AddressSafety Advisor
- Employment Type: Full time (35 hours per week)
- Duration: Continuing
- Remuneration: Level 7 $106,351 - $115,103(depending on experience) + 17% super + leave loading
- Location: Kensington, NSW
About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Why Your Role Matters:
Estate Management (EM) provides a range of services and advice to all Faculties and Divisions on the Kensington campus as well as the sub-campuses. It does this by providing campus planning, infrastructure planning, development, construction, refurbishment, maintenance, and environmental management.
The Safety Advisor provides health and safety support across the EM Directorates. The position will support EM ensuring compliance with all applicable health and safety legislation to minimise the risk and prevent injuries in the workplace of all workers. The position plays a significant role in developing and fostering a positive health and safety culture in line with the UNSW Safety Strategy and implementing health and safety management systems that supports business operations.
The position reports to Senior Safety Manager, Estate Management and has no direct reports.
Responsibilities:
- Support the Senior Safety Manager, Estate Management in delivering objectives aligned to the Safety Plan for Estate Management.
- Collaborate with all Estate Management teams to ensure safety responsibilities are being met including design, construction and maintenance activities.
- Manage incident reporting and corrective action resolution within agreed timeframe using UNSW systems.
- Coordinate incident investigations in conjunction with the Senior Safety Manager, supervisors, health and safety representatives, safety committee members and contractors where applicable.
- Identify and analyse health and safety incident trends and facilitate strategies to prevent reoccurrence.
- Manage the role out of safety programs in Estate Management as outlined in the UNSW Safety Plan.
- Conduct audits and regular inspections of contractors and UNSW infrastructure, using UNSW systems and processes.
- Ensure contractor safety documentation meet UNSW standards.
- Deliver inductions, training and presentations related to health and safety to staff and contractors as required.
- Lead and monitor the implementation of UNSW’s Health and Safety policies, procedures and guidelines.
Who You Are:
You’ll have strong stakeholder engagement skills with a demonstrated ability to positively lead and empower others, with the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships across UNSW and create a safe environment for everyone.
Extensive experience in a Workplace Health & Safety role (or similar) is required coupled with demonstrated work experience as a safety professional in facilities management, construction industry are desirable.
You will have experience in managing incident reports including incident investigation skills and the ability to work with teams to improve systems, processes and share lessons learnt with a focus on a enhancing a proactive safety culture.
Experience working with contractors to conduct safety onsite inspections, audits, and review safety documentation to ensure they are meeting UNSW standard.
In return, you’ll be working in a supportive team focused on continuously improving safety across all UNSW sites.
Further details can be found in a copy of the Position Description linked below or via JOBS@UNSW.
Benefits and Culture:
People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.
Our benefits include:
- Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours etc)
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)
For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits
To Apply: If this is of interest to you, please submit your CV, Cover Letter and responses to the Skills and Experience outlined in the position description.
Contact: Amy Denney: Talent Acquisition Coordinator e: a.denney@unsw.edu.au
Please note applications sent directly to the contacts above cannot be accepted.
Applications close: 11.55pm, 17th March 2024
UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.
