Injury Prevention Specialist

2 weeks ago


Mangere East, New Zealand COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT Full time

**Ready to make an impact?**

We’re looking for an Injury Prevention Specialist to join our Safety team here in Aotearoa reporting to our Safety Engineering - Capability Lead in this 2 year fixed term capacity.

Joining our team you’ll take accountability for developing and implementing prevention programs and initiatives to reduce the risk of work related injuries and illnesses.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**

This role will partner strongly with other teams, including the business to target reduction in our key mechanisms for injury such as manual handling, slips & trips, cuts, hit/struck by objects.

You will be responsible for:

- Leading as an Ergo champion, participatory ergonomic sprints for hazard identification, risk solution ideation and trail, and drive solution rollout & deployment.
- Developing business cases to outline justification for OPEX and/or CAPEX investment for injury prevention
- Developing, piloting and implementing injury prevention programs and initiatives that target our key mechanisms for injury
- Developing training materials, conducting workshops, completing coaching etc to enable rollout of injury prevention programs
- Working with our data analysts or as the lead to complete detailed analysis of Early intervention data, first aid and recordable data etc to enable insights into improvements in injury prevention programs Analysing user feedback, injury & incident reports, and performance data to inform injury prevention program design & deployment and where targeted hot spot interventions are needed

**About You | Mōu**

To succeed in this role you will need to be an excellent communicator with interpersonal skills and have the experience of developing and implementing intervention plans across large organisations

If you’re the sort of individual who strives to always do the right thing for customers, team, our communities, and our business then we ought to connect.

To be successful in this position, you will have 4 years work experience, ideally within retails, warehousing or similar fast paced environment, coupled with ideally a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a health related field (e.g. occ. Therapy, physio, exercise physiology) and/or safety degree

**Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ**

Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day.

We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you’ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem

Countdown
Cartology, Vineonline & CountdownX
Primary Connect
Wholesale Distributors Limited (Fresh Choice)

We are proud to be a Work 180 endorsed employer for all women, view the great work we do here.

**Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai**

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou



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