HSEQ Operations & Delivery Leader

Sydney CBD

Full-Time - Adaptable Working

National & Regional Leadership Opportunity

SP Data Centres is partnering with a leading global professional services organisation to appoint an experienced HSEQ Operations & Delivery Leader . This confidential opportunity is with a highly respected consultancy operating across complex infrastructure, engineering and major project environments.

This is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving operational excellence across Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ), leading a high-performing regional team while embedding consistent systems, governance and best practice across multiple locations.

The Opportunity The HSEQ Operations & Delivery Leader will operationalise the target operating model (TOM), seeking out opportunities for efficient and equitable service across the time zone. They will manage the common services (e.g. procurement, compliance training, digital systems, management systems and procedures) that support the time zone they work in. The role holder will be pivotal in integrating the HSEQ function, enabling and leading:

- The introduction of common ways of working, driving a consistent approach to HSEQ across the time zone.
- The enhancement of skills, upscaling areas local expertise and capabilities, and identifying areas for growth and development of capability.
- The enhancement of customer experience, actively seek customer feedback. The role will improve the raising of HSEQ standards and quality.
- The provision of specialist and technical HSEQ expertise. The individual will address technical and regulatory queries.

This role incorporates the following tasks and activities:

Leadership

- Have good strategic relationships with all key stakeholders, understanding their drivers, and confidently influence, challenge and engage with them, to present, when necessary, a compelling and credible case for change.
- Foster a culture of innovative thinking, collaboration and continual improvement.
- Proactively create a psychologically protected and inclusive environment to ensure true collaboration and alignment, that encourages open dialogue and diverse perspectives.
- Provide clear direction, support to motivate team members to deliver an excellent service to their customers.
- Efficiently allocate resources and manage workloads to ensure an excellent and equitable service is delivered to customers.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages open dialogue and diverse perspectives.
- Identify individual’s training needs and opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Mentor and coach team members to enhance their skills and career progression.
- Deputise for the Regional HSEQ Leader.

Strategic Direction:




- Translate business strategy into practical HSEQ initiatives.
- Balance regional consistency with local operational requirements.
- Understand operational risk across diverse business activities.
- Support organisational growth through effective HSEQ governance.
- Help develop the Client's external HSEQ offering
- In depth understanding of operational risk profile/context of their time zone against growth ambitions
- Understands the importance of time-zone consistency, balances this with the need for local flexibility and adaptation
- Ability to communicate HSEQ and firm strategic plan into practical actions across all their time zone

Deliver Excellence:
- Business partnering: Partner with the HSEQ Business Partners and Leaders within the time zone, coaching and challenging, to cross-skill and develop, encouraging best practice and consistency. Identify areas for growth and development of capability.
- High Quality: Promote high standards of work. Ensure team have structured, consistent and productive approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard with consideration for the context and stakeholders involved.
- High Quality: Promote high standards of work. Ensure team have structured, consistent and efficient approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard with consideration for the context and stakeholders involved.
- Consistency: Lead the consistency of service across the time zone, introduce standard ways of working and common processes. Actively eliminate unwarranted variance and inconsistency.
- Compliance: Consolidate the compliance management for the time zone, including legal registers, compliance reviews and actions. Address any technical and regulatory queries
- Emergency Preparedness: Lead business continuity, consolidating plans across the time zone. As subject matter expert, advise regional leaders on the preparation of emergency plans and ensure that the routine testing of emergency communication systems, such as Everbridge and International SOS is carried out.
- Data: Promote the importance of data integrity, reliability, accuracy to the team, driving forwards ways to use data to improve our service to the business
- Digital: Manage the administration and support of digital HSEQ systems for the time zone, collaborating closely with other regions and the global leads for Quality,



Assurance and Environmental Management. Advocate continual improvement and enable team to generate solutions to solve and improve processes.
- Training: Manage any regional-specific learning, such as regulated compliance training. This will include the regional administration of HSEQ learning i.e. expiration management.
- Reporting: Commission, lead and review reports for your area of the business. Present insights to leadership and lead discussion on mitigating solutions
- Customer focus: Have a strong customer focus, actively seek customer feedback across the time zone, identifying what could be enhanced and future needs.
- Investigations: Oversee the provision of significant HSEQ investigations. Lead lessons learnt cascades
- Subject Matter Expert: Act as an SME within audits, providing specialist knowledge and expertise as required.
- Adaptability: Demonstrate and role model a positive, growth mindset, embrace new ways of working, willingness to learn new skills to enable flexibility in a dynamic work environment
- Legislation: Understand the legislation complexities across region, ensure requirements are met.

Is this role right for you?

- Degree or similar equivalent high-level qualification in an HSEQ related subject
- Over 10 years of experience in leading or delivering HSEQ outcomes in or around high-hazard industries
- Experience of implementing standards in high-hazard industry
- Experience of creating procedures and implementing standards in ISO accredited organisations
- Strong commercial acumen preferred
- Understanding the professional services environment
- Experience in managing teams remotely is preferred

Whats on offer

- Strategic leadership role within a globally recognised professional services business.
- Sydney CBD location with hybrid working policy and flexible working hours.
- Opportunity to influence HSEQ strategy across a regional portfolio.
- Team-oriented, values-driven culture with strong leadership support.
- Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities.
- Competitive remuneration package.
- Insurances (life & income protection)
- Interest free solar energy and bicycle loans
- Annual leave loading, Birthday leave and ability to purchase additional leave of up to 20 days for permanent employees, as well as generous paid and unpaid parental leave options.

Apply SP Data Centres specialises in recruiting senior Health, Safety, Environment and Quality professionals across Australia and the wider APAC region.

If you're looking for your next leadership opportunity within a complex, high-performing qualified services environment, we'd welcome a confidential discussion.

Apply now or contact SP Data Centres for further information.

📌 HSEQ Operations & Delivery Leader (Sydney)
🏢 SP Data Centres
📍 Sydney