Health and Safety Advisor

McConnell Dowell; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McConnell Dowell is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join our team supporting a major civil infrastructure project in metropolitan Adelaide. This hands-on role requires a strong field presence, partnering with Supervisors, engineers and subcontractors to embed practical safety on site.

You’ll deliver site inductions, toolbox talks and regular risk assessments, while conducting audits and incident investigations.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ operational health and safety experience within the construction industry.
• Strong knowledge of work health and safety legislation and risk management principles.
• Experience with incident investigations, risk assessments, inspections and audits.
• Ability to provide practical safety advice to Supervisors, Contractors and site personnel.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing to a broader project team.
• Strong computer literacy, including Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Providing practical HSE advice and support to construction and project teams to promote a safe working environment.
• Working with supervisors, contractors and site personnel to identify, assess and manage workplace hazards and risks.
• Conducting regular site inspections, audits and high-risk activity reviews, ensuring compliance with HSE requirements.
• Supporting project risk assessments, reviewing work practices and implementing effective risk controls.
• Investigating incidents, managing corrective and preventative actions, and supporting return-to-work cases and plans.
• Administering HSE activities through HammerTech, including incidents, hazards, risk assessments, inspections, audits and reporting.
• Delivering site inductions, pre-starts and toolbox talks while building strong relationships and promoting a proactive health, safety and environmental culture.

Skills

Health & Safety

Incident investigations

Audits & inspections

Communication

Tools

HammerTech

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

McConnell Dowell is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join our team supporting an upcoming major civil infrastructure project in metropolitan Adelaide.

Joining as the project builds towards delivery, you’ll work closely with our construction teams to make sure safety is practical, understood and embedded in the way we work.

This is a hands‑on role with a strong presence in the field. You’ll partner with Supervisors, Engineers, subcontractors and site personnel to identify and manage risk, provide practical advice and support safe delivery across the project.

Key responsibilities:

• Providing practical HSE advice and support to construction and project teams to promote a safe working environment.


• Working with supervisors, contractors and site personnel to identify, assess and manage workplace hazards and risks.


• Conducting regular site inspections, audits and high-risk activity reviews, ensuring compliance with HSE requirements.


• Supporting project risk assessments, reviewing work practices and implementing effective risk controls.


• Investigating incidents, managing corrective and preventative actions, and supporting return-to-work cases and plans.


• Administering HSE activities through HammerTech, including incidents, hazards, risk assessments, inspections, audits and reporting.


• Delivering site inductions, pre-starts and toolbox talks while building strong relationships and promoting a proactive health, safety and environmental culture.

About you

You’ll be an experienced Health and Safety Advisor who enjoys being out in the field and working alongside delivery teams. You’re comfortable having practical safety conversations, challenging where needed and building trusted relationships across all levels of a project.

You’ll bring:

• A minimum of five years’ operational health and safety experience within the construction industry S


• Strong working knowledge of relevant work health and safety legislation and risk management principles


• Experience with incident investigations, risk assessments, inspections and audits


• The confidence to provide practical advice to Supervisors, Contractors and site personnel


• Strong communication and relationship-building skills


• The ability to work independently while contributing to a broader project team


• Strong computer literacy, including Microsoft Office

About Us

McConnell Dowell - Creative Construction

Our purpose isProviding a Better Life.We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people.

From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

Why join us?

The work you’ll do will have a tangible positive impact on people’s lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that. Because when you grow, we all grow.

McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but agile enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.

So, join us, be you, and help us create better together

We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks.

This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.