Senior Health and Hygiene Advisor – – 48369

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Santos

About Us

Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.

Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.

At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.

Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.

For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.

Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure. 

The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.

Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.

About the Role

Located at our Brisbane headquarters, this role is dedicated to strategically managing occupational health and hygiene risks across both national and international sites. The position is responsible for creating and implementing tailored standards, programs, and technical guidance, as well as enhancing organisational capability through collaboration and coaching to ensure effective and high-level OHS strategies.

Key accountabilities include:  

  • Ensuring compliance with company standards, procedures, and local legislative requirements related to occupational health and hygiene.
  • Oversee the process and outcomes of occupational exposure assessments.
  • Influence operational leaders and HSER managers to implement risk controls based on occupational hygiene assessments.
  • Supporting the BU in developing and implementing monitoring and sampling plans.
  • Build organisational capability in occupational health and hygiene risk management through coaching HSER teams and operational leaders.
  • Develop and maintain competency requirements and training to manage occupational health and hygiene risks on the frontline.
  • Support the investigation of workplace exposure standard exceedances and other occupational health and hygiene incidents and illnesses.
  • Manage providers to ensure services meet required standards and comply with contractual and legislative obligations.

About You

You should have a thorough understanding of Australian OHS legislative compliance standards and be an adaptable, innovative thinker with a results-oriented approach. Strong interpersonal skills are essential, enabling you to mentor and collaborate with senior stakeholders and lead investigations. Your ability to proactively work autonomously, along with your resilience and eagerness to learn, will be crucial to your success in this role.

To be considered for this position, candidates must possess one of the following qualifications:

  • Degree or equivalent in Occupational Hygiene, Science, Engineering, Allied Health, or OHS & Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH)

Experience in incident investigations using methodologies such as Taproot, ICAM, or similar will be highly regarded. 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce 

Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.  

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.  

Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.  

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 27th of November 2024.  

A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply

Potential Scams

There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place.  You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is  https://recruitment.santos.com/

To apply for this job please visit recruitment.santos.com.