Senior Adviser Safety

Senior Adviser - Safety & Wellbeing
**Role type**: Permanent
**Location**: Wellington
**General Salary Range D**: $98,955 - $132,427 depending on skills and experience
Applications from MPI employees with Affected status will be given priority consideration.
Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
People may be surprised where MPI's work takes our people
We operate across the country in a range of environments from paddocks, orchards, forest, and oceans to airports, ports, transitional facilities, and corporate offices. Whether working over water, protecting our borders, or traversing our country's regions, the days are never the same.
MPI's internal Safety and Wellbeing team contribute to the promotion of our people's health, safety and wellbeing as they work in those environments. We work collaboratively as a team, implementing and maintaining organisational health and safety frameworks, and providing advice and support across MPI. We also promote practices and culture across MPI's diverse range of business areas, and embed risk management in to our HSW processes.
We can promise the work will be incredibly interesting, diverse, and sometimes challenging. This is a role where there is a real opportunity for you to innovate, improve, and make a sustainable difference in the health, safety, and wellbeing space.
Mōu - About You
We are looking for an experienced Senior Adviser who can continue to promote our health safety and wellbeing practices. To do this you will need to have:

- Relevant health and safety qualifications and/or proven health, safety, and wellbeing experience working for a multi-site, complex organisation (and preferably within a high risk environment or industry)
- Experience in critical risk management and contract management
- Strong verbal and written communication skills (including the ability to write concise reports for Governance as required)
- The ability to work collaboratively and lead engagement with stakeholders.
- Relevant experience in training and coaching to build capability across an organisation

Additionally, you will be flexible and willing to jump in and help out when other team members are under the pump.
Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
The wider central Health, Safety and Wellbeing team is a team of 11 with a mix of Advisers and Seniors who are really passionate about collaborating and promoting ongoing health, safety, and wellbeing across MPI. This role reports to the Manager Strategy and Assurance within a smaller team of 4 advisers.
Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.
Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.
Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
Applications close at midnight on Tuesday 27 August
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