Manager - Contractor Safety

Monash University; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 145,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Monash University is seeking a Manager - Contractor Safety to provide strategic leadership across its property and infrastructure portfolio. You will lead a team of four to manage contractor safety, capital works, and infrastructure operations across research, teaching and residential assets.

You will champion the contractor safety management framework, embed Safety in Design principles, and drive customer-focused HSW solutions while ensuring contractors retain operational responsibility for

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualifications (or equivalent experience) and extensive HSW management expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead contractor safety across the portfolio and oversee the contractor lifecycle.
• Provide strategic governance and assurance for HSW across the organisation.
• Engage with procurement, facilities, and senior stakeholders to drive safety outcomes.

Skills

HSW management

Contractor safety

Education

Postgraduate qualifications

Job description

Job No.: 698962

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: Continuing appointment

Remuneration: $145,062 - $153,976 pa HEW Level 09 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive, collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Monash University is seeking a Manager - Contractor Safety to provide strategic leadership across its property and infrastructure portfolio. Reporting to the Director with broad autonomy, you will lead a team of four to manage contractor safety, capital works and infrastructure operations across research, teaching and residential assets.

In this role, you will champion the contractor safety management framework across the entire contractor lifecycle (in line with Monash University’s framework), embed Safety in Design principles and drive customer-focused HSW solutions. You will provide strategic contractor safety governance and assurance, maintaining overarching HSW oversight of the organisation's framework while ensuring contractors retain operational responsibility for their own systems of work.

Your focus will include leading critical risk and assurance activities, monitoring contractor performance and leveraging data to identify trends, priorities and continuous improvement opportunities. Working collaboratively across procurement, major projects, facilities/operations and contract management, you will influence key teams, manage unit budgets, direct strategic policies and engage with senior academic and external partners to achieve high-impact safety outcomes.

We are looking for a collaborative leader with postgraduate qualifications (or equivalent experience) and extensive HSW management expertise, including a proven track record of implementing or improving contractor safety frameworks in large, complex and contractor-intensive environments. Strong project management, strategic agility and high-level stakeholder negotiation skills are essential.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.

Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.

Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

Supporting a diverse workforce

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Enquiries: Paul Barton, Director, Business Support, [e-mail]

Position Description: Manager - Contractor Safety

Applications Close: Wednesday 18 November 2026, 11:55pm AEDT