Quality, Health and Safety Manager

3 weeks ago


Christchurch, New Zealand Orion Group Full time

We are looking for a Quality, Health and Safety (QHS) Manager to enhance and embed our health and safety performance and critical risk awareness and capability. You will actively support your team and enable our leaders to continuously drive a committed and focused H&S culture. Your ability to get alongside your team and our people is critical as you provide leadership and guidance while offering supportive advice, delivery and strategic direction. If you are able to bring people together with a resilience and passionate for what you do, we want to talk to you.

**About us**

Passionate, curious, and innovative are a few words that describe our people. We are powering the future, connecting communities, and igniting innovation. Orion owns and operates the electricity distribution network that provides power to central Canterbury. As the third largest electricity distribution network in New Zealand, we cover remote rural areas, regional towns, and the city of Christchurch.

We are an essential service and take our responsibilities seriously. We are community owned and working here means a career with meaning and purpose that makes a difference in your very own neighbourhood.

**The role**
- Create, lead and role model clear committed behaviours while driving a continuous improvement culture and focused vision
- Lead and foster a positive and customer focused team environment where people can openly learn, develop, lead and achieve
- Improve the Orion Network quality, health and safety strategies, policies and procedures and develop an effective critical risk program
- Provide guidance, advice, support and expertise to the wider business ensuring awareness of our responsibilities under the H&S At Work Act (2015) and relevant legislation
- Ensure our safety management systems, practices and audit data is robust and fit for purpose
- Review and monitor quality audits and investigations including H&S legislation updates and changes are communicated

**About you**
- Relevant tertiary qualification and/or extensive experience in a high risk, complex and technical environment - sector knowledge will be an advantage but not essential
- Proven experience and ability to lead, develop, influence and motivate a team of H&S professionals
- Extensive knowledge of relevant regulations, safety legislations and H&S At Work Act (2015)
- Experience in leading, executing and monitoring internal and external audits
- Ability to identify innovative solutions with a collaborative approach to decision making and best practice requirements
- Ability to communicate, engage and influence at a high level across a wide range of stakeholders

**We offer**

You’ll find at Orion, you can come as you are and just be you. You will be joining a workplace that values who you are, the work you do, and the way you think. Importantly, we offer:

- Flexible working arrangements, and flexible locations with our Head office in Burnside and satellite offices in Rolleston and Ferrymead
- Three days of “My Days” leave
- A broad range of workplace benefits from a wellbeing allowance to access to our holiday house in Hanmer

You might be surprised to find out that the company that brings the power to your home is innovative, inclusive, progressive, and quite good fun.

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