Health and Safety Business Partner

• Permanent Full Time | Starting salary of $140,820 + Plus 16.5% super with take home vehicle use
• A fortnightly Rostered Day Off (RDO) in support of work life balance 
• Flexible to multiple locations of Oatley, Silverwater, Potts Hill, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Cessnock, Beresfield, Thorton, Salt Ash or Homebush.
• Four roles available!

It’s an exciting time to join Ausgrid’s Health and Safety team. Following a realignment of our structure to support our shift towards a learning, fair and just culture, we are creating new opportunities for passionate health and safety professionals to partner with our people and leaders across diverse, high-risk portfolios. In this role, you’ll support the implementation of our 5-year Safety Rewired Strategy, helping to embed contemporary safety practices, strengthen risk management and contribute to projects across our network, major projects, battery systems and emerging markets.

See yourself working here

Your responsibilities will include:

• Model visible leadership and actively demonstrate our Work Safe Live Safe and Customer-focused values.
• Support our cultural transformation, partnering across our operational portfolios, working with our frontline leaders. Health and Safety Representative (HSRs) and Health and Safety Committees (HSCs)
• Support the delivery and implementation of the Safety Rewired Strategy and programs, aiding change management processes to ensure effective adoption across client groups.
• Lead and facilitate risk management, compliance reviews, and corrective action management activities across occupational and psychosocial hazards.
• Lead public safety incident investigations and reporting requirements.
• Translate data and trend analysis into business-unit-specific insights that support the identification of emerging risks and themes..
• Champion innovative ways of working that support our strategic objectives and reduce risk to our people and communities.
• Assist with tendering, contractor onboarding and joint venture assurance and risk management activities.

Spark our interest!

Our hiring decisions are not only based on your experience and skills, but your passion, attitude, and alignment to our core values.

Energise us through your skills and qualifications in:

Essential Qualifications

• Diploma level tertiary qualifications in work, health and safety and/or relevant trade-based qualifications or equivalent.

Essential Criteria

• Minimum 3 years demonstrated experience in a H&S role in high-risk industries. Demonstrated knowledge of safety theory and practical application across complex, geographically disbursed, matrixed organisations including Safety 2, Human and Organisational Performance (HOPs),
• Human Factors and Critical Control Management.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and proven ability to effectively communicate, influence, coach and mentor stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitation of complex risk assessments and investigations using ICAM or similar methodologies.
• Adaptive and agile critical thinking and processing ability, with the capacity to translate complex technical issues into simple, easy-to-understand explanations or processes.
• Demonstrated understanding of contractor management and delivery models.
• This role will be required to provide coverage of afternoon/night shift as required, in line with the EBA provisions.
• This role will be required to respond to serious incidents and injuries.

Desired Criteria

• Degree, postgraduate qualifications or equivalent in human factors, risk or occupational health and safety
• disciplines
• Sound understanding of high-risk work activities in transmission or distribution networks or the renewable
• energy sector.
• Lead Auditor OH&S Management Systems qualification.
• Certification IV in Training and Assessment.

More details on locations

Sydney working from Oatley, Silverwater or Potts Hill – Reporting to Pete Galanopoulos

Upper Hunter working from Muswellbrook, Singleton, or Cessnock – Reporting to Paul Olive

Hunter working from Beresfield, Thorton or Salt Ash - Reporting to Paul Olive

Major Projects and Battery Systems - Homebush – Reporting to Anthony Flintham

Life at Ausgrid

At Ausgrid, we go beyond just a competitive salary to offer an exciting range of benefits. From salary sacrificing electric vehicles and novated leasing, to discounted corporate health insurance and access to Fitness Passport, our benefits support your work here, and your life out there.

Celebrate success every day with our employee recognition program to bring out each other’s best. Looking to grow professionally? We’ve got you covered with study assistance, secondments, training and mentors, whose advice you’ll keep wherever you go.

We’re proud to offer gender-neutral parental leave to balance work when growing your family. And if you’re caring for elderly parents, our aged care support services offer expert guidance to help you access care for your loved ones. At Ausgrid, it's all about supporting you in every aspect of life.

Belonging at Ausgrid

To deliver the best possible service to our customers we strive towards a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Ausgrid is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and we encourage applications from women, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, people from the LGBTQIA+ community and First Nations people.

If you require support with your application/reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please reach out to our dedicated Talent Team recruitment@ausgrid.com.au.

Applications close date: Thursday 16 July 2026 at 11:55pm. (Please note, this advert may close early).

Applicants must have full Australian work rights to apply.

Ausgrid – An Equal Opportunity Employer

Our Values: Work Safe, Live Safe; Customer Focussed; Commercially Minded; Collaborative; Honest & Accountable; Respect