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The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, who are committed to serving people in need in our community and shaping a more just and compassionate society.

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• Be part of a dedicated team focused on building a culture that supports safety.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Competitive salary + motor vehicle package + salary packaging tax-free benefits: increasing annual take-home pay. 

Your Role

As the Senior Safety Partner for our Commercial Enterprise, Retail and Fundraising (CERF) directorate,  you'll collaborate with leaders across a diverse range of areas to help build a constructive culture that enables positive outcomes for our employees and volunteers.

Utilising your excellent leadership skills you will engage deeply with the business to understand the context, facilitate problem solving and support the implementation of tailored solutions to address operational challenges and manage critical safety risks associated with warehousing, transport and logistics.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to plan, shape and implement critical safety programs
• Lead by influence, coaching, guiding and building safety capability in others
• Deliver expert safety advice while empowering local leaders to take the lead on action
• Lead investigations that turn incident learnings into transformative action across the organisation
• Develop and roll out organisation-wide programs addressing critical risks in warehousing, transport, and logistics
• Conduct regular site visits to understand the operating context, verify implementation of our safety management standards and collaborate with teams to resolve safety challenges with practical, hands-on solutions.

You Will Need

• Driver licence & willingness to regularly travel to undertake site visits at metropolitan and regional locations across the state
• Tertiary qualifications in Work Health and Safety or a related field
• Practical experience working as a safety professional, with strong knowledge of legislation and industry standards in transport, warehousing, and logistics
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Proven ability to mentor senior employees in cultural and behavioural change
• Skilled in risk assessments, inspections, audits and incident investigations
• Experience developing safety and compliance programs in complex environments.

Apply Now 

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - Apply Now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.

If you have questions about this role, please email Matthew Mitchell [Director, Safety and Emergency Management] [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Safety Partner - Commercial Enterprise, Retail and Fundraising enquiry via EthicalJobs.

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.