Job Description
At Pact, our vision is to lead the Circular Economy through innovative Packaging, Reuse and Recycling solutions.
As a member of the New Zealand senior leadership team, the Divisional WHSE Manager - PPNZ role plays a pivotal part in ensuring the health, safety and well-being of our employees and contractors while driving a culture of continuous improvement in health and safety practices across the organization.
Join a collaborative team and contribute to our ongoing growth!
About this opportunity
As the Divisional Health and Safety Manager at Pact Packaging NZ, your role is integral to the development and execution of comprehensive health and safety strategies and programs within our division.
We are committed to making sure our people go home safe every day, and with a drug and alcohol-free sites/locations, we will require you to undertake testing as part of your pre-employment health assessment.
This position’s key responsibilities and focus areas:

• Provide strategic guidance, governance and procedural leadership across Health, safety, environmental management.
• Facilitate the development and implementation of the PACT Health, Safety & Environment strategy for the Packaging NZ business. Encompassing approximately 900people across 18 sites.
• Continued development of business systems and strategies to preventing harm to people or place, demonstrating best practice, and being compliant with both internal policies and external legislative requirements.

• Close collaboration with divisional leadership, Business Unit Managers, and site safety teams to continue to grow a culture of, health, safety and environmental excellence, providing expert and relevant advice, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement to ensure sustained and continual improvement throughout the organisation

• Keep abreast of emerging industry trends that would enhance the Packaging NZ strategy in the future

What you will bring:

• Extensive experience in a Health, Safety and Environment leadership position
• Strategic Leadership, with ability to influence and engage all levels across Health and Safety
• Qualifications to a post graduate level in a health, safety, or environmental discipline or similar
• 7+ Years in the assessment, execution and delivery of contemporary Health and Safety Management systems in a complex multisite environment
• Demonstrated ability to apply principles of workplace injury prevention, excellent skills in hazard identification and industry accredited investigation skills (e.g. ICAM)
• Provide on-the ground coaching and support across all levels of the organisation.
• Development and embed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Strong organisational skills and ability to ‘cut through’ the organisational challenges
• Highly developed skills in leadership, communication (written & verbal), negotiation, collaboration, influencing and execution; able to deliver ‘consistency and standardization in a change resistant culture
• Coaching, training and mentoring skills
• Outcome focussed and detail oriented
• Experience in the manufacturing operational industry
• Values lead leader

In return, you will enjoy the on-going benefits and career opportunities of a passionate and future focused team, an environment where we embrace diversity. And a place that offers a competitive salary and great perks.
About us
We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.
As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.
For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.
Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.
That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.