- Employment Type: Full time
- Duration: Continuing
- Remuneration: $148K - $157K + 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading
- Location: Kensington (Hybrid Flexible Working)
About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world (QS top 20) and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Why Your Role Matters:
The Senior Health & Safety Advisor – Contractors, provides strategic leadership and expert guidance in contractor management, enabling end-to-end Health & Safety support for contractor management across UNSW. The role ensures that the requirements in the contractor management framework (CMF) are expanded to cover all contracting works or services undertaken at UNSW.
The role will support our contracting partners to understand and adhere to the requirements and expectations outlined in the CMF. As the principal technical expert and escalation point for health & safety aspects of contractor management, this role shapes frameworks and systems that impact the entire university and provides authoritative advice to senior leaders. Working closely with the Head of Health & Safety Estates & Contractors and other H&S roles within the broader team, the role ensures contractors are managing H&S risks to a high standard by supporting leaders across the business with visibility and oversight of contractor health and safety management.
The role contributes significantly to the continuous improvement of contractor management health and safety processes, systems, and frameworks by collaborating with the Health & Safety Performance and Improvement team, participates in transformational projects, and supports increased risk visibility through analytics and reporting.
Who You Are:
- Extensive experience as a senior Health & Safety Advisor or Partner in multisite operations with contractor heavy environments including major projects.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve a comprehensive Contractor Management Framework and IT system encompassing prequalification, onboarding, compliance, monitoring, performance review, and offboarding.
- Relevant tertiary qualification with significant and sustained relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
- Proven capability in front-line H&S Advisor service provision including complex risk assessment methodology, incident management and investigation, assurance activities, consultation, and the design and implementation of risk mitigation solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and coaching skills; ability to tailor advice and influence senior leaders.
- Advanced expertise in contractor management with oversight of high-risk construction work in an estates and contractor management context.
- Track record of continuous improvement and service delivery, with demonstrated success achieving safe outcomes on initiatives through a collaborative approach.
- Ability to act as technical expert for the design and delivery of training programs relating to health and safety.
- Data literacy and ability to interpret insights to drive improvements.
- Ability to support front-line leadership in planning for and responding to physical and psychological health risks including facilitation of cross functional case management response relating to injuries.
- Knowledge of workers compensation and injury management to enable front-line triage and response for potential psychological injury.
- Knowledge of psychosocial risk and integration of Health & Wellbeing considerations into operational practice.
Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include:
- Salary packaging options, including novated leasing.
- Generous leave entitlements, including an additional 3 paid days off over end of year holiday period.
- Access to Fitness Passport, giving you and your family discounted access to hundreds of gyms, pools and fitness facilities.
- Career development opportunities, including access to leadership and professional learning programs.
- Discounts and perks across retail, travel, education and health services.
- A supportive, flexible, and inclusive culture that values wellbeing and diversity.
Find out more about staff benefits at UNSW.
How to Apply:
Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your application online before Wednesday 4th Feb at 11:55pm. A copy of the Position Description can be found on jobs@UNSW.
Get in Touch:
For questions regarding the recruitment process - Please contact Kim Symons (Talent Acquisition Manager) E: k.symons@unsw.edu.au
Please apply through the application portal and not via the contacts above.
Pre-Employment Checks
Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.
These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:-
- National and International Criminal history checks
- Entitlement to work and ID checks
- Working With Children Checks
- Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
- Verification of relevant qualifications
- Verification of relevant professional membership
- Employment history and reference checks
- Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
- Medical Checks and Assessments
Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.
UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.
