Safety, Health & Wellbeing Manager

Ready to make an impact?

As our Safety, Health & Wellbeing Manager within Primary Connect, you'll be a key driver of both innovation and continuous improvement across Primary Connect, leading and inspiring change through expert guidance and strong relationships with senior leaders. You'll take a practical and pragmatic approach to safety, using data and root cause analysis to implement solutions that make a real difference, particularly for our critical risks. You’ll also have an eye for detail, to ensure our critical controls are deployed in such a way - that make a positive difference to our team.  A core part of your role will be to support the team with complex incident investigations and to mentor our site-based SHW Specialists (who are a pretty awesome bunch). You'll also leverage your strong knowledge of the Health & Safety at Work Act (2015) to ensure our systems are both contemporary and compliant.

What you'll do | Hei mahi

Based in Favona, this hybrid role will see you support Distribution Centre’s across New Zealand, with travel to our regional DC’s as required. Drive the continuous improvement in critical risk management, effective control deployment and overall reduction of injuries and their severity, not to mention we like to have fun with safety - so you’ll help lead and deliver key safety initiatives that boost team engagement. Leading and developing your team of SH&W Specialists, you will :

• Lead the Primary Connect SH&W team to deliver the Woolworths NZ safety, health & wellbeing strategy.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying, researching, and executing new safety workflows across the business.
• Develop and implement a plan to reduce manual handling injuries and drive material / critical risk and control implementation.
• Partner and engage with stakeholders and industry bodies on emerging risks across our end-to-end supply chain.
• Ensure the business meets all internal and external regulatory obligations, including ACC self-assessment requirements and other monitoring and reporting requirements.

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

This is a highly collaborative role, where you'll engage with operational management, frontline teams, and key 3PL partners to embed a strong safety culture and ensure effective risk management. To be successful in this role, your experience will likely reflect :

• Extensive Health & Safety background (5+ years), with expertise in ACC AEP and critical risk management.
• Proven ability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders to achieve positive safety outcomes.
• Strong track record of delivering and executing safety programmes and initiatives across multi-site operations.
• A solid problem-solver with the ability to perform detailed root cause analysis and find practical solutions.
• Experienced in leading and mentoring teams, and effectively presenting safety information at all business levels.

This is a fast paced innovative role and one where you will be empowered to make a significant contribution to making Kiwis’ lives a little better everyday! If you’d like to make a key contribution to the growth of our business, apply today!

Our Benefits

• Genuine flexibility in how and where you work, whilst being mindful that this role supports an operational business
• Ongoing development within a trans-tasman team and access to amazing leaders to help you learn and navigate in a large corporate environment
• A very supportive line leader, and peer-to-peer senior SHW leadership team, who all lead with care, compassion and empathy, and will support you to get your feet under the table as quickly as possible.  We’re a practical, problem solving bunch of kiwis, who love what we do
• You’ll have a seat at the Primary Connect Senior Leadership Team - so you’ll be immersed in making decisions that improve and deliver success in our business - both operationally and for safety, and you’ll be surrounded by the best supply chain leaders we have, they’re also very passionate about safety!
• There are the other items too, like our :

Everyday Rewards team card, providing a range of benefits including discounts and bonus points for groceries and discounted online shopping delivery

Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts

Global and local career opportunities

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.