Manager - Health Safety Wellbeing

At KPMG we believe that business and government have a vital role to play in solving social and environmental problems. ESG Social Advisory & Assurance is a specialist team multidisciplinary team that helps our clients to prevent harm to people protect vulnerable people and promote positive impacts for people and their communities.

Our diverse team members have backgrounds in health and safety social research advocacy policy human rights business sustainability law and more. We work across business government and notforprofit sectors. We are committed to diversity of thought background and experience and believe it strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people our clients and communities. 

Your Opportunity

In response to growing client demand for our Health Safety and Wellbeing service offering there is an exciting opportunity for a Manager to join our team in Melbourne or Sydney.

This role takes guidance from the Associate Director or Director in the execution of work activities on engagements. As a Manager within our team you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and execution of health safety and wellbeing solutions that drive cultural and operational improvements for our clients while growing your personal knowledge and expertise in this dynamic and exciting field.

Working with leading organisations across a range of sectors including energy mining property infrastructure government healthcare financial services and corporates education and defence sectors our team offers a wide range of HSW capabilities including:

• HSW strategy design and implementation including key performance indicators
• HSW governance and assurance frameworks
• HSW leadership and culture assessments
• HSW management systems policies guidelines and procedures and due diligence assessments
• HSW auditing to ISO 45001 and ISO 45003
• HSW legislation and regulatory compliance reviews
• HSW gap assessment benchmarking data analysis and reporting
• Contractor management framework reviews
• Psychosocial risk frameworks mental health and wellbeing programs
• HSW risk assessments (physical and psychosocial)
• Critical risk identification and critical control management frameworks
• Incident investigation and root cause analysis
• Crisis and Emergency Management

How are you extraordinary

• You have a passion for and commitment to promoting a culture of health safety and wellbeing.
• You can prepare highquality clientready deliverables and present to the senior leadership teams for review.
• You actively seek out opportunities for growth are comfortable challenging the status quo and enjoy getting out of your comfort zone.
• You have strong analytical and communication skills to write concise and accurate reports.
• You are a peopleperson and enjoy working collaboratively to build and maintain positive relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• You are focused on effective project management and quality delivery ensuring client satisfaction by delivery highquality services and outputs and meeting deadlines.

Your Experience

At KPMG we believe diversity of thought background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people our clients and communities. To be considered for this opportunity your skills and experience could include: 

• Strong knowledge of workplace health safety and wellbeing management including at least 5 years of demonstrated experience in HSW compliance auditing and advisory services conducting physical and psychosocial risk assessments designing HSW Management System Frameworks and developing and implementing corrective actions and mitigation controls.
• Ability to apply relevant HSW legislation regulation standards and codes of practice.
• General HSW technical expertise across a range of areas including (but not limited to) high risk work safety observations/inspections emergency response the management of psychosocial hazards and risks injury management and incident reporting and investigation.
• Demonstrated experience in developing highquality reports and proposals is essential.
• Strong communication skills both oral and written are essential with the ability to convey information in a clear concise and accurate way.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a diverse team.
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to work across different engagements and with different teams managing deadlines and ensuring highquality outputs.

Why join us

• An opportunity to shape and contribute in a meaningful way to largescale HSW engagements across a diverse range of industries.
• Learn from a collaborative peoplecentred team including our Director with over 30 years of industry experience and technical expertise.
• Be part of a progressive team at the forefront of HSW with strong opportunities for professional development and career growth including connection to our wider ESG Social team

Qualifications :

Ideally relevant tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety or related qualifications such as Workplace Psychology or ISO Auditor. Defence clearance rail industry work card or other industry credentials would also be beneficial.

Additional Information :

Please note KPMG Australia has a firmwide shutdown from 19th December to 8th of January. Applications submitted between this period will be reviewed in the New Year

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate highly skilled professionals whove got your back. Youll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive equitable culture.

At KPMG youll take control over how you work. Were embracing a new way of working in many ways from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks including retail discounts health and wellbeing initiatives learning and growth opportunities salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application please contact the Talent Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.