National Health, Safety

**About the Role**

The National Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager is charged with shaping Ravensdown's future as an industry leader in health, safety and wellbeing—setting new standards, influencing nationally, and ensuring that every worker goes home safe and well, every day.

We are seeking a senior, strategic **HSW Manager** to take our strong foundations and lead us through the next big step change in delivering our HSW Strategy. To get to the next level of HSW maturity you'll utilise your significant experience to shape the mindset and capability of our people and leaders to deliver a proactive, engaged, and resilient safety culture that enhances Ravensdown's reputation as a trusted cooperative.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Drive cultural change by building capability and lifting engagement and leadership.
- Lead and embed a national HSW strategy across a diverse network - manufacturing sites and quarries, to stores and sales.
- Partner directly with the CEO, COO, and executive team, while providing regular specialist advice and assurance to the Board through its newly established HSW Sub-Committee.
- Lead a high-performing team of HSW professionals across multiple sites nationally.
- Build strong internal and external partnerships with regulators, providers, and industry forums.

**About You**

You will bring drive, determination, energy and enthusiasm for progress to the table. With proven strategic leadership in HSW in large, complex/high-risk environments and a deep knowledge of New Zealand's H&S regulatory environment you will hit the ground running. Your strategic mindset will anticipate emerging trends and risks and turn them into forward-looking strategy. You will have significant experience in leading and embedding HSW change across an organisation, and exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Experience in agricultural or manufacturing sectors is highly desirable, as is experience engaging at governance level.

**Benefits**

In return for your skills, we offer a competitive package that includes a range of benefits and a commitment to investing in your continued growth and development. This sits alongside the very real opportunity to make your professional mark and leave a lasting impact on HSW in a critical NZ sector.

**About the Company**

Ravensdown as a co-operative is all about essential farm inputs, and smart people using smart tools with the latest science in mind and our shareholders' interests at heart.

We are an integral part of the food creation process. We are the only co-operative that tests for, advises about, buys, ships, stores, spreads, measures and maps food creating nutrients and fertiliser in a truly integrated way.

Using technology, science, and smart people, we work in partnership with our farmers to provide the nutrients and agronomic solutions they need, together with innovative environmental products and services.

Through this, we are committed to Smarter farming for a better New Zealand, Ka pūkekotia a Rongomātāne, ka poho kererū a Aotearoa

**How to Apply**

Click on the 'Apply' button to create a profile and submit your CV and cover letter to Stephanie Brickland, Senior HR Business Partner.

**Applications close on Sunday, 28 September 2025**
- Ravensdown is committed to a drug
- and alcohol-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug_ _and alcohol_ _test._

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 12538
- Posted on
- 10 Sep 2025
- Closes on
- 28 Sep 2025 23:00
- Location(s)
- Christchurch
- Expertise
- Safety & Wellbeing
- Job level(s)
- Management
- Work type(s)
- Permanent full-time