Health, Safety and Environmental Specialist
Akaysha EnergyBrisbane, Queensland
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Posted October 23, 2025
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Job Description
The WHSE Specialist is responsible for implementing and overseeing health, safety, and environmental standards across all project phases of large-scale battery storage projects, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous safety improvements through audits, stakeholder collaboration, and process refinement.
Key Responsibilities
- Embed health, safety, and environmental standards across all project phases.
- Oversee contractor and supplier WHSE compliance and lead assurance activities.
- Monitor environmental risks and ensure environmental approval commitments are met.
- Integrate Safe Systems of Work into project delivery and promote Human Organizational Performance.
- Manage WHSE reporting, streamline processes, and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
- Conduct and report on WHSE audits to verify performance and ensure due diligence.
- Manage principal contractor oversight and stakeholder relationships during construction.
Requirements
- Demonstrated strength in safety leadership, with the ability to promote a strong safety culture through proactive behaviours and a visible commitment to WHSE values.
- Hands-on experience in systems development, including the design, implementation, and maintenance of WHSE systems to support consistent compliance across all phases of a project.
- Solid regulatory knowledge, with the capability to interpret and apply WHSE legislation and standards to uphold compliance and maintain a safe working environment.
- Proven expertise in audit and assurance, with experience planning, conducting, and reporting on WHSE audits to verify performance and demonstrate due diligence.
- Strong understanding of principal contractor oversight, with the ability to manage WHSE obligations and stakeholder relationships during construction, ensuring alignment with legal and organisational requirements.
- Proficiency in digital tools, using platforms to manage WHSE data, reporting, and compliance workflows effectively.
- Ability to oversee contractor and supplier WHSE compliance, lead assurance activities to close-out, and monitor performance with escalation of non-compliance.
- Experience in embedding Environmental Management System (EMS) processes into project teams and managing environmental risks in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure environmental approval commitments are met across the project lifecycle.
- Experience in embedding Safe Systems of Work into project delivery, guiding WHSE in design and risk, and promoting Human Organisational Performance (HOP).
- Ability to drive WHSE improvements across project phases by managing reporting and streamlining processes to reduce duplication.
- Willingness to undertake regular, planned travel to sites in Central NSW, Queensland, and Victoria.
- The role requires the ability to work in a hybrid or remote capacity within Australia, with flexibility to be based at Akaysha’s offices in Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary with above-market performance bonuses and long-term incentives
Flexible and hybrid work schedule with remote work options
Centrally located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane
Professional development support including annual development allowance and internal courses
Annual wellbeing allowance
Paid parental leave
Mobile phone allowance
Additional paid time off
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