$88,175 - $100,724 (plus Super)
- Orchard Hills - NSW
**The Role**
Are you looking for an exciting and challenging role supporting one of the highest Defence priorities?
Do you have a dynamic and flexible approach, and enjoy working in a multi-disciplined team?
Do you have a strong customer service focus? Are you seeking new challenges?
If you answered 'yes', this may be the role you are looking for.
As an APS 6 Work Health and Safety Officer, located at Defence Establishment Orchard Hills, you will work with elements of the Explosive Ordnance Maintenance Directorate, Systems Program Offices, and other GWEO Group business units located in the Sydney area, and throughout Australia. You will work around some of the most exciting and complex guided weapons and explosive ordnance products used by the Australian Defence Force.
You will spend your days:
- Responding to WHS related enquiries from workers at Defence Establishment Orchard Hills and HMAS Waterhen.
- Conducting WHS inspections as per the GWEO Group WHS Matrix at Defence Establishment Orchard Hills and HMAS Waterhen.
- Ensuring WHS related documentation is up to date, including policy, Site Safety Management Agreements, Risk Assessments, Work Instructions, and Inductions.
- Maintaining accurate Hazardous Chemical data using ChemAlert
- Conducting investigations of WHS events using the Sentinel platform.
- Disseminating WHS information to workers at Defence Establishment Orchard Hills and HMAS Waterhen.
- Assisting WHS colleagues throughout the GWEO Group with WHS related tasks as required.
- Assisting the WHS Manager with WHS related tasks as required.
- Attending WHS meetings and fora as required.
- Adhoc WHS tasks as required.
- There will be some domestic business travel associated with this position.
- The nature of this role will require the successful applicant to be onsite at least four days per week.
**About our Team**
The Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) Group Headquarters delivers a broad range of coordination and enabling services to support the Chief of GWEO, GWEO Group executives, divisions, staff, and external stakeholders. The Corporate Performance Directorate focuses on a wide range of corporate and enabling functions to support GWEO Group in meeting its delivery and compliance obligations to Capability Managers, Defence and Whole of Government.
The services include governance and assurance, quality management, risk management, WHS, operating budget management and security and facilities. Our staff are located at HMAS Stirling, HMAS Waterhen, Victoria Barracks Melbourne, Benalla, Defence Estate Orchard Hills, Penrith, RAAF Base Amberley, and in Canberra. We are committed to investing in your training and development to ensure your time with us is deeply rewarding, both personally and professionally.
We are committed to achieving an inclusive and respectful workplace culture, where all our people can achieve their potential GWEO comprises approximately 560 dedicated employees performing requirements setting; contracting; procurement; international logistics; domestic manufacturing; item management and maintenance, and co-ordination of disposal activities. GWEO partners with domestic and international industry to deliver materiel capability to Defence, managing a multi-billion dollar portfolio of complex, high-profile acquisitions and sustainment activities to support the ADF.
Our people are capable, innovative, committed and diverse. We support an inclusive culture that emphasises respect and collaboration. In EMB, you will enjoy experiences and opportunities that, as an APS employee, you simply would not get with any other organisation. Other benefits include; 15.4% superannuation, access to personalised professional development pathways, including opportunities for Defence-funded post-graduate study, additional leave days between Christmas and New Year, focus on work/life balance and salary sacrifice opportunities.
You will be:
- Organised, and have the ability to manage competing priorities to respond to your stakeholder needs.
- Able to use your initiative to make informed decisions and solve complex problems under limited direction.
- Able to support complex WHS activities, whilst maintaining integrity, and fostering a positive team culture.
- Accountable for ongoing self-improvement and professional development.
If you are someone who:
- Enjoys technically challenging and complex assurance activities.
- Is creative, pragmatic and solutions focused.
- Is not afraid to challenge the traditional ways of doing business
Then this is the role for you