Work Health and Safety Advisor Automotive (RepcoNAPA) Rowville

Work Health & Safety Advisor - Automotive (Repco/NAPA)

We are seeking an experienced Safety professional who is passionate about people and ready to take the next step in their career. This role is ideal for someone who believes that strong relationships visible leadership and genuine engagement are the foundations of a positive safety culture.

Experience within a similar operational multi-site or industry-aligned environment is essential as you will be partnering closely with leaders and frontline teams to embed practical people-led safety practices into everyday work.

About the Role

You will work alongside leaders and teams to strengthen safety leadership capability build accountability and create an environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute to safer outcomes. This is a hands-on relationship-driven role focused on coaching influencing and driving outcomes for continuous improvement.

(Experience in a similar industry or operational environment is essential)

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders and frontline teams to embed our Health Safety and Environment (HSE) framework into everyday operations.
• Coach and mentor managers to confidently lead safety within their teams strengthening ownership accountability and engagement.
• Build capability in operational leaders to effectively implement our Safety Management System and foster a positive proactive safety culture.
• Support leadership teams in managing incidents with care and professionalism including leading investigations and identifying meaningful corrective actions.
• Develop leaders skills in incident investigation to ensure thorough fair and constructive outcomes. Maintain and monitor company Investigation Register.
• Partner with the Group WHS Team to develop clear engaging safety communications such as Safety Shares and tailored toolbox talks.
• Support the delivery of safety engagement initiatives aligned to our Safety Communications Calendar including activities such as Safety Week.
• Role model and promote company values policies and our Code of Conduct ensuring ongoing compliance with workplace health and safety legislation.

About You:

You are a relationship-driven safety professional who understands that meaningful safety improvement starts with people. You are confident working in operational environments and have experience in a similar business or industry.

Required Skills & Experience

• Formal qualification in Workplace Health & Safety (or related discipline).
• Experience in a similar industry or operational multi-site environment (essential).
• Minimum 2 years experience within the Safety field
• Demonstrated ability to coach influence and build capability in leaders and teams.
• Strong communication skills with experience facilitating risk assessments and practical safety conversations.
• Proven ability to influence decisions and achieve balanced practical safety outcomes.
• Experience implementing or rolling out safety systems and safety culture improvement initiatives.
• Solid experience managing incident response reporting and investigations.
• Ability to build strong trusted working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.

Looking after you:

We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked addition to a rewarding and challenging career we will provide:

• Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
• Private health insurance discounts
• Employee assistance program
• A highly safety conscious work environment
• We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
• Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
• Access to GPCs exciting employee platform MOVE unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers business announcements e-cards and our employee recognition program plus so much more!

GPC Asia Pacific

Movement is in our DNA. We are GPC Asia Pacific: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco NAPA McLeod Accessories and Motion Industries.

Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.

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