Career Practitioner - Elevate Student Pathways & Careers

University Of Otago; Dunedin; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaan’s is seeking a Health & Safety professional to provide dedicated support across our Dunedin operation. You will promote safe, practical ways of working, identify hazards and drive risk reduction, while ensuring H&S systems are effectively implemented across the business.

Reporting to the Operations Manager and leaders, you will work hands-on with teams to improve safety day-to-day and support external partners in injury management and return-to-work processes.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a Health & Safety Officer, Coordinator or Advisor role.
• Good working knowledge of NZ Health & Safety legislation and best practice.
• Experience across hazard management, incident investigations and corrective action.
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to engage with people at all levels.
• Practical and solutions-focused with the ability to balance safety and operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the Health & Safety plan across the business.
• Identify hazards and assess risks in collaboration with teams.
• Coordinate hazard and incident investigations, reporting and corrective actions.
• Maintain and improve H&S and wellbeing systems and processes.
• Support compliance, injury management and return-to-work processes with ACC and providers.

Skills

Health & Safety

Coordination

Stakeholder Engagement

Hazard Identification

Incident Investigation

Education

Health & Safety qualification

Job description

About Kaan’s:

Kaan’s are proud to be Otago’s largest, privately family owned and operated wholesale food distribution business. They supply over 3000 products and directly import items from all over the world. They employ over 200 team members and operate over 80 delivery vehicles from North Canterbury to Bluff and everywhere in between. They have depots and branches in Dunedin, Invercargill, Central Otago, Timaru, and Christchurch.

They know fresh is best, buying daily from both local markets and all over NZ to ensure their customers get the freshest possible ingredients. They have in‑house vegetable processing & butchery facilities that helps customers reduce kitchen prep time, food wastage and wage costs.

Kaan’s value cultural differences, and prides themselves on offering services in Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai & Indian. This ensures they can easily help all customers meet their requirements.

The role:

This newly created role will provide dedicated Health & Safety support across Kaan’s, reporting to their highly experienced Operations Manager, Team Leaders and employees across the business.

You’ll have a strong presence across the operation, supporting safe ways of working, identifying and managing risks and ensuring Health & Safety systems and processes are effective and consistently followed. This is a practical role for someone who enjoys working directly with people and wants the opportunity to make a visible difference to safety across a busy operational environment.

Role Responsibilities / Duties:

• Support the delivery of Kaan’s Health & Safety plan, and promote safe, practical ways of working across the business.
• Work alongside Team Leaders and employees to identify hazards, assess risks and strengthen H&S practices.
• Coordinate hazard and incident management, investigations, reporting and corrective actions.
• Maintain and improve H&S and wellbeing systems and processes.
• Support legislative compliance, injury management and effective return-to-work outcomes alongside ACC and external providers.

Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience in a Health & Safety Officer, Coordinator, Advisor or similar position.
• Good working knowledge of NZ Health & Safety legislation and best practice.
• Experience across hazard management, incident investigation and corrective action.
• Strong relationship building skills with confidence to engage with people across all levels of the business.
• Practical and solutions focused with the ability to balance safety requirements with operational realities.

Desirable:

• A relevant Health & Safety qualification or currently working towards one.
• Experience within food distribution, manufacturing, warehousing, transport or a similar operational environment.
• Experience working with ACC, injury management and return-to-work processes.

Opportunity:

This is a great opportunity to join an established business in a newly created position where you can build strong relationships across the operation and play an important role in continuing to improve how Health & Safety is managed day to day.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Platinum Recruitment is proud to be a member ofTe Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusionand believes in equal opportunities for all. We actively promote diversity and inclusion in all our recruitment processes.