Head of Health and Safety

Ready to build a better future with us?

At Kapitol Group, we pride ourselves on being Victoria's second largest privately owned construction company .

Our vision is to continuously improve the construction industry by setting new standards for quality, safety, culture and work-life balance.

We’re a team of high performing professionals obsessed with innovation and excellence in construction. Our work spans the commercial, education, industrial, and residential sectors.

With a healthy and growing pipeline of work, we are looking for an experienced and proven Head of Safety to contribute to our HSE operations, strategies, coaching, and overall continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Lead and work with our Safety Managers and the broader Safety team
• Develop and execute evolving safety strategies that align with our values
• Promote a strong safety culture throughout the organisation
• Stay updated on safety regulations, codes of practice, and industry standards, ensuring our company's compliance with all applicable legislation
• Ensure risk assessments and hazard identification processes proactively identify and mitigate safety risks.
• Oversee the quality of safety training programs, ensuring that all employees and subcontractors are adequately trained in safety expectations, systems, and procedures
• Collaborate with the ESG and qualitys team to ensure strategies are aligned
• Provide expertise and advice on legislative and regulatory matters pertaining to WHS
• Manage stakeholder relationships and issues raised by regulatory bodies, clients and suppliers
• Ensure conformance for Safety Plans per project team by way of observations and inspections
• Be an active member of the Leadership team, and an active leader to your own team
• Steer continuous improvement programs and initiatives
• Ensure effective handling of incident management, investigations, and reporting
• Contribute to environmental management and monitoring
• Steer client engagement and reporting requirements
• Involvement with tender submissions, providing WHS advice as required
  
  

About You

• Genuine passion for Health and Safety
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in WHS or equivalent (Degree or Diploma)
• Current White Card
• 10+ years' experience in construction related safety roles
• Background of leading medium-to-large scale WHS team operations
• Capacity to implement strategic plans and continuous improvement
• Thorough understanding of relevant regulations and standards
• Proven experience with conducting WHS assurance activities such as audits
• Understanding of OFSC requirements
• Advanced working knowledge of Hammertech (or equivalent system)
• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, attention to detail, influencing, presentation, interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly motivated with a ‘can do’ attitude
  
  

How You'll Benefit

• 5-day work week (exception of Site Managers/Supervisors who work 10 days in 14, with every other Saturday off)
• Investment in training with the aim to have the best trained workforce in the industry
• Free health assessments for all staff
• Paid parental leave for both primary and secondary care givers
• Fast-tracked career development opportunities and support our staff through mentoring, workshops and retreats
• Industry-leading internal communication channels to break down silos across sites, allowing staff to share ideas, lessons learnt and other resources.
  
  

Kapitol value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, life stages, cultures, faiths, sexual orientation, and genders.

Find out more about Kapitol Group on our website (kapitolgroup.com.au) – and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for regular updates.

Please be sure to apply directly as we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies, nor any agency-represented candidates for this role. Kapitol will not be held responsible for any associated fees from recruitment agencies resulting from unsolicited introductions.