Health & Safety Advisor
Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
At Contact, we believe safety is more than a checklist. It’s about people, relationships, and making sure everyone gets home safe, healthy, and happy every day!
You’ll be the bridge between how work is imagined and how it’s actually done. Your days will be spent where the action happens... listening, learning, and supporting our people to do their best work safely. Here’s a few things we think will help you get more of a feel for the role:
- Exploring Everyday Work: Get curious at the work fronts, understanding what helps teams succeed and what gets in their way.
- Supporting Work Practices: Cooperate with front-line teams to create safe, dependable ways of working.
- Predicting and Preventing Risks: Work with teams to identify future challenges and areas of uncertainty.
- Facilitating Learning: Help individuals, teams, and the wider system learn from both everyday work and unexpected events.
- Championing Process Safety: Encourage a questioning attitude about what could go wrong and how we can prevent it.
- Ensuring Compliance: Support alignment with Contact’s H&S policies and management systems and help teams meet legislative requirements.
Qualifications
Ko wai koe | About You
You care deeply about people and are driven to help them thrive. You’re a lifelong learner, a relationship builder, and someone who’s not afraid to ask “why?”, even when everything looks good on the surface.
You’ll thrive in this role if you have:
- Experience in Health and Safety within an industrial environment.
- Experience managing project and contractor health and safety.
- High interpersonal capability—able to build trust and effective relationships at all levels.
- Skilled facilitation and communication, both verbal and written.
- Confidence to influence and engage groups and deliver H&S education.
- Integrity and high personal and professional standards.
- A humanistic, people-first approach to safety.
- The ability to empower others to challenge what doesn’t feel right and own safety at the work front.
- A collaborative spirit—ready to work closely with our Health & Safety and Generation teams.
Additional Information
This role would be preferably based in Christchurch and you will need to travel between our hydro power stations across the breadth and width of the South Island.
Contact is not a place you’ll stagnate. We are growing and offer superb learning and development opportunities along with a bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover, boosted KiwiSaver, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, twice yearly payments towards our products if you’re a Contact customer, and more!
Applications close on Sunday 8th March, but just like peak demand, great talent surges early — so if this role sparks your interest, power up your application now!
Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko), we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.
We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.
Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.
The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.
We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing – including flexible working arrangements, employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.
At Te Mata Hiko, we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age, stage, background, and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.
Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.
Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.
Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.