Senior Adviser Health & Safety

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Role Type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Wellington

Salary Band: General Salary Range D: $98,955 to $120,000 per annum depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role

If you're a Health and Safety Advisor with experience working in a high-risk operational environment and you have a passion for leading improvements and increasing capability and awareness, we want to hear from you! 

While undertaking our important work we strive to be leaders in ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of our people. This role is a dedicated position focusing on Health & Safety for a large national operations team with the goal to improve health, safety, and wellbeing capability in Verification Services.

In this vital role you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of health, safety and wellbeing systems, policies and procedures within Verification Services, ensuring these are aligned with MPI's organisation-wide safety and wellbeing programme.
• Advise Verification Services managers and staff, and work with external stakeholders where Verification Services operate.
• Ensure systems are in place and lead / coordinate and implement an improved approach to working with our frontline teams and ensure that Verification Services has policies, standards, and work practises in place to manage risk and enable a safe working environment for our people.

Mōu - About You

Ideally, you'll have experience working in a primary industry setting.  However, work experience in another high-risk industry is also considered.  You will also need to have:

• Project management skills, including experience in leading projects and achieving effective outcomes
• Excellent writing skills with experience in writing papers, recommendations and advising senior management as well as experience in writing procedures and processes.
• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide range of people in different situations. This includes the ability to explain, persuade and influence others.
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to take the lead in progressing any identified Health & Safety initiatives and implementing recommendations and actions.

You'll be joining a dedicated team, supporting a large scale frontline national team. This is a great opportunity to make a real impact to help our people and operations.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team

Verification Services (VS) within NZ Food Safety, core purpose is to deliver independent, cost effective and high-quality verification, certification, inspection, and clearance programmes that ensure all relevant regulatory requirements are met. Our people deliver a world-class, efficient, and cost-effective service to a broad range of animal product industries and sectors and facilitate not only food safety, but biosecurity and market access for animals and animal product exports.

The Business Operations and Performance team support the delivery of all business, health and safety, operational support and reporting functions within the VS Directorate.

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.

To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here.

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

• Up to 3 additional MPI leave days
• Wellness benefit for employees
• Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working

We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

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, whanau 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 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.

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 11.59pm on Wednesday, 18 September.

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

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