Health & Safety Advisor

Te Whiwhinga mahi The Opportunity 

At Contact we believe safety is more than a checklistits about people relationships and making sure everyone gets home safe healthy and happy every day. 

Youll be the bridge between how work is imagined and how its actually done. Your days will be spent where the action happenslistening learning and supporting our people to do their best work safely. Heres a few things we think will help you get more of a feel for the role: 

• Exploring Everyday Work: Get curious at the work fronts understanding what helps teams succeed and what gets in their way. 
• Supporting Work Practices: Cooperate with front-line teams to create safe dependable ways of working. 
• Predicting and Preventing Risks: Work with teams to identify future challenges and areas of uncertainty. 
• Facilitating Learning: Help individuals teams and the wider system learn from both everyday work and unexpected events. 
• Championing Process Safety: Encourage a questioning attitude about what could go wrong and how we can prevent it. 
• Ensuring Compliance: Support alignment with Contacts H&S policies and management systems and help teams meet legislative requirements. 

Qualifications :

Ko wai koe About You 

You care deeply about people and are driven to help them thrive. Youre a lifelong learner a relationship builder and someone whos not afraid to ask whyeven when everything looks good on the surface. 

Youll thrive in this role if you have: 

• Experience in Health and Safety within an industrial environment. 
• Experience managing project and contractor health and safety. 
• High interpersonal capabilityable to build trust and effective relationships at all levels. 
• Skilled facilitation and communication both verbal and written. 
• Confidence to influence and engage groups and deliver H&S education. 
• Integrity and high personal and professional standards. 
• A humanistic people-first approach to safety. 
• The ability to empower others to challenge what doesnt feel right and own safety at the work front. 
• A collaborative spiritready to work closely with our Health & Safety and Generation teams. 

Additional Information :

This role would be preferably based at our Clyde Power Station in the South Island and you will need to travel between our hydro power stations. 

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou  Whats in it for you 

There are a bunch of perks to being a permanent Contact kaimahi. Along with great leadership teammates development and growth and progression opportunities free health insurance cover better-than-your-average leave access to Contact Shares a Good to be Home annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing a trail-blazing parental leave policy bi-annual payments towards Contact Energy products and more! 

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role. 

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko) we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical mental financial and emotional wellbeing including flexible working arrangements employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age stage background and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. Were not about box ticking so if you think you have what it takes but dont meet everything stated above please still get in touch. Wed love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time