SafeWork NSW – Team Coordinator – Operations Regional South, Riverina Murray team
Grade: Inspector Consent Award, Team Coordinator
Salary Range: $152,397 - $155,409 + Superannuation
Duration: Ongoing (permanent)
Locations: Riverina Murray, Wagga or Griffith
Applications Close: Thursday 5th February 2026 (9:59AM)
About SafeWork NSW
Are you interested in contributing to meaningful work that ensures NSW workers come home safely every day?
If this sounds like you, a career as a SafeWork NSW Team Coordinator (Inspector) may be the pathway you’ve been looking for.
SafeWork NSW is the state’s workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to protect NSW workers by preventing and reducing work related fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety and associated legislation.
SafeWork NSW is undergoing an exciting and important period of transformation as we establish the organisation as a modern, strong and standalone Work Health and Safety Regulator.
We’re looking for diverse and dynamic people to join us in making a real difference to the safety and health of workers in NSW.
About the team
SafeWork NSW Operations Riverina Murray region has a strategic approach to supporting safe, healthy, and productive workplaces in the Riverina and Murray regions of Regional NSW. This approach focuses on protecting NSW workers through strategic stakeholder engagement, evidence-based and risk-focused harm prevention initiatives, and proportionate and targeted regulatory responses to incidents and service requests.
By engaging with stakeholders, implementing data-driven initiatives, and responding effectively to incidents, SafeWork NSW aims to reduce workplace harm and incidents in Riverina Murray promoting a culture of safety and health in NSW workplaces.
About the role
Reporting through to the Manager, Operations Regional, Riverina Murray, as a Team Coordinator you will provide supervision, operational support and quality assurance, conduct requests for service, incident investigations, prevention and response programs of work.
Principal supervision will be for Inspectors and support staff in the Wagga Wagga and Griffith offices.
The successful applicant will be able to nominate either the Wagga Wagga or Griffith office as their base location.
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Coordinate, supervise and support a team of professionals that may include Inspectors, specialists, project officers and support staff.
* Provide coordinated team supervision and operational support in the office and the field to ensure services and decisions align with our strategic plan, regulatory priorities, legislation, policies and procedures, and customer service standards, and are consistent, professional and responsive.
* Offer advice regarding safe work practices and how to comply with relevant work health and safety laws.
* Support the community and people of NSW by identifying emerging issues and industry trends and supporting implementation of prevention and response programs of work that address both physical and psychosocial harms and hazards.
* Build and maintain effective and professional working relationships with customers and stakeholders to improve WHS outcomes.
* Provide coaching and mentoring to team members, ensuring internal administrative and organisational requirements are completed.
* Deliver presentations, workshops, advisory services and forums.
* Contribute to a positive, supportive, and rewarding workplace.
About you
* Confident in engaging and building relationships with workplaces and stakeholders.
* Skilled at explaining complex information in clear, practical terms.
* Able to balance capability building with compliance and enforcement in NSW workplaces.
* Comfortable working in dynamic environments with competing priorities.
* Passionate about improving workplace safety through targeted industry specific proactive programs.
* Demonstrated ability to implement contemporary supervision strategies to lead a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and support staff in a coordinated wider team environment.
To be successful
* You will bring technical expertise, sound judgement and a strong commitment to workplace health and safety. To succeed in this role, you will:
* Apply your experience in WHS, compliance and enforcement to deliver improved safety outcomes.
* Build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders to achieve sustainable change.
* Communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, to a diverse audience including industry, unions and government stakeholders.
* Demonstrate resilience and professionalism when responding to complex, high-pressure situations.
* Contribute to organisational objectives by supporting colleagues and leading by example.
In joining SafeWork NSW, you will be rewarded with a great opportunity to apply your experience with your passion for workplace health and safety. You will:
* Work a 38-hour working week, including some weekends and participate in the After-Hours Emergency Response Service.
* Receive an attractive salary package along with the required tools of the trade, including a vehicle with access to private use (currently at a cost of approximately $227 per fortnight).
* Be able to access flexible working conditions within operational requirements.
Essential requirements
* Ability to travel, work remotely and out of usual business hours.
* Hold a NSW ‘C’ class drivers' licence with a satisfactory safe driving record and a requirement to maintain the safe driving record throughout employment.
* Satisfactory criminal record check.
* Satisfactory medical assessment capacity regarding physical and psychological impacts of the inherent duties of the role.
* Undertake the 12-month New Inspector Training Program (NITP) if required. This intensive program is delivered by our Registered Training Organisation and combines mandatory components of induction, class training, online learning, completion of set assessments and tasks, and extensive on-the-job field training with regular travel throughout NSW. For more information click here.
How to Apply
To start your journey towards joining our team please click on the link below and attach your resume (max 5 pages) and cover letter (max 2 pages), indicating the role you are applying for and what you would bring to this role, including demonstrated examples.
Please note that interviews will be conducted in our Wagga Wagga office.
Any questions about this role?
For enquiries relating to the role, please contact David Jones via David.Jones@safework.nsw.gov.au. For enquiries relating to the recruitment process, please contact Tayla Gibbs via Tayla.Gibbs@safework.nsw.gov.au
A talent pool may be created to fill future ongoing opportunities for a period of up to 18 months.
Salary Grade Team Coordinator, Inspectorate Consent Award, with the base salary for this role starting at $152397 base plus superannuation
Click Here to access the Role Description. For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Tayla Gibbs via tayla.gibbs@safework.nsw.gov.au.
Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.
Closing Date: 5th February 2026 (9:59AM)
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The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.
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We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you have any support or access needs that may require adjustments to allow you to fully participate in this selection process (including an alternate format of the application form) please contact tayla.gibbs@safework.nsw.gov.au or 02 9494 8351.
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