Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor
  
Eastern Seaboard | Sydney-based on-site Monday-Friday | Nationally growing business
  
Build credibility. Shape strategy. Make a genuine impact.
  
A newly created opportunity has arisen for a practical and relationship-focused Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to join a rapidly growing national construction materials business undergoing a significant safety transformation.
  
With strong executive commitment to safety and investment in additional capability, this is an opportunity to play a foundational role in shaping the next phase of the organisation's safety journey.
  
This is not a traditional compliance-focused Safety Advisor role. The priority is to be visible across the operation, build trusted relationships and understand how work is actually performed.
  
The Role
Supporting operations across the Eastern Seaboard, you will act as the eyes and ears of the safety function, spending approximately 80% of your time in the field.
  
Your focus will include:

• Building strong relationships with operational leaders and frontline teams
• Understanding operational risks and the realities of work "as done"
• Providing practical safety advice and support
• Identifying emerging risks, trends and opportunities for improvement
• Supporting incident investigations and organisational learning
• Conducting field-based assurance and verification activities
• Improving safety systems, reporting, processes and documentation
• Contributing to the development of a comprehensive operational risk profile
• Supporting the broader uplift in safety maturity across the business

  
The operating environment includes transport, logistics, equipment, mobile plant and field-based activities, so practical operational experience is important.
  
About You
You will be an experienced Safety Advisor who enjoys being close to operations and building genuine relationships with people at all levels.
  
Experience in transport, logistics, construction, manufacturing, industrial operations, heavy industry, mining or mobile plant environments would be highly relevant.
  
You will bring:

• Practical WHS and risk management experience
• Experience supporting incident investigations
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• A curious, collaborative and solutions-focused approach
• The confidence to challenge respectfully and influence without authority
• The ability to work autonomously across multiple sites
• A genuine willingness to travel across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and regional Queensland as required

  
Experience in injury management, return to work, workers' compensation or assurance would be advantageous, but is not essential.
  
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a business with genuine appetite for change and improvement, where safety has strong senior leadership support.
  
You will have the opportunity to:

• Make a visible and meaningful impact
• Help shape the future safety strategy
• Build strong relationships across a growing national operation
• Work closely with senior safety leadership
• Develop broad operational exposure
• Position yourself for future leadership opportunities as the Eastern Seaboard safety function grows

  
If you're a practical safety professional who believes the best safety outcomes come from working with people, not policing them, we'd like to hear from you.
  
About Applying
At TSS, we embrace individuality and differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, faith and sexual orientation. We strive to provide a recruitment experience that’s fair, inclusive and accessible. We encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role.
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