HSE Manager - Australia
**HSE Manager - Australia**
**Department**:Operations
**Employment Type**:Permanent - Full Time
**Location**:Sydney
**Description**
The HSE Manager Australia will be responsible for providing technical support to the Operations and Construction teams as well as the Origination and Execution (O&E) team and Senior Managers. This role will have responsibility to develop and implement a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) management system to benefit employees, joint venture partners, shareholders and contractors. In Australia there are currently no operational assets and one construction project (wind farm in Queensland) and a pipeline of development opportunities under consideration. Further construction projects should be expected.
The role reports to the Country Head Australia (based in Sydney) with a functional reporting line to the Head of HSE (based in London). The role could be based in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane with regular travel within Australia and occasional travel elsewhere. It will be necessary to visit Australian asset locations on a regular basis and attend meetings with the JV partner and contracted parties.
The role has no direct reports. It has no functional reports. It is in a peer group with similar HSE Manager roles across Cubico; Brazil, Colombia, Italy, USA and Iberia. Cubico currently has 21 employees in Australia (472 worldwide).
This professional will develop and provide technical and administrative direction on HSE local decisions, which bear critical importance to the Company. The HSE Manager will also provide technical guidance to identify, quantify, analyze and propose actions to control operational risks.
**Key Responsibilities**
Key Accountabilities include but are not limited to;
- Work together with the Head of HSE to drive a cultural change through the company and JV partnership to raise awareness of the criticality of having HSE at the heart of all activities;
- Work with the wider HSE team to develop the global HSE Management System;
- Develop and implement new local and global best practice HSE guidelines, actions, procedures and methodologies;
- Develop an annual HSE Plan for Cubico Australia;
- Actively participate in all HSE governance activities, whether under a JV or internal to Cubico;
- Define and drive Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting - both active and reactive monitoring;
- Review incident reports, support and conduct incident notification, classification and reporting;
- Lead incident investigation and KPI analysis to identify improvement actions;
- Ensure that Operations and Construction maintain emergency planning and response programs;
- Implement the corporate actions, programs, procedures and policies;
- Conduct HSE Meetings and provide training, as needed, for employees and contractors in order to build up in-house HSE capability;
- Present performance and progress against HSE plan at the Australia HSE Committee (monthly);
- Present Australian HSE performance or selected HSE topics at the Global HSE Committee (quarterly) or semi-annual review (with ExCom);
- Implement HSE Inspections and enable the Safety Walks program;
- Work with LOTO (Lock Out / Tag Out) providing support to the operation and contractors;
- Maintain positive and proactive relations with employees, contractors and regulatory agencies;
- Serve as a point-of-contact for HSE with the owner's engineering team and contracted HSE specialists at construction sites;
- Take the lead for the Australian team to collect, analyse and maintain data essential for effective safety and environmental programs;
- Support the operation to develop the Emergency Programs (BCP, DRP and CEP);
- Control the HSE Figures: number of incidents, worked hours and other leading and lagging indicators required by Cubico;
- Serve as local administrator for the corporate HSE software solution;
- Lead auditing, risk analysis and documentation systems;
- Take the lead for all HSE compliance activities regarding licences and permits across the Australian sites (some responsibility will rest with the JV partner);
- Lead the HSE aspects when integrating new acquisitions into the Cubico business; plant, people and procedures;
- Assist in the selection and start-up of key suppliers regarding HSE;
- Manage any suppliers of specialist HSE services;
- Provide an HSE expert lead for Cubico at regular and ad hoc meetings with the JV partner and others.
**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**
**Knowledge**
- 5+ years of HSE experience including practical field supervision and management of HSE programs in the energy sector;
- Safety Engineering post-graduation course and/or additional Health and Safety qualifications
- Fluency in written and spoken English;
- Knowledge and experience of implementing of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 systems;
- Knowledge of safety statistical measurement methodology;
**Skills**
- Understanding of behavioural safety approaches;
- Understanding and experience of co