• Newly created role
• Contribute to the development and maturity of safety, health and wellbeing at KiwiRail
• Permanent, location flexible

What you’ll do

Reporting to our Chief Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Officer, you’ll be a key member of the SHW Leadership Team. Your central focus is to support the SHW Business Partnering Team who work across all aspects of operational business unit portfolios.

In this newly created role, you’ll provide leadership and guidance to the SHW business partners to support them to engage their business units in the strategy, practices and protocols of KiwiRail’s SHW vision. You will also maintain an oversight of the whole business unit performance - monitoring data, providing detailed insights, developing improvement actions, monitoring progress and formulating effectiveness analysis. A core deliverable will be for you to clearly articulate the purpose of KiwiRail’s Safety Culture Transformation Programme (Toitu Te Mauri) and its key tools and demonstrate Felt Leadership safety practice.

You will be responsible for growing capability and ownership of SHW programmes and tools along with cementing the critical interface of the Team with the wider organisation through solid, collaborative stakeholder relationships.

What you’ll need

As a subject matter expert in safety, health and wellbeing you’ll bring relevant experience from a Rail or large, complex heavy operational environment. You’ll be comfortable and experienced at interacting with and influencing senior executives, with a proven track record in leadership, mentoring, and coaching others. Ideally, you will also have:

• Training, communication and presentation skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Relevant tertiary qualifications
• Experience working in a highly unionised environment is desirable
• A genuine passion for safety and wellbeing

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary plus 4% KiwiSaver employer contribution
• 25 annual leave days
• Access to discounted travel, health insurance & holiday houses across NZ as part of the Staff Welfare Trust

Our people are everything. That’s why KiwiRail is committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace where everyone can feel valued, respected, and have equal opportunity to succeed. We encourage applications from people of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, personalities, ethnicities, abilities, and cultures.

If life’s a journey, KiwiRail is a great way of keeping your career moving through it. Ours is a fast-paced, inspiring, and truly customer-focused culture – where your career will connect you to real opportunities, while balancing work and whānau life.

We’re going places. Are you?

Applications close 16 September 2024

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