Health and Safety Business Partner

• Full Time
• Application Closes 28 Nov 2024
• Taranaki - New Plymouth
• Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Health and Safety Business Partner to join our team at Port Taranaki.

The opportunity

We are seeking a motivated and dynamic individual that can collaborate across all levels to support successful delivery of our health, safety, and wellness initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to play an important part in our improvement journey and contribute to our long-term success. Reporting to the Health and Safety Manager, the key responsibilities will include:

• Being a visible presence around the business to provide health and safety leadership and coaching, while building relationships, and promoting good practices. 
• Supporting the organisation to meet our statutory Health and safety obligations, as well as with keeping up with legislative changes and providing ongoing advice across all levels of the business. 
• Assisting the Health & Safety Manager in designing and implementing strategic health and safety priorities, while conducting assurance activities and using insights to develop data-driven initiatives.
• Providing expert H&S input for long-term planning and administering our Risk Manager system.
• Leading major event responses and investigations and supporting risk reduction through the critical risk review program.
• Contributing to monthly and annual reporting for the Executive Leadership team and Board, while maintaining statistical records, and analysing trends.
• Managing workplace injury cases, collaborate with HR on integrating wellness initiatives, contribute to wellness strategy development, conduct workforce health assessments, and engage with external vendors to enhance wellness programs.

About you

You are a go-getter who can be agile in your day-to-day work, in setting yourself up for success you ideally also have:

• A formally recognised qualification in the field of health and safety.
• Working experience in a health and safety position where you also used your knowledge of NZ health and safety legislation.
• Expertise in hazard, risk, and critical risk management, including process safety and contractor management.
• Skilled in H&S business management systems and incident investigations (ICAM or similar).
• Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficient in safety principles, problem-solving, and delivery.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Customer-focused, collaborative, and team-oriented.
• Competent in the Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience in coaching, facilitation, and Permit to Work systems would be an advantage. 

Our values

At Port Taranaki our values guide us on how we act with one another and how we make decisions within our business. Demonstration of these values will be key to your success:

• Our people come first: we take care of each other and our communities.
• Integrity guides us: we trust each other and act with respect and honesty, even when it is challenging.
• We embrace the future: we strive for improvement through innovation and learning.
• We collaborate to succeed: we work as a team, helping each other succeed.

What we offer

Port Taranaki is an important economic and supply chain asset for Taranaki and beyond – connecting our key regional industries with the world. We are prepared for change and embracing new ways of working, ensuring we continue to deliver for our customers, and the region, in being the Pride of Taranaki.

We offer an environment where continuous learning and professional development is encouraged, as well as the ability to work autonomously - expertise and guidance at hand when you need it. We consider your wellbeing to be a priority and we support you with great flexibility initiatives as well as having a respectful approach to diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace.

If this sounds like an opportunity you would enjoy, and you're motivated to contribute to the overall success of Port Taranaki Limited, please apply now with your CV and Cover Letter. We will begin reviewing applications as they arrive - including conducting interviews. We will close this role when a successful candidate has been appointed.

All candidates must already hold the required residency status to work in New Zealand and be able to satisfy a Ministry of Justice Criminal background check, and a financial credit check.