General Manager Health and Safety

Zenergy; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 300,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Executive-level role

Ownership of function design

Leadership culture

Job summary

Zenergy is seeking a Senior HSE leader to drive health and safety across a dispersed field-based workforce. You will shape the safety function, elevate the safety culture, and partner with the Executive Leadership Team to embed risk-based decision making in every operation.

You will lead a small HSE team, ensure compliance with Australian WHS legislation, and bring credibility to all levels from technicians to executives. A strategic, hands-on leader with a current driver’s licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Senior HSE leadership experience in a multi-site, high-risk environment such as facilities management, maintenance, construction, utilities or technical service.
• Strong working knowledge of Australian WHS legislation and officer due-diligence obligations.
• Presence and credibility to engage technicians to executives (humour helpful).
• Strategic mindset with ability to pivot in a dynamic environment.
• Current driver’s licence and relevant HSE qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Spend ~50% time in the field, travelling across regions to assess safety status first-hand.
• Set and drive HSE strategy, targets and accountability with state General Managers.
• Introduce and embed a new safety management cycle with metrics owned by operational leaders.
• Move safety from compliance to commitment and embed safety culture as new companies join the group.
• Lead and develop a small HSE team with potential to grow."
• Partner with Executive Leadership Team to shape the safety function.

Skills

WHS knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Strategic mindset

Communication

Education

HSE tertiary qualifications

Job description

Our client is a 100% Australian-owned, national technical and facilities services provider. With branches in every state and territory, they deliver essential maintenance and services across commercial, government, healthcare, education, mining and marine sectors.

About the role

You’ll lead health and safety across a dispersed, high-risk, field-based workforce, reporting to the COO. This is a new chapter for the function. The business is growing through acquisition, the safety agenda is being elevated, and you’ll have real freedom to shape what it looks like. You’ll take have seat at the table in the General Manager group and be a trusted partner to the Executive Leadership Team.

Key responsibilities

• Spend around half your time in the field, travelling across multiple regions to see the true status of safety first-hand
• Set and drive HSE strategy, targets and accountability, working with state-based General Managers to build genuine safety ownership
• Introduce and embed a new management cycle where safety metrics are presented and owned by operational leaders
• Challenge the frontline and bring safety to life, moving the business from compliance to commitment
• Integrate safety culture as new companies join the group, demonstrating measurable improvement
• Lead and develop a small HSE team, with scope to grow it as the business needs

About you

You will hold Senior HSE leadership experience in a multi-site, high-risk environment such as facilities management, maintenance, construction, utilities or technical service, with proven success leading change and safety culture transformation.

In addition you will display:

• Strong working knowledge of Australian WHS legislation and officer due-diligence obligations
• Presence and credibility, with the ability to engage everyone from technicians to executives (a little humour helps)
• A strategic mindset, comfortable pivoting in a dynamic, agile environment
• Relevant HSE tertiary qualifications and a current driver’s licence

What we offer

• Salary of $300,000 to $330,000 plus short-term incentive
• A visible, influential executive-level role with the full support of the leadership team
• A direct, transparent and accountable leadership culture, led by a COO who is new to the business and building a team that is honest and takes ownership
• The chance to design the function from the ground up