HSE Advisor

Omexom New Zealand; Upper Harbour; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Life & Disability Cover

Generous KiwiSaver Contributions

Enhanced Parental Leave

Birthday Leave

Long Service Rewards

Career Advancement Opportunities

Great Team

Job summary

Omexom New Zealand is seeking a Health, Safety & Environment leader based in Albany, Auckland. You will partner with operational leaders to champion HSE excellence, embedding a high-perform­ance safety culture and ensuring compliance across the business.

You will provide expert advice, coaching, and hands-on guidance to Business Units, drive continuous improvement, monitor governance, and support regulatory reporting.

Qualifications

• Qualification in Health, Safety & Environment or equivalent preferred.
• Experience with HSE systems and regulatory requirements is desirable.
• Ability to lead investigations and deliver proactive safety improvements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Champion HSE excellence and foster a strong safety culture across the unit.
• Identify and mitigate operational HSE risks and ensure compliance.
• Partner with managers to implement HSE systems, training and improvements.
• Lead incident investigations and drive corrective actions and lessons learned.
• Monitor audits, contractor management and HSE reporting for governance.
• Provide expert advice during HSE events and regulatory reporting.
• Promote proactive risk management to protect people and the environment.

Skills

HSE management

Regulatory knowledge

Incident investigations

Training & coaching

Audit & compliance

Education

HSE qualification

Tools

MS Office

EHS software

Job description

Job Category: Quality, Safety & the Environment

Job Description

• Based in Albany, Auckland
• Comprehensive Health Insurance.
• Life & Disability Cover
• Generous KiwiSaver Contributions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Birthday Leave.
• Long Service Rewards.
• Career Advancement Opportunities.
• Be a part of a Great Team.
• Full-time, permanent contract with a minimum of 40 hours guaranteed per week
• Monday - Friday

About the Role

Be the driving force behind a safer, stronger, and more sustainable workplace. As a key member of our team, you’ll partner with operational leaders to champion Health, Safety, and Environmental excellence across the business. In this dynamic role, you’ll provide expert advice, proactive support, and hands-on guidance to our Business Units, helping to embed a high-performance safety culture and ensure best-practice compliance. Through monitoring, coaching, and continuous improvement initiatives, you’ll play a vital role in protecting our people, enhancing operational performance, and driving positive environmental outcomes.

The successful candidate will work on key responsibilities like:

• Champion Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) excellence, fostering a strong safety culture and effective worker participation across the Business Unit.
• Identify, manage and mitigate operational HSE risks while ensuring compliance with regulatory, client and company requirements.
• Partner with managers, supervisors and key stakeholders to implement HSE systems, strategies, training and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead incident investigations, corrective actions, safety communications and lessons learned to drive ongoing performance improvements.
• Monitor compliance, audits, contractor management, training records and HSE reporting to ensure accurate and effective governance.
• Provide expert advice and support during HSE events, emergency situations and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Promote innovation, best practice and proactive risk management to protect people, the environment and the business.

Qualifications and Skills

• Qualification in Health, Safety & Environment (or equivalent) preferred
• Engineering or Trade qualification advantageous
• Working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work Act and its practical application
• Understanding of operational or technical environments, with industry experience an advantage
• HSE investigation experience or training preferred
• Environmental compliance knowledge preferred
• Audit training or experience advantageous
• Be comfortable presenting in front of groups

Who are we?

As the global energy landscape continues to evolve, Omexom is supporting New Zealand's transition toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. We work alongside partners across the energy ecosystem to accelerate progress and enable meaningful decarbonisation.

Omexom New Zealand brings the global scale, innovation, and proven expertise of a global leader to every local project. We collaborate with those who produce, transform and transport electricity and energy, including network owners and local authorities, to operate, build and maintain critical infrastructure. Our established processes ensure reliability and safety at scale, while longstanding relationships and on-the-ground experience make us trusted partners to work with.

We're here to help New Zealand build smarter, more efficient and resilient energy networks that will support community and industry for generations to come.

Please note, that only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

According to the Harvard Business Review, men typically apply for jobs when they meet only 60% of the qualifications, whereas women and individuals from underrepresented groups usually apply only if they meet all the criteria. We're not just about checking boxes, so if you believe you have the skills but don't meet every requirement listed, please reach out if you would like to find out more, we'd love to talk with you.

Come join our amazing team and be a part of the pioneers in energy transition.