Cathara Consulting are seeking a WHS Projects & Assurance Advisor to design, implement and verify Work Health and Safety (WHS) improvement, critical risk, assurance, contractor management and project safety programs.

This position will be critical in providing specialist advice to strengthen safety systems, confirm control effectiveness and embed WHS requirements into projects and business improvement initiatives.

Key responsibilities

- Lead WHS initiatives and strengthen critical risk management through practical, standardised safety systems, tools and assurance methods.
- Lead Critical Control Assurance (CCA) and Critical Control Verification (CCV) programs; plan and conduct critical control, permit-to-work (PTW), governance and contractor reviews to independently verify effectiveness and identify systemic improvements.
- Provide WHS assurance for capital projects, outages and contractor works; review project and safety-in-design risks and integrate WHS into Project Management Office (PMO) governance, commissioning and handover.
- Maintain and improve the Contractor Management Framework; verify compliance and risk controls, and support prequalification, tender evaluation and governance.
- Facilitate risk assessments and workshops, provide specialist safety advice, and support major investigations through systemic analysis, assurance and organisational learning.





About you

- Tertiary qualifications in Work Health and Safety, Risk Management, Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline.
- Experience with critical risk or control management, BowTie, ICMM Critical Control Management, ICAM, TapRooT® or similar methods.
- Experience in power generation, utilities, heavy industry, construction or other high-risk operations.
- Experience in project assurance, safety in design, commissioning or contractor management systems.

Why Join Cathara

At Cathara, we partner closely with our clients to solve complex business challenges and deliver practical outcomes. Our consultants work directly with executive leadership teams on some of the most important transformation initiatives across Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

We offer:

- Opportunity to lead meaningful transformation programs
- Exposure to senior client stakeholders and strategic initiatives
- Flexible and collaborative working environment
- Solid pipeline of transformation and advisory work

This is an opportunity to support a transformation program and help improve critical risk contractor management and project safety programs, if this sounds like an opportunity of interest we would love to hear from you.

📌 WHS Improvement, Assurance & Projects Advisor (Darwin)
🏢 Cathara Consulting
📍 Darwin