Job Description

About Us

Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches food suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, including some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety to deliver on their commitments.

What you’ll Do

Americold is seeking an experienced, proactive Safety Manager to provide critical operational safety support across six Queensland sites. This is a true business partnering role — working shoulder to shoulder with operational leaders while driving safety excellence, workers' compensation management, and return-to-work outcomes.

If you thrive in a field-based, hands-on environment and love influencing leaders to lift safety performance, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

As the QLD Safety Manager, you will coordinate, guide, and elevate safety, workers' compensation, and return‑to‑work functions across multiple high-performing operational sites. You’ll act as the trusted advisor to site leadership, embedding safe practices, leading investigations, and shaping a proactive safety culture.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys autonomy, problem-solving, and partnering closely with the business to deliver practical safety outcomes.

Essential Functions

• Provide hands-on safety coaching and support to operational leaders, empowering them to lead safety effectively.
• Implement and maintain safety and RTW systems across QLD, ensuring consistency and compliance.
• Lead serious incident investigations, support site risk assessments, and drive risk‑management strategies.
• Manage workers' compensation and return‑to‑work processes, including insurer liaison, early intervention, and rehabilitation planning.
• Conduct risk and trend analysis, providing actionable insights and improvement recommendations to site management.
• Drive safety improvement programs and awareness initiatives across all sites.
• Champion safety culture through behaviours, communication, and regular BBS engagement.
• Coordinate state safety reporting, audits, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Collaborate as a true business partner, building strong relationships and fostering a cooperative, solution-focused approach.
• Spend significant time in the field (approx. 70%), travelling across sites and assessing operations — including cold‑storage environments below freezing.

What Experience and Education You Need

• Tertiary qualifications in Safety or equivalent post-secondary studies.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Safety.

• Strong influencing skills with the ability to make and execute effective decisions.

• Experience within manufacturing and/or logistics environments, including managing high MHE (Material Handling Equipment) traffic and associated risk controls.

• Proven experience in RTW/Rehabilitation processes and safety compliance.

• Strong analytical, coaching, and problem-solving capabilities.

• High attention to detail with strong planning and organisational skills.

• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities.

• Advanced communication skills with the ability to mentor and coach leaders.

• Proficiency in Windows, Outlook, Webex, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Warehouse Management Systems.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The Company makes reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.

What We Offer:

At Americold, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits designed to support your well-being, growth, and lifestyle.

This includes access to ongoing leadership development programs to strengthen your capabilities and advance your career, as well as a Fitness Passport to keep you active and healthy. We offer flexible work arrangements to help you balance work and life, along with travel discounts and novated leasing options that make everyday life more affordable. You’ll also have access to Sonder, our 24/7 employee wellbeing and safety portal, providing confidential support whenever you need it.