Technical Safety Engineering Manager

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 11-Sep-2024- Advertising Ends- 18-Sep-2024- Country- New Zealand- Location- Canterbury, Hamilton & North Waikato, Northland, Southland, Taranaki, Taupo & Southern Waikato- Role Type- Engineering- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 9967**Position Description**:
**Our Co-operative**

**Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini**
- We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.
- As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.
- When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.
- **About us | Whakapā mai**
- We are embracing a new vision and strategic direction with a centralised engineering, capital & technical group for COO. Global Engineering & Technical represents a transformative step in our journey towards engineering excellence and strategic innovation to deliver our long term asset strategy within COO. It will drive positive change by enhancing strategic delivery, efficiency, and agility, streamline risk management, standardise operations, simplify processes, improve communication and enhance career pathways for engineers within a recognised centre of excellence, ensuring a sustainable future.
- **About the opportunity | Te whai waahi**
- As Technical Safety Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading the Technical Safety team in the development and implementation of technical and socio-technical safety standards within COO.You will collaborate to set the strategic Technical Safety direction and prioritise safety initiatives whilst ensuring engineering projects and operations meet the highest safety standards, minimising risks and protecting personnel and assets.Key Accountabilities include:
- Leading and developing a team that serves as a deep knowledge hub contributing technical safety expertise, problem solving and capabilities.
- Championing a culture of technical and socio-technical safety and collaborating HS&W teams to align and implement safety specifications.
- Maintaining Regulatory Compliance and keeping current with regulatory changes
- Coach others to complete expert risk assessments and develop control plans; ensuring safety by design and ongoing assurance activity is established and maintained for hazardous technology safety, including Functional Safety.
- Provide holistic safety training, including human factors and organisational culture.
- Lead investigations and implement corrective actions to prevent occurrences.
- Identification and evaluation of machine hazards and risks associated with the engineering assets, processes, and systems supported within COO.

**About you | Moe koe**
- With a strong tenure in engineering safety leadership, ideally in functional safety, process safety and dust/powder safety, you will have demonstratable experience in inspiring and leading across diverse and cross-functional teams in a manufacturing or large asset-owning environment. As an effective communicator and coach you will build capability in others and maintain positive relationships and networks across all levels of internal teams as well as external stakeholders.
- You will also have a proven track record of implementing safety systems and systematic assurance measures, and have a strong knowledge of safety regulations, human factors and best practice in socio-technical systems.
- A technical safety qualification is also strongly desired.
- **Our story | To Tatou Korero**
- Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.
- Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
- Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
- Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
- Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
- Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.
- Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.