Job Title: Senior Adviser Health Safety and Wellbeing
Role Type: Permanent full-time
Location: Wellington
Salary Band D: $98,955 to $132,427 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role
Join our Strategy, Enablement, and Māori Partnership directorate which is part of our wider Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service business unit based in Wellington.
As the Senior Adviser Health, Safety and Wellbeing, you will have a unique opportunity to take the lead on initiatives and programmes of work to ensure our workplace remains a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for everyone in Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service. By taking a strong focus on good safety practices and making them great, you will play a key role to ensure safety is the lens we use in our daily lives.
In your role you will partner with staff and other Health, Safety and Wellbeing practitioners within MPI to understand common issues and identify barriers that might impact on our ability to improve our safety practices and embed a culture of safety. This partnering will identify opportunities to share insights and solve problems to implement change and improve performance.
Your responsibilities will be to:

• Provide expertise to assist Te Uru Rākau managers with the delivery the health and safety systems, policies, and procedures within Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service.
• Provide technical advice and governance expertise in health safety and wellbeing processes and monitoring compliance with MPI policy and New Zealand legislation, including ensuring that risks are identified, controlled, and mitigated.
• Support, develop and drive the delivery of MPI's health, safety, and wellbeing programme
• Provide input on the establishment of new systems, policies, and procedures and align with MPI's programmes.
• Analyse health, safety, and wellbeing data, identify trends, monitor, and report on risk areas and produce quality performance data.

Mōu - About You
We're looking for a seasoned Health, Safety and Wellbeing professional with 3-5 years practitioner experience, who is collaborative by nature, comfortable with systems and processes, and is a great communicator.
You build positive, productive relationships to share expertise, deliver initiatives, improve performance, bring about change and drive for results through leadership influence.
To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Practical working knowledge of New Zealand Health Safety & Wellbeing legislation and of good practice in health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Experience in critical risk management, understanding of management of contracts with overlapping duties and relationships with external providers and suppliers.
• Experience in risk management techniques relevant to health & safety and application in practical situations.
• Incident management and investigation.
• Experience in developing and implementing safety and wellbeing processes, systems, and solutions within large and complex organisations.
• Experience in managing relationships and consultation with an assortment of external stakeholders.

Your ability to start as soon as possible would be an advantage.

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About the Team
Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service is leading the Government's renewed focus on forestry, one of our country's most successful primary industries. You'll be joining a dynamic and diverse team who share a common goal of improving the social, environmental, and economic outcomes for New Zealand through the sustainable growth and development of the forestry sector.
This role is part of the Strategy, Enablement, and Māori Partnership directorate within Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service. The directorate serves as a critical enabling function, acting as a bridge between central functions and the Branch Leadership Team. We empower leadership to drive key outcomes that support the sustainable growth and development of the forestry sector. By fostering alignment and collaboration, we streamline processes and provide the necessary support for informed decision-making, ensuring our efforts contribute to both the success of Te Uru Rākau.
The Senior Adviser Health, Safety and Wellbeing role reports to the Manager Business Support within the directorate. The Business Support team is responsible for providing three core enabling functions to Te Uru Rākau: Office of the Deputy Director-General; Health, Safety & Wellbeing; and Branch Administrative Support.
While the role is a sole adviser, there is enduring support from our MPI Central HSW team and other advisers across MPI. You will work in partnership with the Manager Business Support in the supporting the branch leadership team in their governance of health, safety, and wellbeing in Te Uru Rākau. You will be working with operational staff and managers across the country, and our health and safety representative, to continue to mature our health and safety practices.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
We're passionate about growing prosperity in the sector while ensuring respect for Kaitiaki – guardianship of our natural resources.

Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI

• Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
• Paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
• Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce. Please also let us know your notice period and/or estimated available start date.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at midnight 21 November 2024

If you have any questions about the role, please email Sophie.Hallett@mpi.govt.nz

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