- Permanent Full Time | Starting salary of $190,026 + Plus 16.5% super
- A monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO) in support of work life balance
- Available in Artarmon or Wallsend
It’s an exciting time to join Ausgrid’s Health and Safety team. Following a realignment of our structure to support our shift towards a learning, fair and just culture, we are creating new opportunities.
See yourself working here
Your responsibilities will include:
- Model visible leadership and actively demonstrate our Work Safe Live Safe and Customer-focused values.
- Plan, develop assurance tools and deliver H&S assurance activities in line with the H&S Assurance Plan, supporting continual learning and risk intelligence across the Ausgrid Group.
- Lead and facilitate independent WHS and technical public and worker safety investigations using ICAM and Learning Teams methodology across the Ausgrid Group, informing corrective and preventive actions leading to systemic improvements.
- Lead and facilitate risk management, compliance review and corrective action management activities for serious and high potential incidents across occupational and psychosocial hazards for the Ausgrid Group.
- Prepare, coordinate and present executive and board level reports and insights, enabling risk-based decision making and investment in improved control measures across the Ausgrid Group and the HSMS.
- Prepare, coordinate, present to and engage with sector and industry bodies to translate insights into practical recommendations that enable continuous learning and improvement at an organisational and sector level.
- Coach, provide support and expert advice to H&S Auditors/Investigators in the effective completion of health and safety incident investigations and audits, ensuring quality of reports, effectiveness of recommendations and effective consultation with relevant stakeholders.
- Provide coaching, mentoring and expert advice to senior leaders, front line leaders, HSCs and HSRs to support their understanding of H&S investigations, assurance and risk activities, Fair and Just Culture and assist with issue resolution where required.
- Manage works delivered by contract providers including review of work, management of budget and monitoring compliance with contract terms.
- Translate data and trend analysis into business unit-specific insights that support the identification of emerging risks and themes, continuous improvement and remedial action.
Spark our interest!
Our hiring decisions are not only based on your experience and skills, but your passion, attitude, and alignment to our core values.
Energise us through your skills and qualifications in:
Essential Qualifications
- Degree or postgraduate qualifications in human factors, risk or occupational health and safety disciplines or equivalent.
Essential Criteria
- Minimum of five years’ experience leading WHS assurance, investigations and risk management activities in high-risk sectors, or equivalent.
- Proven experience in preparing and delivering executive- and board-level reports.
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, conflict resolution and problem-solving ability.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and a proven ability to communicate effectively, influence, coach and mentor stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Adaptive and agile critical-thinking skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues into simple, easy-to-understand explanations or processes.
- Proficient research, report-writing and editing skills, with a high attention to detail.
- Lead Auditor OH&S Management Systems qualification or ability to achieve qualification.
- Proven experience in managing WHS assurance and investigations programs, and application of ICAM,
- Learning Teams and other similar investigation approaches.
- Demonstrated knowledge of safety theory and its practical application across complex, geographically dispersed, matrixed organisations, including Safety 2, Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), Human Factors, and Critical Control Management.
- Demonstrated understanding of contractor management and delivery models.
- This role will require coverage of afternoon/night shift as required, in line with the EA provisions.
- This role will be required to respond to and investigate serious incidents and injuries.
Desired Criteria
- Sound understanding of high-risk work activities in transmission or distribution networks, or the renewable energy sector.
- Certification IV in Training and Assessment
Life at Ausgrid
At Ausgrid, we go beyond just a competitive salary to offer an exciting range of benefits. From salary sacrificing electric vehicles and novated leasing, to discounted corporate health insurance and access to Fitness Passport, our benefits support your work here, and your life out there.
Celebrate success every day with our employee recognition program to bring out each other’s best. Looking to grow professionally? We’ve got you covered with study assistance, secondments, training and mentors, whose advice you’ll keep wherever you go.
We’re proud to offer gender-neutral parental leave to balance work when growing your family. And if you’re caring for elderly parents, our aged care support services offer expert guidance to help you access care for your loved ones. At Ausgrid, it's all about supporting you in every aspect of life.
Belonging at Ausgrid
To deliver the best possible service to our customers we strive towards a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Ausgrid is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and we encourage applications from women, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQIA+ community and First Nations people.
If you require support with your application/reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please reach out to our dedicated Talent Team
[email protected].
Applications close date: Tuesday 21 July 2026 at 11:55pm. (Please note, this advert may close early).
Applicants must have full Australian work rights to apply.
Ausgrid – An Equal Opportunity Employer
Our Values: Work Safe, Live Safe; Customer Focussed; Commercially Minded; Collaborative; Honest & Accountable; Respect
