Health & Safety Advisor

HEB Construction; Blenheim; Remote; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

HEB Construction is seeking a practical and experienced Health & Safety Advisor to work with project teams across our civil sites in Marlborough. This is a site-based, fixed-term role until 2029 with relocation support on offer.

You will spend time in the field, coaching crews, conducting site visits and ICAM investigations, and ensuring critical controls are understood and applied. You’ll influence safer outcomes through hands-on guidance and real-time advice.

Qualifications

• Requires health and safety qualification at NZQA Level 4 or above.
• Experience leading or supporting incident investigations, ideally using ICAM.
• Experience undertaking site-based health and safety assurance and engagement.
• Sound understanding of New Zealand health and safety legislation and risk-management practices.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong, visible health and safety presence across the project.
• Undertake regular site visits focused on critical risks and active work.
• Engage with frontline workers, supervisors and project leaders.
• Provide practical, real-time coaching on risk controls and safe work practices.
• Lead or support ICAM investigations for high-actual and high-potential incidents.
• Review incident notifications and support escalation.
• Complete inspections, assurance activities and critical control observations.
• Identify emerging risks and escalate when required.
• Support corrective-action close-out and share lessons across the project.

Skills

Incident investigations (ICAM)

Site-based H&S assurance

Risk management

Coaching & communication

Stakeholder engagement

NZ health and safety legislation

Education

NZQA Level 4 Health & Safety qualification

Job description

Be visible. Build trust. Make safety work where it matters most: on site.

We are looking for a practical and experienced Health & Safety Advisor to work alongside our project teams, supervisors and frontline crews.

This is a genuinely site-based role. You will spend most of your time out in the field, understanding how work is being carried out, engaging with our people and providing real-time advice and coaching. It is well suited to someone who enjoys being close to the work and influencing safer outcomes through practical support, not simply producing documentation from an office.

Reporting to the Health & Safety Manager, you will help ensure critical risks are understood, effective controls are in place and lessons from incidents and site observations are embedded across the project. This is a fixed term role until 2029. Relocation support on offer.

What you’ll be doing

• Maintaining a strong, visible health and safety presence across the project
• Undertaking regular site visits focused on critical risks and active work
• Engaging directly with frontline workers, supervisors and project leaders
• Providing practical, real-time coaching on risk controls and safe work practices
• Leading or supporting ICAM investigations for high-actual and high-potential incidents
• Reviewing incident notifications and supporting appropriate escalation
• Completing inspections, assurance activities and critical control observations
• Identifying emerging or systemic risks and escalating these when required
• Supporting corrective-action close-out and sharing lessons across the project
• Facilitating toolbox talks, learning reviews and targeted field-based training
• Supporting audit preparation and the close-out of audit findings
• Strengthening ownership of health and safety across operational teams and subcontractors

About you

You will be credible and comfortable in an active construction environment. You know how to build relationships with site teams, ask the right questions and challenge positively when something needs to change.

You will bring:

• A health and safety qualification at NZQA Level 4 or above
• Experience leading or supporting incident investigations, ideally using ICAM
• Experience undertaking site-based health and safety assurance and engagement
• A sound understanding of New Zealand health and safety legislation and risk-management practices
• The confidence to coach and influence frontline leaders and crews
• Strong written skills, particularly for investigation and assurance reporting
• Practical knowledge of critical-risk management
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills
• The ability to work effectively in a dynamic, site-based environment

Experience in civil construction or infrastructure would be advantageous, as would a Level 6 Health and Safety Diploma or higher qualification.

About HEB Construction

HEB Construction delivers multidisciplinary civil engineering and infrastructure solutions across New Zealand. Our capabilities include roads, bridges, subdivisions, water infrastructure, piling, wharf construction, precast elements and landscaping.

Our values shape how we work: Open, Real, Together, Care and Deliver.

If you are a practical safety professional who wants to be out on site, working directly with the people delivering the work and helping strengthen critical controls where they matter most, we would like to hear from you.