Duties

The Senior Manager – Health & Safety (SMHS) leads and supports the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority’s (PAHSMA’s) approach to providing a safe and respectful workplace, including health, safety and wellbeing strategies and systems, and injury case management including worker’s compensation and return-to-work coordination.

This role leads a function of strategic significance to PAHSMA and directly contributes to agency-wide strategic and operational planning.

The SMHS works in partnership with key internal and external stakeholders in delivering effective health and safety services and outcomes, ensuring the development and delivery of functional and strategic outcomes, and ensuring legislative and regulative requirements are met. This includes being the primary point of contact for WorkSafe Tasmania and communicating to leadership (including the PAHSMA Board, where appropriate) about regulatory matters.

The SMHS manages complex risks associated with operational areas and works with stakeholders to ensure the safety of the PAHSMA’s workforce, contractors, and visitors who are sometimes in remote and isolated environments across our numerous sites.

As the organisation’s health and safety function lead, you are expected to bring management, leadership, strategic, and technical experience and expertise commensurate with that role. That extends to thought, technical, system and safety-culture thinking and leadership at a whole of organisation level. As the technical specialist and leader, the SMHS is expected to be capable of working across all levels of the business, as well as being able to provide documentation and briefing to the senior and executive leaders and the Board if and when required. You must develop and implement systems, strategies, policies, procedures and guidance related to health and safety and to support safe workplaces and site environments.  This must extend to the design and implementation of a new health and safety system inclusive of contemporary, mobile-first digital operations platform.

The full role scope is outlined in the position description.  Key deliverables will include:

• development and implementation of contemporary policies, procedures, systems, protocols and guidelines to meet compliance and alignment with current workers compensation, injury management, PAHSMA objectives, and health and safety legislation, regulation and professional practice standards
• lead the strategic and operational design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance and development of a contemporary health and safety digital operational management system
• lead creation of a mature health and safety culture underpinned by care for self and others and personal and collective responsibility and accountability

Essential Requirements

• • Working with Vulnerable People registration, or ability to obtain this (without restrictions).
  • Workplace 2 First Aid Certificate, or ability and willingness to obtain this.

Desirable Requirements

• • Certificate IV WHS or higher educational certification (or equivalent expertise/experience or qualifications).
  • Membership of Australian Institute of Health and Safety and/or Australian Institute of Occupational Hygiene (non-essential but valuable).
  • ICAN lead investigator qualified and/or Lead auditor qualified (or equivalent) (non-essential but valuable).
  • Experience working in the construction and/or food and beverage (or similar) sectors (non-essential but valuable).

Download the Position Description and any Associated Documents

 PD - Senior Manager Health and Safety (PC-B8) - 2025-08-07.pdf

How to apply

Please apply online by clicking the blue 'Apply Now' button.

Please submit your resume and a brief (max 100 words) written pitch outlining your interest in the role.

Please note attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

If you are unable to submit your application online, please contact the PAHSMA Recruitment team at recruitment@portarthur.org.au

For more information

Please note The Safe Step will lead this recruitment exercise and applicant information will be shared with The Safe Step to enable assessment.  Permission to share your information with The Safe Step is implied by submitting your application and personal details.

Contacts:

Cate Ingham or Nicola Hutton
The Safe Step
03 9664 0913