HSE Business Partner

About Us

At Tip Top Bakeries, we're proud to produce an extensive range of wholesome sliced bread, muffins, crumpets, pies, and bakery snacks. Our purpose of ‘Everyday Moments of Goodness' represents the lives we touch and the difference we make. Those moments that bring a smile, make us proud, or keep us safe, are moments we strive for through our work.

We take pride in supporting our people to learn, grow, and develop throughout their careers with Tip Top Bakeries. We believe in the power of an inclusive and diverse workforce and invest in meaningful initiatives to remove barriers and enable our employees to have a satisfying and rewarding career with us. Our vision for Tip Top Bakeries is an organisation where everyone belongs, everyone is valued, and everyone has equal opportunity.

Join the team and be part of one of our iconic brands like Tip Top, Abbotts Bakery, Bürgen and Golden.

Job description:

• Opportunity to get involved in an abundance of HSE projects and initiatives
• Work with a great HSE team, that values collaboration
• Wellbeing and safety a top priority at Tip Top - It is so important that it is one of our values!

We are seeking a passionate and hands on HSE Business Partner for our Carrara bakery. Reporting to the Regional HSE Manager, the HSE Business Partner will coach and lead the site in providing technical and practical HSE support by partnering with our leaders and managing risk to continually reduce harm to people and the environment. They will be contributing to the successful roll out of the Safe and Well Everyday program, facilitation of risk reduction training programs and oversight of Worker's Compensation and Return to Work plans as appropriate.

The HSE team is responsible for supporting the business to achieve great safety standards, to implement initiatives that drive best practice risk management, and create a strong safety culture.

Purpose of the Role

• Developing leaders' HSE capability by partnering, coaching, and supporting them in the management of their people safety culture and risk reduction programs
• Provide thought leadership and direction in managing risk as well as supporting teams to develop plans to manage risk across core threat to life areas
• Monitor, analyse and report on Injury and incident data and ensure insights are acted on
• Champion compliance across the site for HSE and Workers Compensation Acts, legislation and regulation, codes of practice and applicable Australian and New Zealand standards
• Provide expert advice, support and coaching to leaders and people (at all levels) to drive improved risk management practices, meet performance targets across the sites, and maintain adherence to Group audit criteria, policies and procedures.
• Provide guidance and support to site teams to actively reduce the environmental impact
• Oversee the effective implementation of the site's injury management program
• Provide expert advice and support to leaders with workers compensation and return to work (RTW) plans, taking responsibility for claims files and reviews, RTW plans and related communications

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to be able to work autonomously but also engage as an enthusiastic team member and leader. The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in a HSE role with demonstrated leadership and technical skills to promote improvement in safety culture and sustainability at sites or in a high-risk capacity environment
• Food manufacturing/FMCG industry experience will be highly regarded
• Tertiary Qualification in Health and Safety, Allied Health, Occupational Hygiene or Environmental Sciences preferred
• Exceptional communications skills with experience of engaging effectively across a wide range of stakeholders
• The ability to prioritise tasks in a dynamic and fast paced environment with a high level of resilience
• Be a leader that drives cultural change and have an influence over projects

Working with Tip Top, we offer many benefits including:

• Family-friendly policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave, additional paid time off to ease back to work and ongoing superannuation contributions during unpaid parental leave
• Recognition and award programs, including access to our online rewards platform
• Health and wellbeing programs including access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, and on-site physiotherapy services
• Flexible working options
• Access to an extensive range of internal trainings and development programs for your career
• Financial support for approved study pathways, as well as traineeship and apprenticeship programs
• Two paid volunteer days per year as part of our focus on Community Partnerships
• Novated Leasing Options

Start the Conversation

If this role sounds like you and you're eager to learn, grow, and help create everyday moments of goodness, we want to hear from you. To apply for this opportunity please submit your application by clicking on the ‘apply now' button.

Our Recruitment Process typically consists of a brief, prearranged telephone or video call, followed by 1-2 interviews in-person or over Zoom/Teams. We're happy to adjust our recruitment process to support your accessibility needs. Let us know your needs in providing a positive, barrier-free recruitment process via phone on (02) 9168 4200 or email to ttpeopleservices@gwf.com.au . Please do not call to enquire about this position as the phone number is for requesting accessibility needs only.

During the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which include a medical (includes drug & alcohol testing) and a criminal record check.

At Tip Top we strive to create a place where Everyone belongs, Everyone is valued, and Everyone has equal opportunity. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.