Description

HSE Coordinator - Premium Pacific Oyster Producer

We are an innovative and organically certified, premium producer of Pacific Oysters, with a genuine goal: to provide fresh, clean, consistently high-quality produce for superior food experiences while respecting the environment.

With plans to grow and transform the oyster industry in South Australia, we are seeking to recruit highly motivated individuals who share a passion for safe, innovative, and sustainable aquaculture.

The Role:

This is a full-time HSE Coordinator position. The role spans all sites, with an office based in Port Lincoln. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and facilitating effective training resources and processes to enable farm production and processing teams to competently contribute to achieving a safe and efficient business environment.

The HSE Coordinator engages collaboratively with managers and team leaders to achieve proactive safety standards and practices, coordinating prevention, injury management, and RTW programs, and works across all work sites to optimise productivity and well-being.

This role requires a dynamic and highly motivated individual with strong interpersonal skills who can be flexible with changing priorities and assist with projects as they arise. Responsibilities include:

• Engaging and collaborating with farm managers, being proactive to achieve safety standards and practices.
• Working effectively across all sites, coordinating prevention, injury management, and return to work programs, optimising productivity and employee well-being.
• Being accountable for documentation, incident, and data analysis.
• Leading conduct of and analysis of reported hazards, incidents, or near misses via the appropriate HSE system forms.
• Producing work to a standard consistent with corporate and legislative requirements.
• Providing support to the People & Culture, Safety & Compliance Manager as required.
• Maintaining documentation of HSE-related information and its communication to all team members.
• Managing RTWSA injury management, claims management, and rehab/RTW obligations and initiatives to minimise incidents.
• Coordinating internal/external HSE audits and develop plans to action.
• Conducting or facilitating training programs for new and existing team members, including remote and online learning programs.
• Working closely with the PCSC Manager to support the team leaders with leadership principles and practices to enable them to grow their teams' capabilities.

Requirements:

• Relevant qualifications in HSE or a relevant field and a driver's licence.
• Comprehensive workplace health and safety knowledge and experience.
• Well-developed communication skills with emphasis on presentation and instruction techniques.
• Diverse workplace experiences, ideally including aquaculture, food processing, and logistics environments.
• Training, content design, and development experience; experience delivering safety training delivery 'in situ'.

Locations:

We operate multi-bay operations across the Eyre Peninsula. Our site in Cowell is home to our spat nursery and year-old juvenile stock before they are shipped out to our grow-out site at Haslam (near Streaky Bay) or onto Coffin Bay, our finishing site.

This role is based in Port Lincoln, with the need for scheduled or unscheduled visits to the sites as required.

Remuneration:

The remuneration for this role will be dependent on the candidate's skills and experience. We offer opportunities for training and career development in the aquaculture industry.