Moana New Zealand Looking for Health at Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui Full Time

Health, Safety, Wellbeing & Compliance Advisor

• Newly created role
• Part of site leadership team
• You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be eligible to apply for this position.

Ko wai tatou | Who We Are:

Moana New Zealand is the largest Māori owned fisheries company in New Zealand. We are true guardians of the world’s most pristine and sustainably managed fisheries, with a deep sense of responsibility to our people and respect for kaimoana and kai ora.

He aha tāu e mahi ana | What You’ll Be doing:

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to enhancing their experience, so every employee can be at their best at work and go home safely every day.

Reporting to the Site Manager, this newly created role is an integral member of the site leadership team and is accountable leading, executing and embedding a high culture of zero tolerance and best in class health & safety and compliance practices across site operations.

The overall focus is to maintain the site workplan that optimises health, safety, wellbeing and compliance performance. This includes working closely with the Group GM Health & Safety, and site leaders to deliver programs, initiatives, and changes that increase awareness, education and employee accountability for health, safety and wellbeing, ensuring an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement at all levels.

As a Health & Safety Champion you will be process driven, a natural communicator and trainer who works in a collaborative, open and integrated way. You will relish the opportunity to have accountability for a site health & safety program, and the ability to cultivate a highly engaged, and unified culture to collectively embed best in class H & S systems, processes, and practices.

With responsibility for leading and setting the direction for Health and Safety site performance; planning, monitoring, reporting, and achievement of KPIs and targets, you must have a proven background effectively influencing and driving processes, programs and growth initiatives, that deliver tangible and meaningful results.

Key focus areas:

• Develop and implement operational site Health, Safety and Wellbeing annual work plan, employee training programs, and robust governance and compliance systems.
• Ensure all health and safety systems and processes are effectively managed and functioning appropriately, identifying areas for improvement.
• Review site standard operating procedures and other H&S documentation, ensuring they are fit for purpose, and assisting with reviews and updates
• Assist managers with hazard audits, reviewing incidents and investigations.
• Delivering new employee H & S inductions and existing employee training programs
• Regular reporting, and communication of performance outcomes, and achievement against targets
• Provide advice to managers on risk and mitigation, carrying out safety observations and facilitating H&S training for them and their teams.
• Maintaining all compliance activities including audits and active participation in external Auditors (MPI, USFSIS, USFDA, Halal Certifiers, AsureQuality etc.)
• Using continuous improvements tools for resolution of failures

As part of the site leadership team, you will be a culture champion and inspire, encourage, and support managers in leading their teams through an ongoing program of change that sustains the highest standards of compliance, supported by the delivery of bespoke training, and initiatives that drive awareness, understanding and responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing across the site.

A big picture thinker, who is hands on you will quickly garner a sound understanding of business drivers and pressures.

Ko ngā mea ka hiahiatia e koe kia angitu te haere |What you’ll need to be successful:

You must have sound knowledge and experience in operational health & safety requirements; ideally within manufacturing, FMCG and/or primary industry. A natural leader, who is agile and resilient you will enjoy the challenges and rewards of collaboratively integrating best in class compliance, and delivering results that surpass expectation, whilst creating an environment of collective and individual accountability for safety.

A strategic thinker you will be experienced in developing workplans with clear objectives, workstreams, performance targets and activity, aligned to strategy. An operational doer, you will have a flair for presenting and delivering training workshops that connect with a diverse workforce, and accelerates employee understanding, and application of compliance practices.

You must be able to demonstrate your ability to successfully embed behaviours and processes as well as create trusted partnerships, and relationships at all levels. Along with a reputation as a professional, who possesses a high level of integrity, and energy, it is essential you are organised and able to manage multiple and conflicting priorities.

Change management and project management skills and expertise would be advantageous.

ō tātou iwi

If you want to be part of shaping the future of Moana New Zealand, we welcome your application to this opportunity.

Please send your resume and cover letter c/o Moana’s recruitment team to [email protected] and in the subject box please put the job title. Closing date for application is 19 August 2022.