Safety Advisor

The role

You will act as a trusted advisor and coach to build safety capability and strengthen critical risk management. The role focuses on Orchard Operations while supporting Post Harvest and Business Support functions.

What you will do

• Partner with managers and employees to build health and safety capability and ownership
• Support leaders and teams to complete Critical Control Verifications and strengthen critical risk management
• Support the identification, assessment and management of hazards, risks and critical controls
• Lead and facilitate investigations into incidents, near misses and workplace events
• Turn investigation findings and operational learnings into practical improvements
• Monitor safety performance and use data to identify trends and drive continuous improvement
• Support compliance with company standards, SOPs, legislative requirements and industry best practice
• Support contractor management, inductions, audits, inspections and critical risk verification activities
• Coach and support leaders to have effective safety conversations
• Partner with People & Culture and Communications to share safety stories and lessons learned

Required qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Health & Safety Advisor, Safety Business Partner or similar role
• A recognised qualification in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (level 3 or above) or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and associated regulations
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence leaders at all levels
• Experience leading workplace investigations and implementing meaningful corrective actions
• Strong understanding of risk assessment, critical risk management and control verification principles
• Experience conducting audits, inspections and compliance reviews
• Excellent communication, coaching and facilitation skills
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to identify trends and opportunities from data
• Confidence working across multiple sites, priorities and stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience within horticulture, agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, food processing or other operational environments

Benefits

• Highly visible role
• Varied, hands-on work
• Supportive People & Culture team

About the company

Mr Apple is New Zealand's largest vertically integrated apple grower, backed by NZX-listed Scales Corporation.