Prysmian Group

About Us

Prysmian Group is a global leader in the manufacturing of energy and telecom cable. We are committed to creating a safer, more sustainable future through innovative solutions and a strong focus on health, safety, and environmental standards.

Role Overview

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Oceania HSE Manager to join our team. This role is pivotal in driving the continual improvement of our HSE management culture, standards, systems, and compliance across our operations in Australia and New Zealand. The successful candidate will provide hands-on leadership, strategic direction, and ensure all legal and other requirements are met.

Key Responsibilities

HSE Systems and Processes:

• Build, implement, monitor and continually improve Prysmian’s health, safety, and environment management reporting, standards, policies, procedures, and tools in line with statutory, regulatory, customer compliance and industry-relevant practices. This includes facilitating the Prysmian HSE governance forum, conducting site progress audits, and providing updates as required to the Site Management Team Group.
• Support Special Situations incidents by providing HSE related insights and advice, and ensuring where relevant investigation of incidents, closure of resultant actions and sharing of learnings.
• Integrate new business acquisition into Prysmian including Critical risk, IT, Lag and Lead Scorecard and Compliance register.
• Lead implementation of HQ new HSE Management System software.
• Contractor management implementation completion and continual improvement.
• Lone-worker implementation completion and continual improvement.
• Ensure ISO50001 internal audit and action plans completed for all sites.
• Prepare for ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 2025 re-certification audits across Oceania in 2026.
• Cultivate a workplace safety culture across all levels of the Prysmian business through coaching, training, and leadership.

Compliance: Ensure compliance with the Oceania compliance register and integrate new business acquisition compliance register.

Workers Compensation and Injury Management: Manage workers' compensation claims, provide premium projections, and ensure effective injury management systems.

Leadership:

• Provide leadership, support and strategic direction to the business unit HSE team to ensure the team supports the organisation in the achievement of its HSE objectives. Support to include assessing and provide relevant training.
• Keep abreast of industry trends on HSE regulation, ensuring proactive business planning to these requirements.
• Ensure sites are escalating and managing incidents within specific time frames.

Requirements

• Skills and Competencies: Strong understanding of legislation, strategic and change management, analytical and systems auditing skills, stakeholder management, and leadership.
• Experience: 10+ years in HSE, preferably in high-risk industries or FMCG manufacturing, with a proven track record of improving safety culture.
• Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health & Safety or a relevant discipline. HSE Auditing Certificate preferred.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry.
• Work in a dynamic and supportive environment.
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on our HSE culture and practices.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

How to Apply

If you are passionate about health, safety, and environment management and meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter below.

Prysmian , as an Equal Opportunity Employer, aims to attract and recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills, and abilities. We strongly believe that diversity brings significant value at all levels of the organization, increasing the possibility of capturing market opportunities and maximizing value for our customers and stakeholders. With Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) as part of our Social Ambition 2030 and a strategic pillar of our Company culture, Prysmian is committed to the development of an organization that prioritizes talent, where people feel respected, included, and free to fully express their potential just as they are.

All Managers and HRs in Prysmian are responsible for ensuring DE&I policies are respected during the recruiting process, as well as recognizing and mitigating unconscious biases that must not influence our selection processes. All persons will be considered for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, origin, citizenship status, socio-economic status, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, parental leave, medical conditions, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Prysmian will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation for any disclosed physical or neurological condition or disability of a qualified applicant unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Visit our DE&I Page to learn more about Prysmian's commitments.

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