Health and Safety Associate Manager

Role: Employee Relations and Policies Associate Manager   

Location: Sydney/Melbourne 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

We seek a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our organization as Health, Safety and Wellbeing Associate Manager.

The role will collaborate closely with local and global stakeholders to implement and monitor Health and Safety strategy, governance, and operating model tailored for the Australian and New Zealand market units.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing and implementing safety programs at the corporate and project levels under the guidance of the Health and Safety Manager.
• Lead and facilitate risk assessments to improve psychosocial safety.
• Provide expert health and safety advisory to key stakeholders for a broad range of matters including general health & safety risk management, non-work related serious illness, return to work plans and psychosocial risk.
• Review health and safety data to identify emerging risks and trends
• Action identified risks and prepare monthly reports
• Work closely with local stakeholders to learn and ensure WHS compliance with client requirements and local regulations.

Skills and Experience:

• Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety, Diploma of WHS, or Graduate Certificate WHS or working toward pre-mentioned.
• Strong people relationship skills

Demonstrated experience in the following desirable with 3-5 years similar work experience

• supporting health and safety initiatives within a large/global company.
• risk management of a variety work environment types (eg corporate, manufacturing, public sector)
• analytical problem-solving skills, with a growing ability to use data for decision-making.
• ability to effectively communicate Health and safety principles and advisory to diverse audiences.
• Exposure to managing third-party accounts, such as EAP providers and workers compensation insurers.
• development of collaborative return to work plans
• diverse range of experience with workplace adjustments and advisory to support employee performance

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia and New Zealand:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.
 

We encourage applications from all people with the relevant skillset, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require any accommodations or adjustments for interviews and/or at work, please reach out to exectalent@accenture.com or contact us at +61 2 9005 5000 (Australia) or +64 44666056 (New Zealand).
 

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Key Requirement: Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency required due to nature of role

• With 3-5 years similar work experience
• supporting health and safety initiatives within a large/global company.
• risk management of a variety work environment types (eg corporate, manufacturing, public sector)
• development, implementation and periodic revision of health and safety management systems, policies, and procedures.
• conducting internal audits, risk assessments and incident investigations
• analytical and problem-solving skills, with a growing ability to use data for decision-making.
• ability to effectively communicate Health and safety principles and advisory to diverse audiences.
• Exposure to managing third-party accounts, such as EAP providers and workers compensation insurers.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. 

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

 
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement