and Ambulance Services to develop operational and emergency protocol.

This is a permanent position with full-time hours. The days of work are Monday to Friday.

As a part of our asset team, you’ll also have duty management responsibilities where you’ll be required to work a late night or weekend shift (on a roster), which will be balanced with a day off in-lieu.

What will set you apart from the rest?

• You will have a strong background in security, risk management and managing workplace health & safety.
• You will be a strong leader with a warm, approachable and engaging persona.
• You will be calm and considered under pressure.
• You will be a confident and clear communicator.

Technically, you will have the following skills and experience:

• Qualifications or related experience in Work Health and Safety
• Solid experience in risk and security management in retail, property, hospitality, entertainment, leisure or other services industry
• Ability to mitigate and manage risk, manage incident response and follow through with reporting, authority interaction and assisting with insurance claims management
• Experience and technical knowledge of CCTV and Access Control systems and visitor and contractor management systems

What sets us apart from the rest?

• Diverse career paths across our vertically integrated business
• Ability to innovate in a company that not only encourages it but will facilitate it
• Competitive benefits including 18 weeks parental leave, 5 extra days ‘Life Leave’ volunteer days to work with our charity partners, health and wellbeing discounts and ability to purchase extra annual leave
• Working with a team that feels more like a second family than 'work mates'
• Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

If this sounds like you, apply today to join a company you’ll be proud to work for.