Job Description

About the Opportunity

With safety prioritised above all else at Boral, we look out for each other and are committed to zero harm across our vast, vertically-integrated national business. An opportunity exists for a proactive and energetic Health & Safety Business Partner to join our national Health and Safety team, supporting our South Australian and Tasmanian Concrete & Quarries business. This role will be based in Adelaide and candidates must have the flexibility to travel to various sites across TAS and SA. To support in this, you will be provided with a motor vehicle allowance.

Reporting to a Business Unit General Manager and Head of Business Partnering Health & Safety, your primary focus is to support our TAS & SA Concrete & Quarries Business ensuring that business unit level issues are understood, controls are implemented and compliance and assurance measures reviewed. Working closely with the frontline, this is a key role in delivering strong alignment between operational risks and health and safety controls and will enable safety improvements and standardisation of processes across our network of concrete plants and quarries in South Australia and Tasmania.

Operating as a true business partner, you will relish the opportunity to travel to a range of concrete plants and quarries on a regular basis to engage with leaders and employees on site and really understand their challenges, creating learning opportunities from issues and incidents to enable them to perform more effectively.

This is a permanent, full-time opportunity.

Duties and responsibilities for the role include:

• Constructively working with and supporting operational leaders on risk management
• Building operational teams health and safety capacity by providing specialist health and safety advice, support and coaching
• Supporting the roll out and implementation of the Boral Health & Safety Strategy and Business Unit Plan
• Facilitation and management of incident response and subsequent analysis and learnings
• Supporting the operations in appropriate preparation, management and response to HSE Regulatory Compliance inspections, audits, statutory reports and prescribed incident notifications
• Facilitating the implementation of the HSEQ Management System & National Programs
• Ensure Assurance Audits are completed in line with the Audit and Assurance Program and monitor closeout of WHS actions

What are we looking for?

• A positive and proactive approach with a willingness and commitment to partnering with and supporting operational teams
• Proven experience in a similar role, ideally with strong skills in incident investigations and facilitating learnings from incidents
• Proven experience in a similar role within a high-risk environment & implementing successful organisational change within complex environments
• Knowledge of WHS regulations, systems, processes and Information Systems
• Cert IV or Diploma in Work Health & Safety
• Superior interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and communication skills with a natural ability to build solid relationships.

What’s on Offer?

• Motor vehicle allowance
• Permanent, full-time opportunity
• Access to a variety of support networks including Boral Employee Assistance Program
• Join an industry aimed at offering value to the community & committed to Zero Harm
• Iconic market leader committed to driving sustainable outcomes
• We are Australian-owned and operated
• Opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Generous paid parental leave entitlements.

About Boral

We are Australia’s leading vertically-integrated construction materials solution provider and have been helping to build and enable a strong, modern Australia for more than 75 years. Our integrated network includes upstream assets – quarries, cement operations and our bitumen JV - and downstream operations across, recycling, concrete and concrete placing and asphalt.

Our people provide solutions to help customers and stakeholders build a sustainable future in a changing world. Our values are what matters to us and guide our behaviours: Safety, Teamwork, Ambition, Accountability and Respect

We’re proud of our legacy as a great Australian business and have a strong foundation to improve and continue fulfilling our purpose and what we do best - building something great.

Boral values and is committed to creating a diverse working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All suitable applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability or age.

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