Senior Safety Advisor

Life at Fulton Hogan is about making the most of opportunities, taking responsibility, and making it happen. We appreciate our peoples’ courage, curiosity and unique perspectives, and look to collaborate as much as possible to explore safer, smarter and more efficient ways of working in this rapidly changing world. We don’t stand still – there are always opportunities to do more and do better.

• Keen to progress your career? Take full advantage of our tailored training, leadership, and mentoring programs; or leverage our partnerships with industry association such as Engineers Australia, Chartered Accountants, CPA Australia, Infrastructure Sustainability Council, The National Association of Women in Construction, plus many more.

• Looking to enhance your wellbeing? We will encourage you to explore flexible working arrangements where possible. We offer great benefits, including corporate health and fitness programs, health insurance discounts, personal banking support, a range of retailer discounts, up to 18 weeks paid primary carers parental leave and up to 10 days paid secondary carers leave, access to our Employee Assistance Program (including your immediate family), and the option to take more time for yourself throughout the year with our Purchase Leave Policy.

• Want to help us better the communities we live and work in? Our purpose of creating, connecting, and caring for communities is more than a saying to us – it’s a way of thinking, working, and living because we're locals too, and seek to give back in ways that strengthen and build resilient communities. We do this because we genuinely care, enjoy what we do, and even manage to have some fun along the way! You’ll find us partnering with local and national community groups, like Clontarf Foundation and Black Dog Institute, in addition to indigenous groups and social enterprises, to ensure that our good work positively impacts and brings about sustainable change within our industry.

• Do we offer a ‘competitive’ salary package? Of course! Speak to our Talent Acquisition or People & Culture team to learn more.

What’s on offer?

We are seeking an experienced Senior Safety Advisor to support our Infrastructure Services Minor Civils business for South-East Queensland.  Based in Eight Mile Plains, you will be responsible for ensuring an effective safety culture, by aligning our “Living Safely” ethos, and driving compliance with WHS legislation. Some of the responsibilities include:

• Providing practical safety advice and support across multiple civil projects.
• Maintaining a visible site presence and building strong relationships with project teams and crews.
• Conducting site inspections, workplace risk assessments, and safety assurance activities.
• Participating in safety audits, inspections and safety stats reporting.
• Participating in tender reviews from a safety perspective.
• Conducting incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Supporting project mobilisation and the development and review of safety documentation.
• Providing advice on key construction risks including mobile plant, excavations, services, traffic management and other high-risk construction activities.

How you’ll connect to the role?

We are looking for an experienced Senior Safety Advisor with a strong understanding of civil construction environments and the risks associated with delivering civil works. Previous experience supporting civil construction projects is highly desirable and will be a key advantage in this role. You will ideally have experience working across civil infrastructure, roadworks, earthworks, drainage, utilities or similar construction activities, with a practical understanding of the day-to-day risks associated with mobile plant, excavations, services, traffic interfaces and subcontractor activities.

Your relevant qualification in Health and Safety, proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, practical knowledge of WHS requirements and experience supporting project teams with risk management, SWMS, site assurance and incident investigations will set you up for success. Furthermore, your positive, engaging, and solutions-oriented attitude will let you quickly make an impact and successfully integrate into this close-knit team.

This is an opportunity to operate within an ever-changing environment, navigate competing demands and deliver solutions that are reflective of where we want to go and what we want to achieve over the coming years.

Our people share the same set of values that keep us REAL. Respect, Energy and Effort, Attitude and Leadership encapsulate what we stand for at Fulton Hogan and encourage us to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where we listen to, care for, celebrate, and respect everyone.

We are committed to reconciliation and building and nurturing respectful relationships with First Nations peoples. Through our First Nations Engagement Strategy and Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we aim to promote opportunities, cultural understanding and partnerships that celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of Indigenous communities.

If our values resonate with you, please submit an application for the position. If you’re not sure that you meet 100% of the selection criteria, that’s okay, we would still like to hear from you and potentially discuss how your skills could be utilised at Fulton Hogan.

For over 90 years, Fulton Hogan has been delivering high-quality infrastructure to improve the lives of people every day. Our 10,000+ team works in every kind of weather and environment, creating, connecting, and caring for communities across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.