Health and Safety Advisor | VIC - Melbourne CBD and Inner Suburbs

Job Description

What G4S Can Offer You

Professional Growth - Gain significant learning and development to advance your career.

Impactful Work -Coach and influence senior leaders and contract leads to drive safety culture.

Referral Bonus -We offer uncapped $500 bonuses if you refer someone who joins G4S.

About the Role and Team

As our new Health and Safety Advisor, you'll report to Thomas - Head of Health Safety Environment Quality and Risk. This role is a key position, focusing on coaching and driving safety practices with safety leaders and contract leads. Your main goal will be to advance safety maturity, conduct audits, manage risk, and support compliance frameworks across contracts. Based in Melbourne, Victoria, this role offers a hybrid work model and includes local and national travel for essential site visits.

In the role, you will:

• Drive the development and implementation of comprehensive safety and business assurance frameworks and plans.
• Foster collaborative relationships with business leaders to elevate safety awareness.
• Support robust governance programmes to ensure adherence to safety protocols.
• Develop and implement programmes for monitoring and reviewing HSE performance.
• Champion organisational change initiatives and facilitate continuous learning.
• Forge strategic partnerships with contractors and service providers to mitigate risk.
• Indirectly manage Safety staff employed into contracts.
• Maintain effective liaison with Regional and Group HSEQ teams.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking a highly motivated professional, likely with up to five years of experience, who is eager to grow within the organisation. You should be a self-starter with good coaching skills and the ability to establish governance and reporting processes that involve others, to deliver outcomes. The ideal candidate will have experience in safety plus at least one other area like audit, risk, quality, or environment.

Essential requirements include:

• 4+ years in Safety or a related field.
• Certificate IV Occupational Health and Safety or higher.
• Comfort with senior leader engagement and debate.
• Ability to facilitate groups of people from across a business to solve problems and drive outcomes.
• A strong desire to enable business through safety, not restrict it.

The Recruitment Process

The salary range for this position is $115k–130k. G4S runs a staged recruitment process that includes:

1. Applying online with a CV.
2. Completing a phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team.
3. Attending an interview with our G4S Management team members.
4. Background checks, including a national police check, reference checks, and work rights verification.

About G4S Australia and New Zealand

G4S, An Allied Universal® Company is a leading security and facility services company that provides proactive security services and cutting-edge smart technology to deliver tailored, integrated security solutions. With a workforce of approximately 800,000 employees worldwide and over 2,000 across Australia and New Zealand, we leverage global best practices to help deliver our promise locally: keeping people safe so our communities can thrive. We partner with Government, industries and law enforcement agencies to deliver Integrated Security and Justice Services across a diverse range of portfolios, including Port Phillip Prison, Mount Gambier Prison, Prisoner Transport Operations, Court Security, Custody Centres, Corporate Security, Mobile Speed Cameras, our Support Offices, and more.

For more information about G4S Australia and New Zealand, please visit g4s.com.au. To explore a career with G4S, please visit g4s.com/careers-anz. To hear directly from our staff about why they enjoy working at G4S, visit g4s.com/careers-anz/life-at-g4s.