Sodexo designs, manages and delivers innovative integrated solutions that not only improve the way our clients businesses run on a daily basis, but enhance Quality of Life for our clients, consumers and employees.

Sodexo provides a range of services at remote locations across Australia, servicing both on-shore and off-shore sites, in difficult and challenging environments. At Sodexo, our Energy & Resources segment serves four markets: Mining, Offshore & Marine, Onshore Energy, and Engineering & Construction Projects. Our growing team of employees is dedicated to improving productivity, building meaningful client relationships, reducing on-site problems and improving quality of life for the thousands of Australians who call our remote sites home.

Main Assignments

• Assist Sodexo achieve its goal of zero harm to people, equipment and environment.
• Comply with all workplace health and safety laws at all times.
• Act as a point of contact for clients and community groups, and addressing concerns and complaints for HSEQC issues.
• Form strong working relationships with community groups in the vicinity of remote sites.
• Establish a strong link with senior management, operations, clients support departments and service partners to ensure effective management of HSE.
• Provide technical support and advice to management and service partners in relation to legislative and company requirement.
• Manage company and client-driven HSE activities, programs, drills, meetings.
• Prepare HSEQ KPI reports for communication to Sodexo management.
• Comply with Sodexo’s HSEQ management system at all times.
• Ensure health and safety, the environment, quality, the community and wellbeing is incorporated into daily operations.
• Participate and ensure compliance to the schedule of the Live Safe behavioral safety program and the implementation of identified corrective actions from Live Safe surveys.
• Facilitate risk assessments and ensure site specific risk registers are updated and communicated.
• Participate in critical control program assurance activities.
• Report any incidents, near hits, procedure deficiencies and poor working conditions to the immediate manager and HSEQ personnel.
• Ensure all incidents (including near misses) are investigated to a level of detail appropriate to the maximum foreseeable exposure (MFE) of the incident and report made available to the HSE manager.
• Ensure that lessons learnt and actions resulting from incidents are appropriately managed and implemented across all applicable sites.
• Ensure monthly HSE inspections are completed with relevant actions captured for any non-conformances identified.
• Review and update company HSE manuals, policies, procedures and management plans (traffic management, emergency management etc.) as required.
• Prepare monthly reports including information on incidents, hazards, non-conformances, improvement plans and HSE performance.
• Preparation of monthly reports for submission to the HSE Manager or site manager.
• Ensure correct classification of incidents.
• Attend and contribute to prestart, weekly toolbox and management meetings.
• Attend Monthly HSE and Safety Committee meetings. 
• Assist in the development of relevant training packaged and competency assessments to support the implementation of Sodexo’s HSEQC management system.
• Organise and conduct HSEQC training for remote sites including inductions, HACCAP, behavioral safety inspections, Isolation, Permit to Work, Job Hazard Analysis, Manual Handling and Hazardous Substances.
• Conduct Gap Analysis of employee training pathways that are consistent with the business, insuring that training is available and delivered.
• Review JHAs and update SOP as required.
• Review and report on site compliance on Datastation (training, hazards, actions, investigations).
• Ensure Change Control forms are completed as per MOC requirements.
• Update ChemWatch, SDS files and chemical risk assessments for chemicals used on site.
• Perform financial analysis of current and prospective HSEQC projects, and align these projects with company strategy and budgets.
• Train and guide staff in performing their duties in adherence to company, client and regulatory standards.
• Promote Diversity and inclusion as a key driver of employee attraction and retention through recruitment programs.
• Promote, implement and assist in the coordination of Sodexo’s reward and benefit programs.
• Create and facilitate employee engagement experiences, including workshops and strategy sessions at all levels in the organisation. 
• Develop initiatives, concepts and ideas that continually support the employee engagement message and ensure that these messages align with all other corporate initiatives.
• Foster and maintain a strong rapport with staff and managers at all levels.
• Other reasonable duties as directed.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (minimum).

• Bachelor’s degree in Health and Safety or higher.
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
• Certified in Internal Auditing.
• Root Cause Incident Investigation (TapRoot) Training.
• Essential factor investigation training.
• Food Safety Qualifications.
• Current West Australian C Class driver’s license.

Skills and Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in a similar role preferably working within the mining industry or remote sites.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of current applicable legislation and regulations.
• Exposure to Quality Management Systems including ISO 9001:2001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.

Accountabilities

• Ensure Sodexo HSEQC management system and management plans are communicated and implemented.
• Ensure that HSE improvement plans are developed to ensure continuous improvement in HSEQC performance and compliance.
• Ensure that all personnel (Sodexo and its service partners) carrying out HSE activities have been trained, are competent and have the relevant qualifications for the specified roles.
• Identify, reporting and address any environmental, HSE or community hazard, incident or improvement, and promptly target problem areas to ensure that issues and incidents do not emerge.
• Coach teams regularly to maximise their performance, with reviews completed on time and to a high standard. Ensure all team members demonstrate the IFMS collaboration model behaviours and that team employee engagement scores meet or exceed targets.
• Ensure financial targets are met or exceeded.
• Ensure quality, health, safety, environmental and compliance targets are met or exceeded.
• Ensure 100% compliance to IFMS standards and that the IFMS brand is recognised as the leading provider of on-site service solutions.

Context and main issues

• Ensure reports and reporting data is made available to client, Sodexo management and or relevant external authorities as required.

• Consistent access and review of regulatory, company and client-driven OHS manuals, policies and procedures.

• Ensure that Sodexo personnel who approve and issue permits are authorised, trained and assessed as competent and that external service partners work in accordance with Sodexo’s permit to work system.
• Ensure third-party ISO certification/registration (14001, 9001, 18001, 4801 and   HACCP) are maintained.
• Ensure that reported hazards and incidents are accurately captured and reported in a timely manner.
• Identify and report any environmental or OHS hazards and incidents to immediate manager and HSEQ personnel in a timely manner, and assist in the development and implementation of initiatives to avoid environmental and safety risks.