- Lead safety and wellbeing strategy across KFC SOPAC
- Influence company and franchise operations across a large restaurant network
- Build a culture of care, accountability, learning and proactive risk management

At KFC, everyone has a seat at our table. We feed our people’s potential to make a difference and have fun along the way.

As our Head of Safety, you’ll report directly to the People Director and lead KFC SOPAC’s safety and wellbeing strategy, governance and operating framework across company and franchise operations.

You’ll lead the National Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner and Safety Operational Risk Advisor, partnering with operational leaders, franchisees and People Leadership Team colleagues to strengthen safety culture, prevent harm and embed practical, sustainable and legally compliant practices.

This is a highly influential role with the opportunity to shape restaurant practices, equipment and process design, leadership behaviour and investment priorities—helping protect our team members, contractors, customers and communities while strengthening organisational resilience.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Set the safety and wellbeing agenda

- Lead KFC SOPAC’s safety and wellbeing strategy, roadmap and operating plan.
- Build a culture of care, accountability, learning and proactive risk management.
- Advise senior leaders on material risks, regulatory developments and required action.

Strengthen governance and systems

- Own and continuously improve the safety management system, standards and governance.
- Set clear accountabilities, controls and escalation processes across company and franchise operations.
- Provide transparent executive reporting on performance,



critical risks, actions and trends.

Manage operational risk and critical controls

- Lead the management of material operational safety risks across restaurants and support environments.
- Oversee critical controls for high-consequence risks, including equipment, manual tasks, hazardous substances, vehicles and contractors.
- Partner across the business to embed safety into equipment, processes, operational changes and projects.

Turn incidents into learning

- Oversee significant incident response, investigation, regulatory engagement and corrective action.
- Ensure investigations address systemic causes and deliver practical, owned and time-bound actions.
- Use trends, repeat events and weak signals to strengthen prevention and controls.

Champion wellbeing and psychosocial safety

- Lead KFC SOPAC’s worker wellbeing and psychosocial safety approach with People, Operations and specialist providers.
- Ensure psychosocial hazards are managed through effective controls, consultation and leader capability.
- Embed early intervention, confidentiality and wellbeing considerations into workforce and operating decisions.

Drive assurance and compliance

- Lead a risk-based assurance program that tests safety controls and management-system effectiveness.




- Monitor legal and internal compliance and drive timely closure of gaps.
- Manage engagement with regulators, advisers, insurers, auditors and specialists, supported by defensible documentation.

Build trusted partnerships

- Partner with franchisees and operational leaders to build consistent safety capability and expectations.
- Provide practical frameworks, insights and tools that help leaders meet their responsibilities.
- Represent Safety across executive, operational and project forums so risks are considered early.

Lead and inspire

- Lead, coach and develop the National Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner and Safety Operational Risk Advisor.
- Build a high-accountability team culture grounded in technical rigour, practical problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Set clear outcomes and decision rights while empowering the team to make a visible impact.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

You’re a credible and pragmatic safety leader who can combine deep technical expertise with commercial judgement, calm leadership and a genuine commitment to people.

You’ll ideally bring:

- Significant senior leadership experience in workplace health and safety, operational risk or wellbeing within a large, complex and multi-site organisation.
- Deep knowledge of Australian workplace health and safety legislation, regulatory expectations and incident requirements.
- Experience developing enterprise safety strategy, governance and management systems, ideally aligned with standards such as ISO 45001.
- Solid capability in operational risk, critical controls, incident investigation, root-cause analys

📌 Head of Safety (Sydney)
🏢 KFC South Pacific (Yum! Brands Subsidiary)
📍 Sydney