Work Health & Safety Operations Lead

The Northern Land Council is seeking a full-time Work Health & Safety Operations Lead based in Darwin or Katherine, NT, Australia. The role involves providing guidance on health and safety practices, coaching internal stakeholders, and enhancing a safety-first culture. Candidates should have significant experience in WH&S, strong analytical skills, and the ability to travel within the Top End. A diploma in WH&S and relevant experience are required.
Work Health and Safety Operations Lead
• Location: Darwin or Katherine
• Status: Full-time – Permanent contract

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 @ work (WH&S@W) 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@W!

If you are keen to be part of making 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 of WH&S and minimum of 5 years’ practical experience in a similar role OR minimum 8 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 refer to the link provided below.

What’s in it for you?
• NLC offers competitive and attractive remuneration, work life balance and a unique opportunity to support our Aboriginal communities in the NLC Region.
• This position has a commencing base salary of $110,763 per annum
• In addition to base salary, you will receive:
• 14.5% superannuation;
• District allowance starting at $2,539 per annum
• Upon completion of 12 months of service an Annual airfare with a net (in hand) value of $2,724;
• Generous leave entitlements such as 5 weeks annual leave, leaving loading, 18 days personal leave, and paid Christmas close down;
• Salary packaging benefits of up to $15,900 and additional Meal Entertainment and Holiday Accommodation benefits up to $2,650 per year.

About The NLC

The Northern Land Council (NLC) is an independent statutory authority of the Commonwealth. The NLC is established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) 1976 and its purpose is to serve its constituents who are Traditional Owners (TOs) and other Aboriginal people living in their region. Cultural knowledge and lived experience are central to the work that we do here at NLC. We are committed to enhancing Aboriginal peoples social, political and economic participation by supporting their aspirations and amplifying their voices on a range of issues impacting on their lands, seas, culture and communities.

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