Health Safety & Wellness Advisor

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

About the role

We’re part of one of Australia’s most iconic and trusted businesses. The Coles Group has over 120,000 team members working across more than 2,400 retail outlets, providing fresh food, groceries, general merchandise and liquor to millions of people every week. 

We are proud of the way we support the safety and wellbeing of our team members, suppliers, customers and broader community – making Safer Choices Together. 

As the Coles Liquor Health Safety and Wellness Advisor QLD, you will work in the Coles Liquor Group across our three leading brands (First Choice, Liquorland and Vintage Cellars), each with their own unique offering and customer base. 

You’ll partner with the QLD State Operations teams to develop and implement the state safety plan leading to improvements in safety performance and culture. 

What you’ll be doing

This role will leverage your exceptional stakeholder and influencing skills to passionately deliver a great safety culture within a multi-site business. You will be a trusted expert, providing safety advice to the state teams including Supply Chain, Renewal, Merchandising and Loss, to integrate practical safety into decision making and ensure a focus on effective risk reduction.
 
Working closely with the Coles Liquor Head of Safety and the National Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team, you'll work collaboratively, supporting the broader delivery of the health, safety and wellbeing strategy across the liquor team. On a day-to day basis your focus will be on process and practice that ensures the safety and wellbeing of our team members and customers across Queensland. 

You’ll also make an impact through: 

• Implementing safety strategies in partnership with operations and key stakeholders 
• Coach, mentor and guide stakeholders to sustain a proactive safety culture
• Provide direction, advice and practical support to store and area management teams on safety, injury management and wellbeing related matters
• Analyse state safety trends and providing insights to drive the achievement of the state safety scorecard across a combination of lead and lag measures 
• Ensure the identification of emerging risk, develop and monitor risk registers and ensure mitigation of identified risks are put into effect
• Facilitate root cause analysis and incident investigations on all significant incidents
• Ensuring compliance with State Self Insurance Audit requirements and the close-out of corrective actions

About you and your skills

We’re looking for an experienced passionate Health, Safety & Wellness Advisor with exposure to a fast paced dynamic retail environment or a related industry, preferably within a self-insurance environment. 

You’ll also need:

A high level of influencing, interpersonal and coaching capability demonstrated experience in a similar advisor/business partner position across a multi-site business

• A Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) or a related field of study
• Experience in self-insurance (desirable) and injury management 
• Technical knowledge of applicable legislation, and good implementation practices in large organisations
• Ability to operate under pressure and with autonomy making risk-based decisions to drive performance improvement and safety behavioural change
• Role will require travel to stores and hence you will need access to your own reliable vehicle 

Take your next step into something bigger, apply now

With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is invested in and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work including work from home, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that’s just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. Find out more in the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site.