Hse Manager Nsw

Recruitment Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

u&u Recruitment Partners is seeking an experienced HSE leader to partner with regional executives across NSW and ACT, delivering practical initiatives that strengthen safety culture, reduce risk and improve compliance.

You will lead a team of HSE Business Partners, coach senior leaders, oversee incident investigations, training, governance forums and risk management, and ensure consistent application of policies across multi-site operations.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in HSE or significant experience in a similar senior HSE role.
• Strong knowledge of NSW HSE and workers’ compensation legislation.
• Experience with SafeWork NSW requirements.
• Experience within operational, service, repairs and maintenance environments.
• Strong coaching and influencing capability with senior and operational leaders.
• Experience leading incident investigations, ideally with ICAM or TapRooT capability.
• Commercial acumen balancing safety, risk and operations.
• Flexibility to travel across the region as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of HSE Business Partners across NSW and ACT.
• Provide coaching and trusted HSE advice to regional executives and site management.
• Develop and implement regional HSE improvement plans aligned with national strategy.
• Lead safety culture initiatives and governance forums.
• Monitor HSE performance, report insights and recommendations.
• Coordinate HSE training and ensure mandatory compliance.
• Oversee workers’ compensation and injury management programs.

Skills

HSE leadership

Coaching & influencing

Incident investigations

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Education

Degree in HSE or equivalent

Job description

Job Details

About the company Our client is a large, established organisation operating across a complex, multi-site environment throughout ANZ. The business provides sales, servicing, repairs, maintenance and parts across its operations, creating a diverse environment encompassing workshops, machinery, equipment and customer-facing facilities. This organisation is committed to strengthening its HSE culture and embedding safe, practical and consistent ways of working across its sites. This is an opportunity to join a recognised organisation where HSE has strong visibility across a broad operational workforce.

About the role

Partnering closely with regional executives across, operational leaders and site teams, you will provide contemporary HSE advice and lead the delivery of practical initiatives that strengthen safety culture, reduce risk and improve compliance. You will balance strategic leadership with visible operational support, influencing leaders to take genuine ownership of HSE outcomes.

• Manage and lead a team of HSE Business Partners across the state
• Provide coaching and trusted HSE advice to regional executives, operational leaders and site management
• Develop and implement regional HSE improvement plans aligned with the national organisational strategy
• Lead cultural engagement and safety leadership initiatives across NSW and ACT
• Monitor HSE performance and provide meaningful reporting, insights and recommendations
• Build strong relationships across a geographically dispersed business to create engagement, accountability and sustainable improvement
• Support sites to apply HSE policies, standards, systems and procedures consistently
• Lead regional governance forums, consultation activities and HSE communities of practice
• Manage risk mitigation strategies and responses to regulatory, operational and organisational change
• Oversee serious incident investigations, assurance activities and corrective actions
• Coordinate the delivery of HSE training and monitor mandatory training compliance
• Oversee workers’ compensation, injury management and health risk programs
• Support contractor safety, property and fixed operational activities to ensure legislative and industry compliance

About you

You are an experienced HSE professional who combines strong technical capability with a practical, relationship-driven approach.

• Degree-level qualification in HSE or significant experience in a similar senior HSE role
• Strong knowledge of NSW HSE and workers’ compensation legislation
• Experience working with SafeWork NSW requirements
• Experience within operational, service, repairs and maintenance or similarly complex environments
• Strong coaching and influencing capability, particularly with senior and operational leaders
• Experience leading incident investigations, ideally with ICAM or TapRooT capability
• Commercial acumen with the ability to balance safety, risk and operational requirements
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to challenge, influence and create genuine ownership of safety
• Flexibility to travel across the region as required

At u&u Recruitment Partners, we value diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

Please submit your resume in Word format only.