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Head of People and Safety

Melbourne, Victoria💼 Full-time💰 $128,188–$128,188🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-27

Core

Strategic leader responsible for driving a culture of safety, wellbeing, and accountability across the organization while leading workplace health and safety, injury management, and return-to-work functions.

Role type

Senior IC Head of People and Safety

Builds

Safer workplaces and improved outcomes for the workforce through data-driven safety strategies and injury management programs.

Domain

Local government / Workplace Health and Safety

Deliverable

physical/clinical work

Required skills

Strategic program development, psychosocial risk management, data-driven decision making, change management, stakeholder management, legislative compliance expertise

Preferred skills

Experience in navigating complexity and sensitivity, conflict resolution

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Build and foster a safety culture, develop holistic safety and injury prevention action plans, inculcate psychosocial risk management into business operations, align with People & Culture team for holistic support, use data and evidence-based thinking to inform safety decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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