SHE Manager, Food & Liquor (NSW/ACT/NZ)

Joining the Metcash Family 

At Metcash, you’re part of something bigger. You have all the perks of a small business heart, without missing out on the big business support. 
Being part of something bigger means you’re part of a strong purpose, where the work you do makes a big difference to independent business and local communities. It opens a sea of opportunities to develop yourself, grow your career, thrive your way and make your mark. And you’ll be part of our high performing team, where you reap the rewards of our collective success now and into the future. 

About the Opportunity 

The Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Manager will provide strategic leadership and operational support to the Food and Liquor business units across New South Wales, ACT and some New Zealand sites. 
In this role, you will proactively drive the implementation of Metcash’s SHE Strategy, ensuring the alignment of practices with legislative requirements. The role requires a strong commitment to driving a safety-first culture and supporting Metcash’s long-term SHE objectives.

In this Role 

• Provide SHE & Injury Management Support: Advise senior management and business pillars on SHE programs, policies, processes, and injury management strategies.
• Implement Metcash SHE Strategy: Support the development and local coordination of the Metcash SHE Strategy, focusing on safety, health, wellbeing, and environmental initiatives.
• Drive Safety Culture: Ensure the effective implementation of SHE processes at the site level, promoting ‘Safety as a Core Value’ within the organization.
• Workers Compensation & Injury Management: Collaborate with the National Injury Management Advisor to manage workers' compensation claims, upskill return-to-work coordinators, and oversee the rehabilitation process for injured employees.
• Manage SHE Risks & Build Capability: Proactively manage safety, health, and environmental risks, coach others on risk management, and deliver necessary training based on annual needs analysis.
• Promote Safety Leadership & Accountability: Encourage leadership to implement key performance indicators for Safety Observation Tours, reinforcing safe behavior and contributing to a safety-focused culture.
• Incident Reporting & Hazard Management: Foster hazard identification, near-miss reporting, and incident investigations, ensuring a consistent and thorough approach to reduce injuries and improve safety outcomes.
• Reporting, Audits & Stakeholder Engagement: Provide accurate reporting to stakeholders, liaise with regulators on incident notifications, and conduct audits to ensure compliance with SHE management systems, driving continuous improvement.

You’re Likely a Match If     

• Minimum 5 years’ leadership experience in operational safety, health and environmental roles, preferably in FMCG, warehousing, distribution and supply chain.
• Tertiary qualifications in SHE or a related discipline
• Certification in ICAM Lead Investigator and SHE Lead Auditor 
• Proven ability to work effectively with line management to build capability and safety leadership
• Solutions provider, innovator thinker
• Proven capability in Injury/Claims Management  (Return to Work Coordinator Certification is highly regarded)

Life at Metcash 

🌈 Experience a supportive and flexible work environment. We are a FlexReady accredited workplace!
🌟 Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave every year after your first year.
🌿 Benefit from 2 well-being days and 1 volunteer day annually.
🌐 An abundance of learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
💼 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave for primary carers.
🏆 Proudly awarded “Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion”.
🌍 Recognised as 45th in the global "Equileap Top 100" for initiatives on gender equity.
⚖️A neutral gender pay gap of under 5% as published by WGEA 2022- 2023
🥇 Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia.
💸 Incredible value discounts and perks through our team member app, “Our Local”. 

About Us 

Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with revenue exceeding $18 billion in FY23. We’re also an ASX top 100 listed company.
We believe that it is absolutely vital to Australia that there is a sustainable, independent, family-owned business sector. Independent retailers support their local communities. We help them to be the ‘Best Store in Their Town’ by providing merchandising, operational and marketing support across our food, liquor and hardware pillars.
We're dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Joining our team means becoming part of something bigger, a company that actively promotes diversity, champions charitable causes, and supports environmental efforts. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including First Nations. If you have any specific support or access needs, please don't hesitate to inform us when you apply. Rest assured; your personal information will be handled with the utmost confidentiality in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

Join us and be part of something bigger!

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