ABOUT THE ROLE
Please read all information carefully before applying.
Leading Councils Work Health and Safety team to ensure the successful delivery of Council wide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) plans, activities, policies, and procedures, in accordance with strategy, relevant legislative and regulatory obligations. Provide high level support to the Executive Manager People & Culture as well as the Executive Leadership Team as a whole.
Provide Council-wide leadership and expert guidance in WHS, supporting continuous improvement in safety performance. This role influences Council leadership to foster a high-performing WHS culture and ensures that WHS governance, standards, systems, and frameworks are robust, strategically aligned, business-oriented, and fully embedded across the organisation.
Employment Status: Executive Contract - Full Time, Limited Tenure for up to five (5) years
Total Remuneration Package: up to $166,772 per annum
ABOUT YOU
The successful candidate will have:
| Essential Knowledge, skills and abilities |
- Successful experience in providing strong, decisive leadership and management of one or more of the following:
- Work Health and Safety planning, management, strategy and services
- Workforce Safety Culture
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Participate as an active member of Council’s Management Leadership Team (MLT).
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Experience in developing a WHS team and contributing to the People & Culture Directorate, and Council’s strategic management including community needs analysis, strategic and operational planning, performance frameworks and the development off appropriate policies and systems that drive a proactive safety culture.
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Drive and lead change management process for implementing successful WHS change and continuous improvement within a significant service delivery area pursuing innovation and excellence in service delivery. This includes optimizing Council’s Safety systems and promoting optimal utilisation across all of Council.
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Experience in engaging the community and stakeholders to ensure future direction and needs are clearly defined and met providing excellence in customer service.
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Ability to provide effective workforce management with a focus on performance, building workforce capability, a strong positive work environment, and a workforce culture consistent with Council’s vision, mission and strategy.
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Competence in the effective management of human, financial, physical and other resources to achieve Council’s business objectives and to meet the needs of the community.
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Experience in representing and promoting a critical service delivery function within the community, business sector, other local authorities, government agencies and broader environment and build and maintain positive working relationships.
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Plan, execute and complete programmes and projects relating to areas of accountability, within set timeframes.
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Prepare or provide input into the development of the Work Health and Safety team budget. Monitor and advise Executive Manager People & Culture on progress against budgetary expenditure in areas of financial responsibility.Responsible for making and keeping records in accordance with legislation, information standards and other relevant guidelines and procedures and ensuring records are captured in the authorised recordkeeping system.
| Essential Education/Qualifications |
| Essential Licences |
- Possession and maintenance of a current Queensland ‘C’ Class Driver Licence.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/POSITION ENVIRONMENT
- This position requires sufficient physical ability to work in a shared office setting, which involves prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing at a desk and operating a computer and telephone.
- This position is required to carry out light to moderate manual handling, bending, kneeling, twisting, squatting, lifting, and carrying.
- This position may be required to work in an outdoor environment exposed to inclement weather.
- This position requires the incumbent to undertake periodic field visits.
- This position will be required to travel.
Council is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. This includes taking all steps that are reasonably practicable to prevent the spread of preventable occupational diseases. In accordance with Council’s P0199 Vaccinations and Health Monitoring Procedure, positions exposed to occupational diseases will be subject to the Workplace Immunisation Program.
MORE INFORMATION & QUESTIONS
Council is committed to building an inclusive culture that respects and promotes human rights and diversity and acknowledges that we respectfully journey together to aspire to be an inclusive and capable organisation. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and place value on our diverse workforce. We encourage applicants representing all genders, ethnicities, ages, languages, sexual orientations, people with a disability, and those with family responsibilities to apply.
For further information, please view the Position Description(PDF, 25MB) and Information Kit(PDF, 25MB).
For enquiries in relation to this vacancy, please call 07 4761 5300 or email.
CLOSING DATE
11:59pm Sunday, 7 June 2026.
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