Who we are

In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.

As caretakers for Melbourne’s water cycle, and our catchments. We care for water, life, and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.

Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, or kayak down the Yarra we’re there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world’s cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home, just as we have for over 130 years.

About the Role

Join us as a Senior Safety Advisor and make a real impact—working side-by-side with operational teams and contractors to strengthen safe behaviours, lift performance, and deliver practical safety improvements where it matters most. You’ll be a visible, trusted safety partner in the field, providing pragmatic, risk-based advice to leaders and teams, supporting high-risk activities and incident investigations, and helping embed a strong, proactive safety culture across Melbourne Water’s operational portfolios (excluding Major Capital Delivery). This is a hands-on role where you’ll build capability, drive continual improvement, and help ensure compliance—creating safer outcomes for our people, customers, and community.

• Lead hazard identification and safety improvements across allocated portfolios, ensuring hazards are reported and acted on.
• Provide expert, practical safety and culture advice to leaders and teams (risk management, compliance/assurance, safe behaviours, procedures, and safety culture.)
• Be a visible field-based “go-to” safety partner, representing the safety leadership team on-site and supporting frontline decision-making.
• Manage complex safety matters including case management, support for high-risk activities, and incident investigations through on-site involvement.
• Drive compliance and continuous improvement by supporting regulatory compliance, reviewing MW safety procedures, and using data/field intelligence to identify trends and priorities.

For more information, please refer to the attached Role Mandate 

Become a visible, trusted safety partner—with real scope to shape and embed a safety culture across Melbourne Water

About you:

• Proven experience supporting a complex operational environment, working closely with field teams and leaders.
• Practical experience applying a risk-based approach, supporting regulatory compliance, and contributing to assurance/audit outcomes.
• Demonstrated capability in case management, supporting complex safety issues, and contributing to incident response and investigations, including high-risk work.
• Able to build capability in leaders, influence safe behaviours, and facilitate safety training and operational conversations credibly.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management, sound problem-solving/decision making,
• and the ability to work autonomously while collaborating with specialists to share learnings.

Why join us:

At Melbourne Water, we care deeply about water and the life it sustains. 

Our team is inspired by passion and purpose, with an unwavering commitment to safety. We are on a mission to protect every Melburnian’s way of life, one drop at a time.

We don’t just talk about flexible working - we live it. Our culture of purpose, safety, results, and learning flows through everything we do. We're dedicated to doing what's right, and this commitment extends to the meaningful work we do in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

Our long-standing commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging means that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ individuals, Neurodivergent Individuals, people living with disability, mature age and young jobseekers from all cultures can apply with confidence knowing they are safe, affirmed, and celebrated.

If you’re curious, action-orientated, outcomes-focused, and passionate about public resources, community, and the environment, we'd love to receive your application and learn if you could be a great fit. 

How to Apply

Click the 'Apply Now' button below and complete our online application form.

Closing date: Monday 11^th May 2026 at 11:55pm AES