Title:  Safety Administrator

About John Holland

We’re all about transforming lives by finding solutions to complex challenges. We do that by providing leading design, engineering, construction and asset operations, across infrastructure, transport, building and property in Australia and New Zealand.
From the epic, to the intimate, everything we do improves life for someone, somewhere. It gives our business momentum and means we approach things a little differently.
While our competitors talk about what they do, we focus on why we do it. We transform communities to make them easier to move around, more connected and better to live in.

Are you up for the challenge? 

About Inland Rail:
Inland Rail is transforming how goods are moved around Australia, connecting Melbourne and Brisbane via regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. This 1,700km fast freight backbone will complete our national freight network – better connecting producers to markets and creating new opportunities for regional businesses, industries and communities.

The Illabo to Stockinbingal project is about 39km of new rail corridor located within the local government areas of Junee and Cootamundra-Gundagai. This new section of rail corridor will provide a direct route from east of Illabo, tracking north to Stockinbingal and connecting into the existing Forbes rail line.

We are currently looking for a Safety Administrator, to work on our busy Cootamundra based project.

As a Health & Safety Administrator you will be playing a key role in the efficiency of the day-to-day operational requirements within the Safety team.  This role reports into the safety manager and you’ll get to work with a bunch of others who live and breathe our safety culture. We don’t expect you to have previous exposure in a safety team or environment, but we are eager to welcome someone to the team who is passionate about safety. or perhaps, is thinking about this as a long-term career. 

Some of the things you will be doing:
-Assisting with the update and maintenance required Health and Safety Reports, Project Safety Plans and registers
-Provision of Health & Safety support – including document management, assisting in the acquisition of supplies (i.e. PPE, emergency equipment) 
-Work creatively and collaboratively in assisting with safety activities that support projects operations (i.e. coordination of training, campaign development, project safety communications)
-Developing and maintaining an awareness of Health & Safety hazards and associated risks and demonstrate a commitment to eliminate or minimise those risks
-Build awareness of a safety culture among the Project Management team, and actively contribute to its development so that Health & Safety is the primary driver of all behaviour
-Enter and extract data from incident management system

You will bring:

-Previous experience in a high-volume administration role with great attention to detail 
-A good attitude and balance to a busy environment
-Someone who can communicate with confidence and knows how to handle conflicting priorities and communicate when they are at capacity
-A time management master when it comes to competing priorities
-A persistence to continuously improvement ideas, build team member buy-in to ideas, listen to team members’ improvement ideas, and have informed opinions about their merit to enable continuous improvements within the Safety Team

We offer: 
-Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice packaging options available. 
-Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and 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, and technical and leadership training and development opportunities. 

Inclusion and diversity is part of how we work and do what we do at John Holland. Our active commitment to being an employer of choice is evident in the delivery of our Gender Equality Strategic Plan supported by our Pride, Celebrate Women, RAP and Grow networks. 

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, flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly. 

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to 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 different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success. 
We’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills, and make a difference, right from the start. We have a flexible workplace and focus on all aspects of your physical and mental health and safety. We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.