Safety Advisor - 2692

This is an opportunity for a qualified and/experienced Safety Advisor to join an established, proactive and forward thinking safety team. The Safety Advisor role reports to the Coordinator Safety and is an influential role advocating safe work practices, facilitating compliance with legislation, standards, codes, policy and procedures and provides advice and support across the business.

The successful candidate will provide high level advice, guidance and training on all workplace health and safety aspects within Councils operations such as risk management, statutory compliance, incident investigation, training, and induction and contribute to improvement opportunities to reduce work process risks, raise safety awareness and improve safe work practices.

Other key responsibilities: 

• Conduct workplace inspections to identify any hazards and unsafe or unsatisfactory workplace health and safety conditions and practices;
• Appropriately report concerns and make sure actions remedying the issue are identified;
• Maintain accurate and confidential workplace health and safety records;
• Provide advice, coaching and support to leaders in relation to investigating accidents and incidents (inc near misses) determining causes and recommending preventative control measures.

If you are an experienced safety professional with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders, contractors, and employees and share our values, we want to hear from you!

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor of Occupational Health and Safety or Diploma of Work Health and Safety and/or equivalent experience working in a dedicated work health and safety role.
• Must possess and maintain a current motor vehicle drivers licence.

• QLGIA (Stream A) Level 4 - $86,958 p/a 
• Work/life balance with a fortnightly RDO;
• Salary packaging options;
• 12% employer superannuation; and
• Values driven organisation.