About us

The HMC Group has extensive aviation, tourism, and accommodation operations in some of the most iconic regions of Australia and is seeking a Group Work Health and Safety Advisor to drive the WHS function across the Group.

The HMC Group currently has offices in Perth, Kununurra, Broome, Karratha, Geraldton and Adelaide, and has an expanding team of approaching 400 employees, with further and substantial business growth forecast over the next five years.

The HMC Group is a collection of quality businesses under common ownership and has expanded rapidly in both geographic location and size of operations over the past 8 years.

About the role:

This position offers a unique opportunity to design, implement, and lead a WHS framework across regional WA, supporting aviation and tourism operations while making a real impact on local communities.

With safety at the heart of everything HMC Group does, this role not only complements the existing strong aviation compliance and risk management framework but also empowers the right candidate to be a change-maker. You will work closely with passionate teams across various business units to drive safer and healthier outcomes, ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation and promoting a proactive safety culture.

This high-collaboration role allows a proactive and hands-on approach, partnering with each business unit to assess, monitor, and mitigate both work health and safety risks and other enterprise risks, supporting our organisation's regulatory compliance obligations.

Key Duties and responsibilities include:

- Legislative and Regulatory Compliance: Stay updated on all relevant legislation, standards, and regulations affecting HMC Group’s diverse businesses and provide expert guidance to each business unit, ensuring a clear understanding and effective management of their WHS compliance obligations.

- WHS Framework Development: Design, implement, and continuously improve a comprehensive workplace health and safety system, incorporate cutting-edge controls and strategies to effectively mitigate health and safety risks across all business units.

- Strategic WHS Leadership: Identify and drive long-term strategic initiatives within the WHS portfolio.



Conduct in-depth research and provide actionable recommendations to the leadership team to enhance safety outcomes and operational efficiency.

- Psychosocial Hazard Management: Increase awareness of psychosocial hazards within the workplace and collaborate with leaders to develop and implement robust controls, fostering a supportive and safe work environment.

- Continuous Improvement: Lead the ongoing enhancement of WHS policies, processes, systems, and training programs, focusing on improving operational risk management and achieving superior compliance outcomes across the organisation.

- Safety Culture Promotion: Champion a proactive safety culture across the HMC Group, develop and deliver engaging training programs and awareness initiatives that instil a deep commitment to safety and compliance within all teams.

- WHS Investigations: Oversee and conduct thorough WHS investigations, ensuring they are conducted to the highest standards, review reports and ensure timely closure of findings, driving accountability and continuous improvement in safety practices.

- Workers’ Compensation Management: Collaborate to effectively manage workers’ compensation matters, including the coordination of return-to-work plans, compensation claims, and payments for injured workers.

About you:

- Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety or equivalent.

- Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience working in a relevant WHS or HSE role.

- Previous aviation experience is advantageous but not essential.

- Knowledge of and ability to interpret relevant health and safety legislation (including applicable acts, regulations, standards and codes of practice, policies and procedures).

- A working knowledge of how the workers compensation system works so as to be able to manage this function within the business.

- Expert knowledge of contemporary safety issues and best practices,



coupled with a deep understanding of statutory framework governing safety and risk.

- Experience in the development and implementation of risk management frameworks.

- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate in a confident and positive manner in both a written and verbal capacity.

- Analytical mind and excellent problem-solving skills, able to interpret various regulatory requirements and standards and devise solutions that balance competing risk and compliance requirements with operational objectives.

- Ability to travel domestically, largely within WA as required.

Enterprises within the Group include:

Nexus Airlines – Western Australia’s newest regional airline, servicing Western Australia and beyond.

Aviair - One of Australia’s largest and leading fixed wing general aviation operators with charter, scheduled services and scenic flights operating throughout the Kimberley and Pilbara regions for corporate, mining, government and tourism clients.

HeliSpirit – HeliSpirit offers tourism helicopter services from eleven spectacular locations in the Kimberley, Pilbara, and Goldfields regions, as well as a range of corporate and charter helicopter services in the north west of WA.

Australian Helicopter Academy - Providing commercial helicopter pilot training.

Bungle Bungle Savannah Lodge & Guided Tours - Eco-accommodation in the heart of Purnululu National Park & Guided walking tours with a focus on indigenous training and employment whilst also providing authentic indigenous tourism experiences.

Freshwater East Kimberley Apartments - Kununurra’s leading accommodation offering with sixty resort style apartments.

The PumpHouse Restaurant – an iconic Kununurra dining establishment on the banks of the Ord River offering a quality dining option to locals and visitors alike.

Kimberley Experiences – providing specialist and personalised Kimberley travel itineraries by highly experienced travel designers.

To apply, please submit your CV together with a cover letter addressing your suitability for the position. The HMC Group reserves the right to remove the advertised position prior to this date.

No agency applications will be accepted at this time.

📌 Group Work Health and Safety Advisor (Perth)
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