Senior Adviser Health, Safety

1 week ago

Christchurch, New Zealand NZ Ministry for Primary Industries Full time

**Senior Adviser - Health, Safety & Wellbeing**

**Role type**: Permanent full-time

**Location**: Otautahi (Christchurch)

**Salary band & range**: General Salary Range D - $100,934 to $118,005 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

The Senior Adviser, Health, Safety & Wellbeing, is a key member of the Border Clearance Services team within Biosecurity New Zealand. In this role, you will provide expert advice and support to promote a consistent, effective, and sustainable approach to operational health and safety management.

Your primary focus will be to collaborate with the Border Clearance Services Managers to strengthen health, safety, and wellbeing capabilities and systems. You will play a pivotal role in aligning workplace practices with Border Clearance Services standards, while ensuring robust systems are in place to lead, coordinate, and implement enhanced strategies for managing health and safety risks.

Travel will also be required to be undertaken as part of this role and you must have a full clean drivers licence.

**About You - Mou**

This is a hands-on operational role, requiring a minimum of five years' experience in health and safety within a medium to large operational organisation. Ideally, you will also bring knowledge of New Zealand government regulatory frameworks and experience working in operational environments.

You will have a proven track record in project management and in delivering health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives. Your strong oral and written communication skills, along with your ability to present effectively, will support your capability to manage, coordinate, and enhance collaborative work processes.

**About the Team - Mo to matou Ropu**

The role is part of the Biosecurity Central/South Team within the Border Clearance Services (BCS) directorate of Biosecurity New Zealand. BCS is accountable for ensuring the delivery of sustainable and effective frontline biosecurity clearance services at the border for imported goods, craft, mail, passengers, crew and Transitional Facilities.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

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.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Annual wellness payment
- Biennial paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames.

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; 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 27 July 2025**

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