Senior Manager, Safety Health and Wellbeing

Senior Manager, Safety Health and Wellbeing

Five senior leadership opportunities shaping safety, health and wellbeing outcomes across Sydney Water

- Parramatta Square - Hybrid with travel across Sydney Water metropolitan sites as required
- Full time Permanent Positions

At Sydney Water, we're passionate about making a difference to the lives of our customers and communities, and our employees. We have a proud heritage and a progressive future, providing world class drinking water and beautiful waterways from the mountains to the sea. Our people and their jobs are as diverse as the communities we serve.

The Safety, Health and Wellbeing function partners across Sydney Water to strengthen safety risk management, wellbeing, capability and culture. Together these leadership opportunities provide operational partnership, enterprise governance, assurance, specialist expertise and continual improvement across Sydney Water.

Infrastructure Delivery

Responsible for the delivery of Sydney Water's infrastructure and capital works. The role translates enterprise strategy into practical frontline outcomes, strengthens critical risk management, influences leaders and leads teams that support safe operational performance.

Customer Experience

Focused on the experience and services provided to Sydney Water's customers. The role translates enterprise strategy into practical frontline outcomes, strengthens critical risk management, influences leaders and leads teams that support safe operational performance.

Focused on water and environmental services that support Sydney Water's operations and environmental outcomes.



The role translates enterprise strategy into practical frontline outcomes, strengthens critical risk management, influences leaders and leads teams that support safe operational performance.

Centre of Excellence

Provides enterprise-wide governance, assurance, insights and specialist technical expertise. This role provides specialist enterprise-wide leadership across governance, assurance, capability, insights and technical practice, translating psychosocial and occupational hygiene strategy into practical priorities while strengthening operational risk management and supporting consistent standards across Sydney Water.

Systems, Governance and Assurance

Leads the frameworks, controls, assurance and reporting that underpin the enterprise Safety Management System. This role leads the performance and continual improvement of Sydney Water's Safety Management System, strengthening policies, standards, controls, assurance and reporting while ensuring alignment with legislative, regulatory and organisational requirements.

Across these opportunities, you will have:

- Enterprise-wide influence across corporate safety, wellbeing, occupational hygiene and psychosocial risk
- Visible leadership supporting consistent standards and stronger operational risk management
- Opportunity to shape specialist capability,



insights and continual improvement
- Senior leadership influence supporting safe, consistent and accountable performance across Sydney

The roles translate enterprise strategy into practical frontline outcomes, strengthen critical risk management, influence leaders and lead teams that support safe operational performance.

Experience and Qualifications:

- 7-10+ years in safety, health and wellbeing leadership within a large, complex, high-risk environment
- Advanced knowledge of WHS legislation, regulatory compliance, critical risk management, investigation and assurance frameworks
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders to translate strategy into practical plans and measurable outcomes
- Strong analytical capability, using data, metrics and insights to guide decisions and improvement
- Highly developed stakeholder engagement, coaching and people leadership capability
- Investigation training in ICAM, TapRooT or Apollo
- Minimum Diploma of Work Health & Safety or equivalent experience
- Qualifications or certifications in incident investigation, risk management or contractor safety

Required:

- Formal qualification in Work Health & Safety, Risk Management or a related discipline
- Training or certification in ISO 45001 Safety Management Systems, including auditing (Internal or Lead Auditor desirable)
- Qualifications or certifications in incident investigation, risk management or contractor safety

Interview and Assessment Process:

As part of the recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a practical assessment task and attend a panel interview.

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📌 Senior Manager, Safety Health and Wellbeing (Sydney)
🏢 Sydney Water
📍 Sydney