Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Support our safety & wellbeing performance - educate & implement strategies to support our teams understanding of best HS&W practice & behaviours

• Champion HS&W in the workplace
• Report on and implement strategies across the business
• Bring you previous HS&W experience and create change
  
  

Championing a positive Health Safety & Wellbeing culture you will be a critical part of the business while ensuring that we improve and maintain a high standard.

Based in our Head Office in Highbrook this role reports to our Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager and supports our teams across the motu. We have two distribution centers with multiple offices and field staff across Aotearoa.

In this position you will work across the business and with our Health and Safety Representatives to educate and implement various HS&W strategies. You will ensure our people understand and comply with good practices and complete investigations and audits when needed, reporting on our operation and presenting to ELT.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Assist in the implementation of programmes to provide a safe and healthy working environment for all employees
• Build trusting relationships with internal staff and collaborate with team members to ensure regulatory compliance
• Assist with the collation of information, trends analysis, and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions, relating to all incidents and hazards that are reported
• Support hazard, risk, and injury prevention processes, in accordance with company policies and procedures, and applicable New Zealand legislation
• Facilitate the identification and reporting of hazards, and assist with maintenance of hazard registers
• Conduct incident investigations as directed by the Health, Safety, & Wellbeing Manager
• Ensure company certification and accreditation programmes and processes are complied with e.g. ISO14001 and aiming to achieve ISO45001
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Relevant H&S qualification, ideally tertiary level
• Proven experience in a health, safety and wellbeing role, ideally from a supply chain, FMCG, transport or high-risk environment
• Working knowledge of relevant H&S legislation and compliance regulations
• Proven experience and understanding in conducting incident investigations, H&S auditing, risk assessment and risk management, including critical risk in the workplace
• Previous experience in the development and implementation of H&S systems, policies and standard operating procedures
• Ability to instil trust across a diverse workforce and establish meaningful relationships with stakeholders
• Experience in delivering and developing H&S training programmes
  
  

People and Culture

• Develop your skills with a personalized development plan
• Free parking onsite with a café
• Great people! A business you can be proud to work for!
  
  

Our brand is deceiving. When you think OfficeMax, you think office and stationery products. And sure, that is what we sell - but we are more solutions focused, more customer centric, and more about supporting and partnering with our customers and suppliers, than what you may assume.

As a distributor and business partner to over 30,000 business customers across Aotearoa, our workplace solutions have to be vast - a near endless shopping aisle if you will. Whether your customer is a scientific marine reserve or an advertising agency or a restaurant - every business across the motu has a need for one, if not all, of the solutions we provide. Opportunities are endless and as a business, we are prepared to evolve.

OfficeMax has built our brand on a reputation and delivery of service you can be proud to represent. We are successful because we are prepared to evolve, adapt, and learn, in order to provide a true partnership - whether it be with our customers and communities, or suppliers and business partners, or most importantly with our people.

We have a focus on growth - for our people, our solutions, and our customers. Our aim is to support the growth of your capabilities by providing learning opportunities that allow you to take accountability for your career direction.

Not only are we people focused, but we are hugely passionate about being accountable for our sustainability footprint and our support to Barnardos 0800 What's Up line, Aotearoa New Zealand's only helpline for children and teenagers. We are also proud to be Government partners of the Ikura project, where we provide free period products to education providers across the country.

By joining OfficeMax, you are choosing a business that prioritises diversity of culture and thought. You will bring your growth mind-set, a lens of curiosity and enjoy the challenge of constant evolution. No one day is the same! - haere mai, come join us!