Location: Adelaide / Pimba and our surrounding sites
Remuneration/Benefit: Negotiable
We are seeking an experienced Safety Partner to join our Safety, Health & Environment team, supporting a major project. This is a unique opportunity to work across both site-based FIFO operations and Adelaide-based corporate support, partnering closely with leaders to drive safety performance in a high-risk environment.
About the Role
Reporting to the Principal Safety Partner, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of safety initiatives, providing hands-on safety partnering, and ensuring strong governance and assurance outcomes across the project.
This role will be on a 5:2 / 4:3 arrangement:
- Monday–Friday: FIFO, site-based
- Monday–Thursday: Adelaide-based
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders to implement safety initiatives aligned to organisational and project objectives
- Provide practical safety advice, coaching and support to operational teams
- Support leaders in building a strong safety and wellbeing culture
- Facilitate and track safety action plans and continuous improvement initiatives
- Participate in multi-disciplinary project teams, ensuring compliance with safety change management processes
- Undertake safety governance activities and monitor compliance with legislative and company requirements
- Conduct frontline audits and provide SHE assurance and due diligence support
- Participate in, and where required lead, incident and event investigations
- Prepare safety reports for internal and external stakeholders
About You
You are a proactive and confident safety professional with experience working in high-risk, operational environments, and you are comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
Mandatory / Preferred Qualifications & Experience:
- Cert IV in Workplace Health and Safety (mandatory)
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in safety management within a high-risk industry
- Strong working knowledge of WHS legislation and regulatory requirements
- ICAM Investigation Training (preferred)
- Auditor qualifications (preferred)
Key Skills & Capabilities:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing capability
- Risk assessment and risk management expertise
- Experience delivering safety-related projects
- Ability to manage complexity and work collaboratively in fast-paced environments
What we offer you:
At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.
Some of our benefits include:
- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.
About Aurizon.
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Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.
Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.
At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.
To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers
