Location: Darwin or KatherineStatus: Full-time Ongoing About the RoleDo you thrive in a role where you can make a valuable input that will have a meaningful impact on organisational health and safety risk and wellbeing practices and, can travel within the Top End? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you! The NLC is currently recruiting for a Work Health & Safety (WH&S) Operations Lead.This role will be overall responsible for providing guidance, support, and coaching to internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance and knowledge capabilities are strengthened about wellbeing, health, safety risk process. Furthermore, it will contribute to enhancing a safety-first and collaborative culture at the NLC.What You Will Bring:A background that demonstrates you are highly experienced in managing and maintaining all facets of work, wellbeing, health and safety matters, however you will work within a dedicated WH&S team.Abilities to coach and mentor supervisors in a collaborative manner to develop their WH&S knowledge is essential. Experience in facilitating risk workshops and, assisting in the development of safety process to build proactive risk management skills in staff is a must.  Being interpersonal and hold strong cross-cultural competency and stakeholder engagement skills is required. Understanding key process in emergency management and, incident, injury and workers compensation case management is a requirement. Having strong analytical skills and attention to detail is needed, 'close enough' is not good enough for WH&S!If you are keen to be part of making a change through, innovative thinking, healthy and safe team collaboration, managing risks or incidents with a natural curiosity and, your continual view is to make improvement then this might be the opportunity you have been waiting for.In addition to this, you will have: -Diploma in Work Health and Safety and/or minimum of 5 years practical experience in a similar roleExperience working in an Aboriginal or community-based context is a plus.Current full NT drivers licence and the ability to travel remotely via 4wd and light aircraft.For a full copy of the Position Description, please view on our NLC jobs page at https://jobs.nlc.org.au/.What’s in it for you?As Part of a dedicated team focused on ensuring safe and healthy work environments while advocating for the well-being of Aboriginal communities, this is an exciting opportunity that offers you the chance to lead Work Health and Safety initiatives at the NLC.With competitive remuneration, a strong emphasis on work-life balance, and the opportunity to contribute to the safety and prosperity of Aboriginal communities across the region, this is an exciting and meaningful career move.We offer: A base salary of $110,763 per annum plus 14.5% superannuation and salary sacrificing up to $15,900 + Meal Entertainment and Holiday Accommodation benefits up to $2,650 per year.Other benefits under our Enterprise Agreement include:District allowance of up to $4,797 per annum for individuals with dependents and $2,630 without dependents.5 weeks annual leave, leaving loading, 18 days personal leave;Paid Christmas close down;Upon completion of 12 months of service an Annual airfare with a net (in hand) value of $2,724 Interested applicants should send a copy of their CV along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in this position and what relevant skills and experiences you will bring to the role.If you have any further queries please contact: Katie Brown on 0428 014 599Applications Close: Monday, 30th September 2024About the NLCCultural knowledge and lived experience are central to the work that we do here at NLC.  The Northern Land Council (NLC) was established 50 years ago under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act in 1976, to assist Aboriginal people in the Top End of the NT to acquire and manage their traditional lands, waters and seas.  We are committed to enhancing Aboriginal peoples social, political and economic participation by supporting their aspirations and amplifying theirPosition Description - Work Health and Safety Operations Lead AUD Darwin City 0800

Work Health & Safety Operations Lead

  • Location: Darwin or Katherine
  • Status: Full-time Ongoing

 

About the Role

Do you thrive in a role where you can make a valuable input that will have a meaningful impact on organisational health and safety risk and wellbeing practices and, can travel within the Top End? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you! The NLC is currently recruiting for a Work Health & Safety (WH&S) Operations Lead.

This role will be overall responsible for providing guidance, support, and coaching to internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance and knowledge capabilities are strengthened about wellbeing, health, safety risk process. Furthermore, it will contribute to enhancing a safety-first and collaborative culture at the NLC.

What You Will Bring:

A background that demonstrates you are highly experienced in managing and maintaining all facets of work, wellbeing, health and safety matters, however you will work within a dedicated WH&S team.

Abilities to coach and mentor supervisors in a collaborative manner to develop their WH&S knowledge is essential. Experience in facilitating risk workshops and, assisting in the development of safety process to build proactive risk management skills in staff is a must.  Being interpersonal and hold strong cross-cultural competency and stakeholder engagement skills is required. Understanding key process in emergency management and, incident, injury and workers compensation case management is a requirement. Having strong analytical skills and attention to detail is needed, 'close enough' is not good enough for WH&S!

If you are keen to be part of making a change through, innovative thinking, healthy and safe team collaboration, managing risks or incidents with a natural curiosity and, your continual view is to make improvement then this might be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

In addition to this, you will have: -

  • Diploma in Work Health and Safety and/or minimum of 5 years practical experience in a similar role
  • Experience working in an Aboriginal or community-based context is a plus.
  • Current full NT drivers licence and the ability to travel remotely via 4wd and light aircraft.

For a full copy of the Position Description, please view on our NLC jobs page at https://jobs.nlc.org.au/.

What’s in it for you?

As Part of a dedicated team focused on ensuring safe and healthy work environments while advocating for the well-being of Aboriginal communities, this is an exciting opportunity that offers you the chance to lead Work Health and Safety initiatives at the NLC.

With competitive remuneration, a strong emphasis on work-life balance, and the opportunity to contribute to the safety and prosperity of Aboriginal communities across the region, this is an exciting and meaningful career move.

We offer:

  • A base salary of $110,763 per annum plus 14.5% superannuation and salary sacrificing up to $15,900 + Meal Entertainment and Holiday Accommodation benefits up to $2,650 per year.
  • Other benefits under our Enterprise Agreement include:
    • District allowance of up to $4,797 per annum for individuals with dependents and $2,630 without dependents.
    • 5 weeks annual leave, leaving loading, 18 days personal leave;
    • Paid Christmas close down;
    • Upon completion of 12 months of service an Annual airfare with a net (in hand) value of $2,724

 

Interested applicants should send a copy of their CV along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in this position and what relevant skills and experiences you will bring to the role.

If you have any further queries please contact: Katie Brown on 0428 014 599

Applications Close: Monday, 30th September 2024

About the NLC

Cultural knowledge and lived experience are central to the work that we do here at NLC.  The Northern Land Council (NLC) was established 50 years ago under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act in 1976, to assist Aboriginal people in the Top End of the NT to acquire and manage their traditional lands, waters and seas.  We are committed to enhancing Aboriginal peoples social, political and economic participation by supporting their aspirations and amplifying their

Position Description - Work Health and Safety Operations Lead