Join the Cold Chain That Feeds the World.
For over 120 years, Americold has connected producers, processors, distributors, and retailers to ensure food stays safe, fresh, and accessible. With 240+ facilities across four continents and 14,000+ team members, we're a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics. Our mission is to help our customers feed the world – and we're looking for people who share that purpose. We value customer service, innovation, and inclusion, and we invest in our people's growth and well-being. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a company that puts people first, Americold is the place for you.
About Us
Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches food suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, including some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety to deliver on their commitments.
What You'll Do
Americold is seeking an experienced, proactive Safety Manager to provide critical operational safety support across six Queensland sites and one site in Western Australia. This is a true business partnering role — working shoulder to shoulder with operational leaders while driving safety excellence, workers' compensation management, and return-to-work outcomes.
If you thrive in a field-based, hands-on environment and love influencing leaders to lift safety performance, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
As the QLD & WA Safety Manager, you will coordinate, guide, and elevate safety, workers' compensation, and return‑to‑work functions across multiple high-performing operational sites. You'll act as the trusted advisor to site leadership, embedding safe practices, leading investigations, and shaping a proactive safety culture.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys autonomy, problem-solving, and partnering closely with the business to deliver practical safety outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide hands-on safety coaching and support to operational leaders, empowering them to lead safety effectively.
* Implement and maintain safety and RTW systems across QLD & WA, ensuring consistency and compliance.
* Lead serious incident investigations, support site risk assessments, and drive risk‑management strategies.
* Manage workers' compensation and return‑to‑work processes, including insurer liaison, early intervention, and rehabilitation planning.
* Conduct risk and trend analysis, providing actionable insights and improvement recommendations to site management.
* Drive safety improvement programs and awareness initiatives across all sites.
* Champion safety culture through behaviours, communication, and regular BBS engagement.
* Coordinate state safety reporting, audits, and regulatory compliance requirements.
* Collaborate as a true business partner, building strong relationships and fostering a cooperative, solution-focused approach.
* Spend significant time in the field (approx. 70%), travelling across sites and assessing operations — including cold‑storage environments below freezing.
What Experience And Education You Need.
* Tertiary qualifications in Safety or equivalent post-secondary studies.
* Minimum 5 years' experience in Safety.
* Strong influencing skills with the ability to make and execute effective decisions.
* Experience within manufacturing and/or logistics environments, including managing high MHE (Material Handling Equipment) traffic and associated risk controls.
* Proven experience in RTW/Rehabilitation processes and safety compliance.
* Strong analytical, coaching, and problem-solving capabilities.
* High attention to detail with strong planning and organisational skills.
* Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities.
* Advanced communication skills with the ability to mentor and coach leaders.
* Proficiency in Windows, Outlook, Webex, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Warehouse Management Systems.
What We Offer
At Americold, you'll enjoy a range of benefits designed to support your well-being, growth, and lifestyle.
This includes access to ongoing
leadership development programs
to strengthen your capabilities and advance your career, as well as a
Fitness Passport
to keep you active and healthy. We offer
flexible work arrangements
to help you balance work and life, along with
travel discounts
and
novated leasing options
that make everyday life more affordable. You'll also have access to
Sonder
, our 24/7 employee wellbeing and safety portal, providing confidential support whenever you need it.
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.
What We Offer
At Americold, we believe in taking care of our people. We offer benefits designed to support your health, financial well-being, and future. Our associates know what's in it for them – opportunity, purpose and a values-driven culture. When you join Americold, you become part of a mission to help our customers feed the world.
U.S. Only: Americold offers a range of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, STD/LTD coverage, 401(k) with Company match, FSA, life insurance, EAP, and paid time off, some of which may vary depending on the particular position and whether it is covered by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).