HSE Business Partner

George Weston Foods; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study assistance

Parental leave

Bonus scheme

Discounted partner rates

Community volunteering

Free company products

Job summary

MAURI, a division of George Weston Foods NZ, is seeking an experienced HSE/Business Partner to influence leaders, build capability and drive a proactive safety culture across our Auckland operations.

Reporting to the HSE Manager NZ, you will partner with the Auckland Site and Functional Leaders to strengthen our safety culture, improve risk management practices and ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements.

Qualifications

• A relevant Health & Safety qualification (Certificate, Diploma or equivalent).
• At least 5 years' experience in Health, Safety and Environment roles.
• Experience in manufacturing, food production, logistics or similar operational environments.
• Strong knowledge of New Zealand health and safety legislation and risk management principles.
• Proven ability to influence, coach and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience driving behavioural and cultural change initiatives.
• Strong analytical, reporting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building capabilities.
• Environmental management experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coach and support leaders to strengthen safety leadership and accountability.
• Drive behavioural safety initiatives and embed a proactive safety culture.
• Provide practical HSE advice focused on risk reduction and continuous improvement.
• Lead site audits, investigations, hazard management and compliance activities.
• Support injury prevention, rehabilitation and return-to-work programmes.
• Facilitate HSE training, inductions and capability-building initiatives.
• Monitor HSE performance and analyse trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage contractor safety requirements, permit-to-work processes and capital project HSE oversight.
• Support environmental reporting and governance requirements.

Skills

Influence stakeholders

Coaching

Behavioural safety

Analytical skills

Communication

Relationship-building

Education

Health & Safety qualification (Certificate, Diploma or equivalent)

Job description

At MAURI, we are looking for an experienced HS&EBusiness Partner who is passionate about influencing leaders, buildingcapability, and driving a proactive safety culture across our Aucklandoperations. If you enjoy partnering with leaders, coaching behavioural change,and delivering practical HSE solutions in a manufacturing environment, we would love to hear from you.

About the Role:

Reporting to the HSE Manager NZ, you will partnerwith the Auckland Site and Functional Leaders to strengthen oursafety culture, improve risk management practices, and ensure compliance withhealth, safety and environmental requirements.

This is a hands-on role where you'll spend time buildingrelationships, coaching leaders, supporting operational teams, and drivinginitiatives that make a real difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Coachand support leaders to strengthen safety leadership and accountability
• Drivebehavioural safety initiatives and embed a proactive safety culture
• Providepractical HSE advice focused on risk reduction and continuous improvement
• Leadsite audits, investigations, hazard management and compliance activities
• Supportinjury prevention, rehabilitation and return-to-work programmes
• FacilitateHSE training, inductions and capability-building initiatives
• MonitorHSE performance and analyse trends to identify opportunities forimprovement
• Managecontractor safety requirements, permit-to-work processes and capitalproject HSE oversight
• Supportenvironmental reporting and governance requirements

About You:

To be successful, you will bring:

• Arelevant Health & Safety qualification (Certificate, Diploma orequivalent)
• Atleast 5 years' experience in a Health, Safety and Environment role
• Experiencewithin manufacturing, food production, logistics, industrial or otheroperational environments
• Strongknowledge of New Zealand health and safety legislation and risk managementprinciples
• Provenability to influence, coach and engage stakeholders at all levels
• Experiencedriving behavioural and cultural change initiatives
• Stronganalytical, reporting and problem-solving skills
• Excellentcommunication and relationship-building capabilities
• Environmentalmanagement experience will be advantageous

Why Join Us?

• Joina leading Australasian food manufacturing business
• Partnerdirectly with leaders to influence meaningful change
• Workwithin a collaborative, values-driven culture
• Accessdevelopment and career growth opportunities across the wider GWF group
• Bepart of a team committed to making Safety for Everyone, Everyday areality

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary and fantastic bonus scheme
• Study Assistance after 12 months of continuous service
• Parental leave benefits on top of minimum entitlements
• Discounted rates at GWF’s business partners (Southern Cross, hotels across Australia and New Zealand)
• Community volunteering - 2 days paid leave to participate in a volunteering activity each calendar year with one aligned to GWF’s 3 charity partners and one for a registered charity of your own choice
• Free company products

About Us:

Our core values underpin everything that we do, and the result is a really special place to work. We have a fun, vibrant and a unique company culture that is founded on our four core values: Safe, Courageous, Trusting and Collaborative.

MAURI is a division of the George Weston Foods (NZ) Limited. We are passionate about all things made with high-quality bakery ingredients and Animal Feeds. We are a leading industry supplier, milling over one million tonnes of grain across 14 sites in Australia and New Zealand. With a strong focus on innovation and insights, we align closely with our customers to create products and develop solutions that help their business’ grow.