WHS Business Partner

About the Role

Opera Australia is one of the most distinctive workplaces in the country. Our people design build and perform work of extraordinary scale and ambition and safety is central to making that possible. This is a rare opportunity to bring your WHSexpertiseto an organisation where the work genuinelymattersand no two weeks look the same.

Reporting to the Head of Safety and Wellbeing the WHS Business Partner is the hands-on WHS presence across our diverse deliver OA SAFE our work health and safety program by advising leaders supporting riskincidentand injury management processes and building safety capability across the contribute to practical WHS improvement projects that strengthen the way safety is understoodmanagedand embedded across OA.

Key Responsibilities

• Make risk advice guidance on physical and psychosocial risk that works in live production conditions and coach leaders to own it themselves.
• Turn incidents into learning. Investigate using structuredmethodology(ICAM or equivalent)establishroot cause and drive corrective actions that fix the system rather than the symptom.
• Assure high-risk work. Verify that high-risk activities are being planned controlled carried out in line with agreed controlsand support teams to close gaps before they become incidents.
• Be visible and available. Support our consultation arrangements spend real time where the work happens and make sure concerns raised by workers are heardresolvedand escalated when patternsemerge.
• Support people back to work. Work alongside our injury management and RTW provider to support early intervention and recovery-at-work andcontribute to workerscompensation matters as part of a broader team effort.
• Build capability. Design and deliver training inductions and real-time coaching that shifts how people think about safety not just what they know about it.
• Improve the system. Leadand contribute toWHS projects strengthen OA SAFEframeworksand policiesandtranslate safety data into insight leadership can act on.

About You

Yourean experienced WHS professional who enjoys partnering with people to improve safety outcomes. You combine strong technical knowledge with a practical collaborative approach and are confident influencing stakeholders across a diverse organisation.

You bring sound judgement and genuine initiative. You work well within direction manage competing project and BAU priorities without dropping either and know when to make the call yourself and when to escalate.

Youllbring:

• Tertiary qualifications in Work Health and Safety or a related discipline.
• 5 years in a technical WHS advisory or consulting role partnering with operational leaders in a complex dynamic environment.
• Strong knowledge of Australian WHS legislation Codes of Practice AustralianStandardsand risk management principles.
• Sound judgement and initiative with the ability to prioritise across competing operational and project demands.
• Experience conducting incident investigationsauditsand risk assessments.
• Excellent communication relationshipbuildingand stakeholder engagement skills.
• Working knowledge of psychosocial risk management and workplace wellbeing.
• Strong analyticalorganisationalandproblemsolvingabilitieswithconfidence using WHS data and reporting tools.
• High qualitywriting skills with the ability to develop WHS policies procedures and analysis that are cleardefensibleand aligned with legislative requirements.
• Experiencedeveloping anddelivering WHS trainingcontentor coaching.
• Experience in live production eventsconstructionor another dynamic high-risk operating environment highly regarded.

About Opera Australia

Opera Australia (OA) is Australias national opera company and one of the countrys leading performing arts organisations. With more than 500 performances each year we bring world-class operamusicalsand concerts to audiences across Australia while nurturing Australian talent on and off the stage.

What We Offer

Guided by ourvalues of Curious Creative Collaborative Brave and Inclusive weoffer:

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• Generous leave provisions including wellbeing cultural and parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Salary packaging throughSmartSalary.
• Discounted private health insurance.
• Swag Rewards employee discounts.
• Complimentary tickets to selected Opera Australia performances.

If this sounds like the opportunityyouvebeen looking forwedlove to hear from you.

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Applications close:28 August 2026

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Opera Australia is committed to enabling and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. Our team comes from allwalks of life. We acknowledge that individual differences life experiencesself-expressionand talent strengthen our culture and recruiting for our team we welcome the unique contributions you canbring in terms of education opinions culture ethnicity race sex genderidentityand expression.