Senior Health Safety and Environment Partner

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Vector Limited Full time

**Job Description** About Us**
Vector operates a range of innovative businesses delivering energy and communication services to more than 600,000 homes and commercial customers across Aotearoa and the Pacific. We are a dynamic organisation in transition, leading in a sector that is undergoing massive transformation, working on critical projects that are global in reach and significance.

If you think you’ll thrive working in a sector undergoing significant transformation, then being part of the team creating this new energy future for New Zealand is certainly going to energise your career.

**About the role**
In this 12 Months Fixed-Term, hands-on senior role - you will proactively partner with our OnGas business unit teams and managers as a safety leader and change agent to ensure that HSE culture and performance expectations are achieved, barriers actively managed and new and fresh thinking to safety is embraced. This role coul be based in Auckland or Hamilton, whichever suits you. In this role you will also:

- Provide accurate, timely and highly professional HSE advice, tools and guidance
- Work with operational teams to identify opportunities for improvement
- Build relationships with people leaders, field workers and contracting partners which promote safe work practices and outcomes. Travel to different OnGas sites across New Zealand a minimum of once a month
- Assist with prequalification of contractors and contractor management
- Carry out or support incident investigations and assurance and auditing programmes, traveling to OnGas sites around the country
- Provide input into business projects, safety in design, and generally work collaboratively across the organisation
- Work with teams to establish, maintain and ensure safe systems of work are embedded and a safe environment is created for operational resources
- Provide expert advice to ensure Vector complies with current health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance
- Support the preparation and completion of internal and external audits and work with the business to address any conformance issues.

**Who we are looking for**
It’s important to Vector to keep our great HSE culture moving forward, therefore you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

- 5 + years’ experience in health and safety leadership, preferably working within a high hazard industry
- A strong record of delivering safety leadership within a large organisation
- Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment knowledge and Incident investigation experience
- Excellent working knowledge of industry Codes of Practice and of New Zealand’s Health, Safety, and Environmental regulatory framework,
- Be a people person who successfully builds relationships, has experience of partnering with stakeholder and creates change by supporting others
- You will be naturally inquisitive and intuitive, and looking to work in a forward-thinking organisation
- You will be able to juggle multiple and changing priorities
- You will be able to travel to different OnGas sites around the country at least once a month
- Auditing qualifications and/or lead auditor experience desired
- A qualification in Health & Safety and/or Environmental is desired.

**What we can offer you**
We love working together to create a new energy future. If you want to be part of an organisation with a real and tangible purpose, Vector could be the place for you.
We offer:

- A fun, flexible and stimulating work environment, full of interesting work being done by smart people
- Work in a small, high performing team, in a fast paced and innovative environment
- Flexibility, including the choice of working from home a couple of days a week, and flexible start and finish times so you can balance work and life
- Health and wellbeing support
- Great benefits that reflect the importance of family

Vector engages a workforce made up of people and teams with diverse skills, values, backgrounds and experiences. We respect and value people who are different from each other, including gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, race and religion. We are proud of what we have achieved so far:

- First corporate Living Wage Accredited employer
- First Accessibility Tick employer
- Rainbow Tick accredited
- Winner of three gongs at the 2019 Diversity Awards NZ, including the Supreme Award in 2019 and 2020.



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