Safety & Compliance Manager

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Safety & Compliance Manager to join our growing Infrastructure team in Newcastle. 

Reporting to the Managing Director, this role will be responsible for ensuring the goals and objectives of Lycopodium Infrastructure are in alignment with Lycopodium’s relevant certification, legislation, and Client requirements. 

The tasks you'll perform

• Monitor and maintain Lycopodium’s Safety and Compliance performance across all sites.
• Maintain, in conjunction with our management team, the Health and Safety culture across the Company.
• Provide specialist advice and support to project HSE teams as required.
• Provide rail safety consulting services to clients.
• Maintain and confirm the S&C Management Systems and Parent Company requirements in alignment with relevant ISO and AS certification, legislation and Client requirements.
• Plan, manage and coordinate relevant audits and inspections of systems and processes to maintain relevant certification and authorisation.
• Clearly communicate S&C information, issues and initiatives to all parties associated with Projects on a timely basis.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory and authority requirements to enable Lycopodium to work in other chosen industries without restrictions.
• Assist in the preparation of S&C related components of tenders and proposals, including the assessment of Contractor Management Systems and performance.
• Prepare Project S&C Plans incorporating Client requirements, statutory requirements and ongoing corporate learnings and improvements. 

The expertise you'll bring

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in various aspects of Safety and Compliance Management in related industries. 
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of Safety & Compliance systems and management.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints. 
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary. 
• Intuitive leader with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we:

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Provide employees with a variety of additional benefits such as coverage for professional memberships, 18 weeks paid maternity leave + superannuation continuance, discount and rewards programs, and much more.   

Lycopodium is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and maintaining a discrimination free workplace, guided by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Diligence. 

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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