Central Coast Council

Section Manager Health and Safety

Exciting new leadership role that will positively impact workplace health and safety. Leading a team of work health and safety professionals come and help Rewrite the Future in creating a positive organisational wide safety culture and continuous improvement.

• New created strategic leadership role
• Lead the WHS function to drive continuous improvement and a positive organisational wide safety culture
• Access to flexible working options with a competitive salary

About the role

This newly created role will be instrumental in supporting senior management to create a safety culture and creating a strong work health and safety management system that will provide structure and support to business units including workplace policies, risk assessment and supporting system tools.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Degree qualifications in Work Health and Safety or a related discipline
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Lead Auditor qualifications
• Class C drivers licence
• previous experience in a similar role working in a large self-insured organisation
• proven success as a leader with the ability to grow and develop teams focused on quality outcomes and a customer focus
• extensive experience in a similar Work Health and Safety senior leadership role in a large complex organisation including experience in managing safety issues at an industry level
• comprehensive experience in developing and implementing work health and safety management and compliance frameworks, including developing policies, systems, processes, auditing and monitoring of programs; 
• extensive experience in managing incident activities, investigation of workplace occurrences and developing measures and strategies that prevent the reoccurrence of incidence and to mitigate potential risk
• strong working knowledge of WHS legislation, Codes of Practice and Australian Standards to deliver specialist advice, detailed reports and recommendations
• strong interpersonal skills with the ability to confidently present to senior executives and large groups combined with the ability build strong, credible relationships and influence, persuade or negotiate outcomes with management and regulators to benefit or add value, to all or part of the organisation
• demonstrated leadership behaviours, including active communication with the team in regard to performance, business strategy, diversity, coaching and mentoring and change management.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $120,498.15 to $144,586.83 pa (dependent on skills and experience) plus 11.5% superannuation plus vehicle allowance
• We have a permanent full-time available
• This role will be able to access a 19 day month
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role - up to 2 days from home and 3 days onsite depending on operational needs
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits 

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.