Title:  GM HSEQ

About AusNet

At AusNet, you’ll join passionate people working together, to bring the energy today, and build a cleaner tomorrow.

As an essential service provider to all Victorians, we play a key role in building a cleaner tomorrow while connecting communities with reliable, affordable and sustainable energy.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

About the Role

This key role will provide strategic oversight, governance, and leadership to ensure compliance with regulations, while continuously improving performance and risk management frameworks across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement AusNet’s HSEQ and compliance strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and industry best practices.
• Champion a proactive HSEQ culture, engaging leadership teams, employees, and contractors to drive performance and accountability.
• Act as a catalyst for change, influencing leaders and employees to adopt and sustain HSEQ improvements.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, environmental, and quality regulations, liaising with regulatory bodies as required.
• Drive the utilization of technology and data to improve safety practices and risk management.
• Oversee the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks across operations, incorporating the Unmitigated Risk Management (URM) methodology to ensure proactive hazard control.
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust compliance frameworks to ensure adherence to internal policies, industry regulations, and legal requirements.
• Establish and maintain HSEQ performance metrics, conducting regular audits and reviews to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead / Coach the business to lead investigations into significant HSEQ incidents, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions are implemented.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including government agencies, industry groups, and regulatory bodies, to enhance HSEQ outcomes.
• Oversee the development and implementation of HSEQ training programs to ensure employees and contractors are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills.
• Lead initiatives to enhance the HSEQ capability within the team, ensuring they have the necessary skills and expertise to drive improvements.
• Foster and embed a strong Safety leadership culture throughout the organisation, ensuring it is a core value in all operations and decision-making processes. Provide leadership for delivery partner contracts and strategic partnerships, ensuring service, safety, and standards are met while achieving cost savings and fostering long-term, effective relationships.

About You:

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience in a senior HSEQ or a senior operational leadership role within the energy sector or a high-risk industry.
• Proven track record of developing and embedding a strong HSEQ culture within a large and complex organization.
• Experience in risk management, incident investigation, and performance measurement, with expertise in URM methodology preferred.
• Experience in compliance management, including regulatory reporting and governance frameworks.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with a demonstrated ability to influence change.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence and drive change.

You are a passionate HSEQ advocate, have excellent leadership influencing & stakeholder engagement skills, able to communicate across a broad internal and external audience.

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply now!

Emergency Response: Customers and community are at the heart of everything we do.  From time-to-time you may be called upon to support an emergency response (e.g. storms, bushfires, floods) to ensure we continue to safely deliver our customers’ energy needs.

Why AusNet: A real place to belong. 

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.  

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

 As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead. So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward!