Safety & Wellbeing Coordinator

The Company
Our client has more than 80 years of history in food manufacturing - underpinning innovation, and commitment to quality. Highly people-focussed, this business are a much loved-Australian organisation employing over 1,200 staff in the region. With 13 farms and multiple additional suppliers, their Lockwood site is “ground-zero” for processing and quality control.


The Role

As the Safety & Wellbeing Coordinator, you will be responsible for engaging operational staff and leaders to view safety as a major priority across corporate office, manufacturing sites, and supplier / contract manufacturing sites in the region.
You will build on the business’s current safety policies and procedures through advising staff and leaders at each site as well as maintaining the ongoing administrative duties to ensure adherence and compliance.
In this role you will maintain registers and records and be tasked with reviewing each site's existing protocols and standardise a “best practice” approach to ensure a level of uniformity across the business. You will engage employees in training, audit practices to ensure effective implementation, and lead safety risk assessments for continuous improvement.
As the Safety & Wellbeing Coordinator, you will be familiar with all current codes of practice and liaise with government bodies and regulators including WorkSafe, WorkCover to ensure the sites are in compliance with national and global safety standards. You will possess the ability to engage all members and bring them on a journey towards safety excellence.
Skills & Experience

• Relevant tertiary WH&S qualifications and a minimum of 2-3 years industry experience.
• Demonstrated success within a farming or manufacturing environment is ideal.
• Prior successes in the implementation and ongoing management of a safety framework within a similar organization.
• Working knowledge of Safety Management Systems, Manufacturing Processes, Quality Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems is ideal.

Benefits

• A competitive salary is on offer for the successful candidate
• Be part of one of the largest Australian food manufacturing businesses with a highly collaborative and inclusive culture
• The business is in a high growth phase with great opportunities for internal promotion, growth and increase in production/volumes.

For More Information
Here at Miller Leith we are open to having a conversation about your next career move. For a brief, confidential discussion, please contact Eugene Lane-Mullins at eugene@millerleith.com.au or 0481 156 010.