Health, Safety

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Specialist NZ
- Operations
- Auckland
- Full-time
- New Zealand

JDE is looking for a fixed term Health, Safety & Environment Specialist, or HSE Advisor, to provide professional and structured safety and environment advice to the team across our sites in New Zealand. You would be responsible for our production facility in East Tamaki, where Hummingbird, JED’s, Bell Tea, Ti Ora and Gravity are produced. You’ll also be responsible for HSE for our offices in Auckland and Christchurch as well as for our field Sales teams. This role is critical in driving strong health and safety culture across our teams, leading key initiatives, and driving continuous improvements across health, safety and environment. You’ll be a member of the Leadership Team of our production facility and report to the ANZ Operations Director. You’ll be based at East Tamaki Road and make weekly visits to our headquarters in Highbrook, Auckland. This is a 6-month fixed term opportunity.

Are you up for this challenge?

In this role, you will:

- Deliver the HSE strategy and the annual HSE plan, guiding the overall safety culture of our operations
- Support, coach and mentor Safety Representatives, line managers, HR team members and key stakeholder on safety topics
- Ensure that the Health & Safety Management System (HSMS) is kept up to date
- Provide consistent and clear communications to various stakeholders throughout the organization, including but not limited to formal presentations and management updates
- Support in attaining and maintaining relevant Health & Safety (Tōtika) and environmental (ISO14001) certifications

**Qualifications**:
If you have the courage and confidence to venture into new cultures & territories, and you’re brimming with an entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to succeed, you’ll fit right in at JDE. We roll up our sleeves, pitch in, and get our hands dirty to break new ground. Committed to playing at our best, we think bigger and move faster, always rising to the challenge that matters most and celebrating the wins that count.

For our HSE Specialist, we’re looking for someone who has the following skills and experience:

- Valid NZ unrestricted Work Visa
- 7+ years’ experience as the HSE expert within a medium - large organisation
- A qualification in Health, Safety & Environment is preferred
- Experience working with ISO14001 and ISO22001 standards
- Proven experience driving change and improvement initiatives
- Strong interpersonal communication, and presentation skills (verbal and written) and the ability to communicate with stakeholders across the breadth of our NZ Operations and within our global teams
- Strong ability to influence without direct authority and coach business partners in this skill
- Ability to work under pressure with a high level of integrity and confidentiality and adapt to a changing environment
- Pragmatic thinker with a continuous improvement mindset
- Highly collaborative and co-operative when working as a team, whilst also having strong initiative and
- You’re open to participating in global HSE calls during evening hours (approx. 1x per fortnight)
- Proficient in the Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Additional Information

**What’s in it for you?**
- Competitive salary with contributions to your KiwiSaver
- The opportunity to be responsible for HSE in a leading company with a NZ production facility that produces some of NZ’s most famous brands
- Delicious coffee and tea on-site and quarterly free staff orders
- Free parking at our Auckland sites
- A supportive, experienced and enthusiastic team to work alongside
- JDE Peets is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate and value our differences and are committed to building a safe and inclusive work environment where everyone can be their true selves. Do not hesitate to reach out if you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process._

JDE is a subsidiary of JDE Peet’s, the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in the Netherlands. For more than 265 years, JDE has been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. Today, JDE unleashes the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries, through a portfolio of over 50 brands including Moccona, L’OR, Hummingbird, Bell Tea, Jacobs, Jed’s, Pickwick and more.

**What’s it like to work at JDE?**

We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious - JDE: A coffee & tea for every cup.

At JDE, we're Made to Stand Out. Every day we are progressive in outlook, ambitious in nature, resourceful in action and decisive in approach, bringing coffee and tea moments to everyone around the world. We care about our environment and have a sustainability program in place called Common Grounds focused on Responsible Sourcing, Minimised Footprint