Westland Milk Products Looking for Health & Safety Advisor at Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand Full Time

Born on the beautifully raw West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Westland Milk Products is a well-known New Zealand end to end dairy manufacturer with an excellent international reputation that embodies the West Coast spirit in all that it does. It’s taken some good old-fashioned hard work to get where we are, and our committed team is a huge part of our ongoing success. We process over 700 million litres of milk a year and produce a wide range of consumer and foodservice products, and dairy ingredients and we are truly passionate about the world-class products we produce.

The Role

A fantastic opportunity has arisen at our Hokitika site for a Health & Safety Advisor to join our committed H&S team. Working in a team of 4, reporting to the Health & Safety Manager, this role will ensure compliance with legislative requirements and help drive strategic initiatives aligned with the company’s Zero Harm health and safety objectives, and support the continuous improvements of our company health and safety culture, behaviours and performance. This is a hands-on role that is expected to be highly visible to its stakeholders by spending the majority of its time out in the business providing coaching and advice on health and safety matters. This role is critical in ensuring Westland Milk Products keeps Health & Safety as an integral part of our business, where keeping our people safe is our #1 priority.

More specifically, the Health & Safety Advisor will be responsible for:

• Assisting with the development and implementation of robust health, safety and wellbeing initiatives
• Coaching, guiding and mentoring our people in the application of health and safety policies, guidelines, and practices
• Developing and maintaining relevant safety documents and records
• Incident investigation & risk management and reporting on any H&S incidents
• Creating and implementing site safety plans across all business units
• Supporting site Emergency Preparedness & Responses
• Assisting with relevant legislative and organisational H&S compliance requirements

Ideally Applicants Will Possess

• Previous proven Health & Safety experience, preferably gained in a large organisation or manufacturing environment and ideally supported by relevant H&S qualifications (completed or in progress).
• Working knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, and WorkSafe policies
• Knowledge of permit systems and high-risk activity management would be beneficial and any ICAM knowledge / training, would be highly advantageous
• Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate a wide range of information and ideas to a diverse audience along with excellent written communication skills to deliver reports, manuals, training material and policy documents
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and build effective working relationships
• A proactive approach and a high level of attention to detail.
• The ability and desire to work cooperatively as part of a small but dynamic team demonstrating energy, vision and initiative is also essential.

Why Westland Milk Products?

At Westland Milk Products, We Are More Than Just Dairy – We Are a World-class Health Food Provider. Our Core Values Drive Everything We Do

• Excellence – Embrace & drive change that creates opportunity & growth.
• Accountability – You. Me. We own it.
• Innovation – The how & why of what we do is important.
• Win-Win – Together, we are better.
• Respect – Respect who we are & embrace diversity.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary + company incentive scheme
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Career development & leadership opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced parental leave provisions
• Be part of a company making a global impact!
• + delicious, discounted grass-fed butter!!!

No day will ever look the same as you immerse yourself into this busy and dynamic environment and if you love working with people, then this is the role for you. Please see the accompanying position description (available on our Westland Careers page westlandcareers.co.nz) for further information.

APPLY NOW!!!

Applications will close on Sunday 30th March 2025. To apply for this vacancy, you MUST possess current eligibility to work in New Zealand.