Safety & Resilience Advisor

Nau mai, haere mai. We’re Chorus. You may have already heard about us and know we’re the team empowering the digital future of Aotearoa with our ultra-fast fibre. We’re a talented bunch who are passionate about our purpose: Unleashing potential through connectivity. Enabling better futures for Aotearoa.

Te Momo Tūranga | Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Te Wāhi | Where: Auckland or Wellington

Te Pūtake | Why we’re hiring: We’re stepping into our next chapter, aspiring toward 80% fibre uptake across the motu by 2030. With our new strategy providing the roadmap for what we’re working to achieve and how we’ll get there, opportunities are emerging as we seek to expand our capability and talent in new and different spaces.

Te Whiwhinga Mahi | The Opportunity

You’re someone who doesn’t just understand Safety and Resilience; you know how to make it real for people on the ground. In this role, you’ll be a trusted partner to leaders across Chorus, providing practical, hands-on support and advice that helps them confidently navigate their Safety & Resilience (S&R) responsibilities. Acting as a key point of contact, you’ll build strong relationships across the business, guiding decision-making and ensuring alignment with organisational policies, regulatory requirements, and best practice.

A core part of this role is owning the end-to-end management of safety incidents. You’ll work closely with our service companies, to ensure the right processes are followed, investigations are thorough, and learnings are embedded to prevent recurrence. You’ll also partner closely with our Field Teams ensuring safety expectations are clear, understood, and consistently applied in the field.

Day to day, you’ll support operational and people leaders to embed a proactive and sustainable safety culture, helping them apply S&R processes, systems, and tools in a way that works in the real world. With a focus of around 70% Safety and 30% Resilience, you’ll also play an important role in strengthening how the business prepares for and responds to disruption - across areas like Quality, Business Continuity, and sub-contractor exploitation. From incident management and capability building, through to resilience planning and continuous improvement initiatives, this is a role where your influence will be felt right across the organisation.

Ō Wheako, ō Pūkenga | Your Experience

We’re looking for a pragmatic and influential Safety professional who knows how to balance strong process with real-world application. You build trust quickly, aren’t afraid to challenge when needed, and bring others on the journey to lift capability and culture.

• A track record of influencing and embedding positive Health & Safety culture within large, complex environments
• Strong experience engaging operational leaders to ensure Business Resilience roles and expectations are understood and delivered
• Proven ability to coach, mentor, and uplift capability across a broad range of stakeholders
• Experience developing clear, fit-for-purpose operational documentation aligned to business and regulatory requirements
• The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in complex, high-risk environments
• Strong grounding in providing technical and legal H&S advice within organisations of similar scale
• Experience contributing to operational planning to ensure alignment with H&S and resilience objectives
• Demonstrated experience leading or overseeing incident investigations, ensuring robust process, insights, and outcomes
• Experience operating effectively within adaptive, matrixed organisations

Mō mātou | About us

We’re shaping a future where all New Zealanders are free to access opportunities that define their own lives, as we expand our network to help Aotearoa grow.

With a new strategy in place and a powerful, inspiring purpose, Chorus is an exciting space right now. We’re on the path to moving from being the great network builderto being the great network operator. To do that, we embrace our mindsets : Be bold, ignite growth , Honour our past, reimagine our future , and Connect communities, empower people . We need people who not only embody these mindsets and the underpinning behaviours but who also inspire others to do the same.

With our Chorus Care package benefits behind you, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow alongside a caring, open-minded team in an environment that embraces diversity, encourages innovation, redefines flexibility, and offers an enviable work life balance.

Nōu te mana | Work your way

We know how to do hybrid working well and have been doing it for years and encourage you to find ways to work flexibly. If it suits your circumstances and delivers great outcomes for Chorus – that’s when you know you’ve found the Flex@Chorus Sweet Spot!

He Wāhi Whakaōrite Whiwhinga Mahi.

We have a fair, inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are our strengths, we connect on shared values, and everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Please let us know of any accessibility requirements you would like us to consider to support you with your application. We know women are underrepresented in senior roles, and we want to change that. If you’re a woman looking for your next step, in a company that genuinely supports your growth, has a flexible work culture and visible female leaders we’d encourage you to apply.

Come be part of a new era at Chorus, apply today.