HSEQ Manager

UGL Limited; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness Program with AIA Vitality

Discounts through partnerships

Salary sacrifice options

Job summary

UGL Limited is seeking an experienced HSSEQ Manager to provide leadership and guidance across health, safety, environment and quality for our Victoria-based infrastructure program. You will champion incident investigations, KPI tracking and continuous improvement, coaching project teams and maintaining compliance with regulatory and client requirements.

The role focuses on implementing UGL’s HSEQ Management System, building capability in site teams and ensuring a safe and healthy workplace while

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of health, safety, security and environment regulations.
• Proven track record in leading incident investigations and root-cause analysis.
• Experience delivering HSEQ programs within large infrastructure projects.
• Ability to coach and develop site teams and foster a OneHSE culture.

Responsibilities

• Implement and sustain HSEQ Management System across projects.
• Lead incident investigations (Severity 1/2, PC1) and report KPI performance.
• Provide guidance on legal and client obligations and emerging risks.
• Facilitate risk workshops and share lessons learned across projects.

Skills

HSEQ knowledge

Incident investigation

Leadership

Contract management

Team management

Job description

HSEQ Manager-268916

UGL's Transmission and Utilities business undertakes essential design & construction services for critical infrastructure in the power and water sectors. Our end-to-end delivery ranges from transmission lines, switchyards, substations, electrical distribution through to water and wastewater treatment plants and water pipelines.

Our expertise includes the design, construct, commission, operate and maintain where our Utilities Team safely leads and delivers design & construct projects across Australia. Our project delivery extends to include short and long-term contracts either through self-performance works, working with Sub-contractors or through Joint Ventures. Our work spans from engineering design through to structural, civil, electrical installation works and commissioning.

The Opportunity

The HSSEQ Manager is responsible for providing advice, assistance, guidance, training, leadership and support to all levels of operations on health, safety, security, environment and quality issues across the program or works.

The position also provides advice to support and maintain a safe and healthy workplace and for adherence to company policies and other applicable laws, regulations and standards for the workplace. If adequate laws or policies don’t exist, ensuring practices adopted reflect assurance to the highest standard in the WH&S and environment.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Implement UGL’s HSEQ Management System, through coaching and completion of assurance activities (aligned to UGL’s Assurance Plan).
• Build HSEQ capability in Site/Project Teams, using the OneHSE Culture Program as platform to build from.
• Actively engage Project teams to identify how health and safety, environment, and quality outcomes are being achieved on site, and assist with addressing gaps where identified.
• Take part in/facilitate Project Risk Workshops, building capability and sharing lessons from other projects.
• Lead incident investigations for Severity 1, Severity 2 and PC1 events
• Monitor and report on achievement of Project HSEQ KPI’s, working with the leadership team to address any identified deficiencies.
• Monitor alignment with legal and client obligations, providing advice to Project Managers and projects/sites on changes or emerging trends that could impact the successful delivery of work.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

What are we looking for you to bring to the team:

• Excellent knowledge of the relevant HSEQ legislations.
• Demonstrated capability in implementing HSEQ improvement programs/strategies.
• Experience in leading incident investigations for significant events.
• Developed Strong business Acumen and understanding of different contract strategies.
• Experience working in the capacity of a Principal Contractor on large infrastructure projects (any water infrastructure experience desirable).
• Experience managing teams across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Root Cause Investigation Qualification (ICAM or Taproot) (Minimum).

Why Unite with the Very Best…

• A competitive salary working in a rewarding, supportive and successful team
• Back yourself and your development, and UGL will back your growth
• Flexible and blended work environment; make use of flexible working and our impressive employee benefits, including:
  • A rewarding Wellness Program with AIA Vitality – earn cashback for gym shoes!
  • We’ll give you access to a multitude of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.
  • You can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice options including cars, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.

UGL – Big projects. Big careers.

We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations. We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses)

We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines.

Diversity & Social Inclusion

UGL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where each employee feels safe to bring their whole selves to work. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, Women, Military Veterans, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with a disability and our friends in the LGBTIQ+ Community.

UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate an applicant’s suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. It’s good to know that UGL does not discriminate based on a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check.

Discipline: Health Safety Security & Environment Manager

Primary Location: Australia-VIC-Melbourne CBD & Inner Suburbs

Work Type: Full-time