Safety Advisor - Online - Hawthorn East

Coles Online Hawthorn East

Requisition ID:  55336  
Employment Type:  Full time  

Good things start here

Hi, we’re Coles Group. Our purpose is to sustainably feed all Australians to help them live healthier, happier lives. We’re an essential part of communities right across the country, with our family of 120,000 team members helping 21 million customers every week. With such a big responsibility, we rely on our brilliant leaders to operate with pace and passion and drive a people first culture, focussed on delighting our customers.
 

About the role

We’re one of Australia’s most iconic and trusted businesses. With over 120,000 team members working across more than 2,400 retail outlets, we provide fresh food, groceries, general merchandise, liquor, and fuel to millions of people every week.

We are proud of the way we support the safety and wellbeing of our team members, suppliers, customers, and broader community – making Safer Choices Together.

As the E-Commerce Safety Business Partner, you will support the development and implementation of the E-Commerce Safety Plan and Risk Profile leading to improvements in safe performance and culture.

Working nationally, you’ll partner with the State E-commerce Teams to coach, mentor and guide the business.

What you’ll be doing

This role will leverage your exceptional stakeholder and influencing skills to passionately deliver a great safety culture within a multi-site business. You will be a trusted expert, providing safety advice to the E-commerce Team to integrate practical safety into decision making and ensure a focus on effective risk reduction.

Other ways you can make an impact:

• Drive safety improvement and risk reduction in E-commerce by reviewing and analysing data to provide insight and actions to develop the E-commerce Safety Risk Profile and safety plan
• Where system failures have been identified, influence the business to make changes and manage these changes from their inception to roll out
• Develop, implement, and manage safety training programmes which factor in national standards, compliance, and safety measures
• Develop, implement, and manage safety management system procedures, forms and tools addressing key operational risks 

Good things you’ll need

We are looking for a safety professional with proven experience, knowledge and skills in Work Health and Safety, Environment, Risk Management, Fleet Safety and/or Food Safety. You have proven success delivering results in a fast paced and dynamic business.

You’ll also need:

• Proven coaching skills of business teams and leaders with the capability to drive behavioural change
• Clear demonstration of ability to incorporate safety requirements while considering commercially viable and practical solutions
• demonstrated experience in a similar advisor/business partner position across a multi-site business
• Qualification in ergonomics or engineering or related discipline highly desirable
• Strong stakeholder management and highly developed influencing skills
• Ability to operate under pressure and with autonomy making risk-based decisions to drive performance improvement
• Highest calibre of communication skills and strong records management skills under quality management system
• Degree/post graduate qualification in health and safety or related discipline and/or at least 3+ years of experience in managing risk and providing practical guidance to businesses on implementation 

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Why Coles?
You’re joining a culture that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success. We’ll invest in you and your career with awesome training, development and leadership programs. You’ll also receive fantastic team member discounts across our supermarkets and brands.

As part of our focus on achieving a gender balanced workforce, we belong to the WORK180 network as an endorsed employer for women. Our commitment to helping all women thrive in the workplace includes initiatives such as our recently updated parental leave policy, flexible working options and our Employee Assistance Program.

You can explore all this and more at our Coles Careers website. 

For everyone who shares our passion
We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability. We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs – so reach out to us at www.careers.colesgroup.com.au > Careers for everyone > Disability employment. 

We’d love to hear from you
If you like the sound of us and you have the skills, experience and motivation to succeed in this role, please take the next step and submit your application.