Health and Safety Advisor - Yallourn

Energy Australia is seeking a Health and Safety Advisor for the Yallourn Power Station in Victoria. The role focuses on enhancing workplace safety and operational efficiency by providing safety services, advising teams, and managing risks. Candidates should have experience in site-based roles within heavy industry and strong knowledge of health and safety regulations. This is a full-time position based on-site at Yallourn.
As one of Australia’s largest energy providers, we are proud of our purpose to lead and accelerate the clean energy transformation for all. We are also proud of our history and of the people who have built our energy capability over the decades, and for the role all our generation sites continue to play in ‘keeping Australia’s lights on’.

About Yallourn

Nestled in Victoria's Latrobe Valley on the traditional lands of the Braiakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai nation, Yallourn Power Station – or simply Yallourn, as the community and we call it – has been providing both state and nation with electricity since 1974.

Yallourn is powered by brown coal produced from Australia's second-largest open cut mine, just next door. Every year, we mine around 18 million tonnes of high moisture brown coal that is used to boil water into a superheated steam that drives Yallourn's four massive turbine generators. Together, these turbines produce 1,480 megawatts of electricity an hour – enough to power about 2 million homes. Today, Yallourn provides 22 per cent of Victoria's electricity, and about 8 per cent of Australia's National Electricity Market.

Yallourn is due to cease generation in mid-2028.

About the role

This position is dedicated to ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of employees by delivering effective safety services and providing advice to the Yallourn Power Station team.

The Advisor will work closely with site teams to enhance workplace safety and operational efficiency with the aim of identifying potential hazards and mitigating risk before it leads to incident.

Duties of the role include:
• Providing advice that enhances the site's existing strengths across a range of health and safety systems and programs
• Undertaking regular field engagements and holding discussions with teams working in the station
• Regularly monitoring and reviewing incidents and actions in the HSSE Management System
• Supporting incident management and investigations
• Chairing HSE meetings and leading safety conversations
• Assisting teams with risk management processes including hazard identification, risk assessment and establishment of suitable controls
• Facilitating and supporting the execution of site targets and objectives and implementing site and enterprise-wide improvement programs
• Assisting the Yallourn site team to operate within EnergyAustralia's Group HSSE management system frameworks

About you

Our successful incumbent will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:
• Prior demonstrated experience in a similar, site-based role within heavy industry (i.e. infrastructure, mining, energy, construction)
• Strong knowledge of health and safety regulations and best practices
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Minimum level of qualification: Certificate IV in Work, Health & Safety

Interested?

If you share our passion for Health and Safety of people then click the 'Apply’ button.

Applications close at 11.59pm Monday 16th June.

For any specific questions please email adam.decaria@energyaustralia.com.au