Health & Safety Lead - South Island

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity 

At Contact, we’re on a mission to create a better New Zealand—one where decarbonisation and wellbeing go hand in hand. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re looking for a Health & Safety Lead to champion safe, healthy, and mentally well outcomes across our South Island generation assets. 

You’ll be the connector, coach, and champion for our South Island Health & Safety Advisors—empowering them to support our front-line teams and helping us all navigate the complexities of operational work. Here’s a few things that will help you get a feel for what you’ll be driving: 

Leading and Developing the Team: Provide people leadership, coaching, and development for Health & Safety Advisors, ensuring they’re equipped to deliver on our H&S objectives. 

• Exploring Everyday Work: Encourage Advisors to spend time on work fronts, understanding how work is really done and where systems or resources need improvement. 
• Stakeholder engagement: Working with our South Island leaders to build their understanding of great H&S leadership so they can empower their teams to deliver safe work outcomes. 
• Supporting and Influencing Work Practices: Develop and lead health and safety processes for all South Island generation sites, building capability and balancing resources for safe, dependable performance. 
• Facilitating Information Flow: Enhance collaboration across all levels, breaking down boundaries and ensuring critical H&S information is shared and acted upon. 
• Predicting and Responding to Risk: Work with Advisors and operational teams to identify and proactively address areas of uncertainty and risk. 
• Fostering Learning and Improvement: Promote learning from both everyday work and unexpected events, facilitating learning teams and supporting effective H&S training and inductions. 
• Providing Expert Advice: Act as a subject matter expert, offering practical guidance to Advisors, operational leaders, and teams. 
• Championing Process Safety: Encourage a questioning attitude about what could go wrong and support Advisors in process safety awareness. 
• Supporting Renewable Growth Projects: Provide H&S support for South Island development or construction projects as needed. 
• Ensuring Compliance and Best Practice: Oversee compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other regulations, supporting Advisors in maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry rules and best practices. 

Representing the South Island: Act as the interface between South Island and North Island H&S teams and the Corporate H&S function, ensuring alignment and sharing learnings.