Bring legacy to life. For the future of Queensland and the world.

We’re looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Principal HSW Consultant (AO7) to partner with our Agriculture business group. In this role, you’ll provide expert advice, strategic guidance, and practical support to help create safe, healthy and sustainable workplaces across our diverse operations.

Just imagine what you could achieve with us..

Job details

The Opportunity:
As the Principal Consultant Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW), you will:
• Assist with the implementation of an effective health and safety management system that supports safe work design and fosters a healthy, safe and well workforce.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership to enhance the DPI health and safety management system with an objective of continuous improvement.
• Lead the development and implementation of HSW strategies, systems, and programs to ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and achieve best practice outcomes.
• Provide expert advice on the department's obligations in relation to workplace health and safety; and contribute to the organisation's compliance with these obligations.
• Support business areas to embed departmental HSW standards and procedures with a focus on harm minimisation and continuous improvement by:
 o Assisting in developing, maintaining, and reviewing risk registers, including evaluating and improving control measures.
 o Overseeing and participating in safety audits and inspections, and incident investigations, ensuring relevant learnings are captured and shared.
 o Integrating effective health, safety and risk management processes into operations and work practices.
 o Building strong stakeholder relationships with management, workers, regulators, unions and contractors.
 o Consulting with stakeholders on safety systems, legislative compliance and emerging technologies.
 o Supporting organisational change initiatives. where relevant.
• Promote a positive workplace culture.
• Consulting with staff regarding their health and safety obligations and delegated responsibilities for managing issues specific to their role.
• Promoting psychosocial health including self-care practices, fostering strong social connections and creating supportive environments.
• Educating, leading and mentoring employees to build HSW capability and support accountability across the organisation.
• Represent business areas in audits, manage recommendations, and provide updates on risks, controls and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with HSW colleagues, HR, and other functions to ensure consistent service delivery.
• Facilitate learning from incident and trend data to improve safety culture and performance.
• Support disaster and incident responses across the department when available.

You may also have -
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline relating to Health and Safety and/or relevant transferable experience in a similar Health and Safety role.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of reporting systems, tools and Microsoft Suite.

Learn why our people choose DPI and more importantly why they stay.
• Work with passion and purpose.
• Have a tangible impact, for today and tomorrow.
• Enjoy interesting, diverse work.
• Follow your path wherever it leads.
• Get the flexibility and support you need to thrive.
• Be part of our one, diverse DPI.

Find purpose you feel, impact you see and a legacy you bring to life.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• dpi-candidate-information-pack (3) (PDF, 307KB)
  
  
  672071 25 Role Description v1 (Word, 991KB)