Work Health and Safety Consultant

Job Description

Location: Flexible (within Australia) 

Type: Permanent, full time position

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.

Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

The opportunity

QBE Insurance is proud to support the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees and are seeking a new Work Health and Safety (WHS) Consultant to join the team on a permanent basis. In this important role, you will:

• Maintain WHS incident reports and management systems, and use Insight to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, industry codes and company policies
• Manage our health and safety offerings, working with external third parties as required to strengthen and support this
• Nurture strong working relationships between the WHS team and the broader business, advocating for a safety-first culture and achieving buy in to initiatives
• Fulfil administrative requirements of a high-compliance role, including reporting and board papers

Your story so far

This is a highly rewarding role with a broad scope for success. Combining your prior WHS knowledge and experience (ideally from a corporate environment) along with your commercial savviness and influencing skills, you will achieve positive results which impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of our people. You will have a strong program management skillset with a self-starting autonomy, harnessing your sense of innovation and strategic thinking to fulfil program requirements whilst also identifying opportunities for improvement.

Critically important to your success in this position are your stakeholder/relationship management skills. You have an innate ability to engage with and influence stakeholders across the business and nurture strong working relationships. Your energy and personalism means you can influence and achieve buy in from others which lead to successful outcomes for our people and the business.

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at Our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Gold Employer status for 2019-2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family Friendly Accredited since 2021

Join us.

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE takes a risk and compliance approach to COVID-19 vaccination and strongly encourages our employees to be vaccinated. Some roles require COVID-19 vaccination to perform the role. When relevant we will ask you to share your vaccination status as part of the application process. We won’t be able to progress with applications where candidates choose not to disclose their status for roles that require vaccination in line with our risk and compliance approach.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com.