Safety Advisor

Responsibilities

• You'll be a trusted advisor across our sites, helping to identify risks, improve safety performance, and champion best practice throughout the business.
• Partnering with managers and employees to build health and safety capability and ownership across the business
• Supporting leaders and teams to complete robust Critical Control Verifications (CCVs) and strengthen critical risk management
• Supporting the identification, assessment and management of hazards, risks and critical controls
• Leading and facilitating investigations into incidents, near misses and workplace events in partnership with site leaders
• Turning investigation findings and operational learnings into practical improvements
• Monitoring safety performance and using data and insights to identify trends and drive continuous improvement
• Supporting compliance with company standards, SOPs, legislative requirements and industry best practice
• Supporting contractor management, inductions, audits, inspections and critical risk verification activities
• Coaching and supporting leaders to have effective safety conversations and confidently manage health and safety within their areas

Requirements

• We're looking for a safety professional who combines technical expertise with strong relationship-building skills and a genuine desire to make a difference.

What you'll be doing

Partnering with People & Culture and Communications to share safety stories, lessons learned and positive initiatives across the business

You'll have

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Health & Safety Advisor, Safety Business Partner or similar role
• A recognised qualification in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (level 3 or above) or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and associated regulations
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence leaders at all levels
• Experience leading workplace investigations and implementing meaningful corrective actions
• Strong understanding of risk assessment, critical risk management and control verification principles
• Experience conducting audits, inspections and compliance reviews

Excellent communication, coaching and facilitation skills

Strong analytical skills and the ability to identify trends and opportunities from data

Confidence working across multiple sites, priorities and stakeholders

Experience within horticulture, agriculture, forestry, manufacturing, food processing or other operational environments would be advantageous

Why you'll love working with us

A highly visible role where you can genuinely influence culture and outcomes

Varied, hands-on work across orchards, packhouses, cool stores and support functions

A supportive People & Culture team that values collaboration, innovation and fresh thinking

The chance to work for New Zealand's largest vertically integrated apple grower, backed by NZX-listed Scales Corporation

If you’re passionate about health, safety and wellbeing and want to work alongside good people to make a practical difference every day, we’d love to hear from you. Applications close Sunday 11th October.