Title: Safety Administrator
Beerburrum, QLD, AU, 4517
About John Holland
At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.
We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.
That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.
Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.
About The Project
About the role
As a Safety Administrator, you will play a critical supporting role within the project’s safety team. This position is responsible for ensuring that all safety systems, documentation, and compliance processes are effectively maintained, accurate, and consistently up to date.
You will support the delivery of the project by helping to ensure compliance with strict rail safety standards, contributing to a safe working environment for all personnel. A key part of the role is assisting in keeping John Holland audit-ready at all times, ensuring that all records, reports, and safety documentation meet both internal requirements and external regulatory obligations.
Through proactive coordination and attention to detail, you will help ensure that the project operates efficiently, remains compliant, and upholds the highest safety standards across all activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and ensure compliance with project safety systems, procedures, and relevant legislation
- Prepare, maintain, and manage safety documentation, reports, and records to keep the project audit-ready
- Support incident and accident investigations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Conduct routine safety inspections and review high-risk works to ensure compliance with approved methods
- Administer safety programs, including training records, worker support, and coordination across the workforce
- Assist with workers’ compensation and rehabilitation processes
- Build strong relationships with project teams, subcontractors, clients, and regulators to promote a positive safety culture
What We Are Looking For
- Diploma of Work Health and Safety or equivalent
- Bachelor degree in Quality, Safety, Environmental, Project Management or other associated disciplines (highly regarded)
- Expirience with construction safety management and interpreting audit reviews
- Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative risk assessment and monitoring of risk controls
- Experience monitoring, reviewing and reporting on performance, compliance and defects
- Skills in safety management techniques and tools
As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.
Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.
We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.
What's in it for you
We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.
We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.
We Offer:
- Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
- Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
- Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
- Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
- Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
- Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.
John Holland does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies