Senior WHS Consultant – Safety & Prevention

Senior WHS Consultant – Safety & Prevention

Senior Associate, People Risk

About Howden

We are part of the Howden Broking Group, the world's largest privately owned insurance broker, headquartered in London. Since launching Howden in the Pacific region in March 2021, we have grown from a team of three to over 600 employees across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

Our mantra is to be People First. We believe you can teach someone new skills, but not how to be a different person. We offer a chance to join a rapidly growing business at an exciting time, with a genuinely collegiate culture and highly engaged team.

The opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced safety and prevention professional to join our People Risk – Safety & Prevention team as a Senior Associate, based in Sydney. You’ll manage your own portfolio of clients and lead safety, prevention and risk-management engagements end to end, from board and executive advisory through to hands-on delivery. This will be across a wide range of industries and workplaces throughout the Pacific.

It’s a role with real breadth: no two clients (or weeks) look the same, and you’ll be trusted to make an impact from day one.

What you’ll do

• Own a portfolio of clients, coordinating their safety, prevention and risk-management needs end to end.
• Lead engagements from scoping through to delivery, keeping projects on scope, time and budget.
• Partner with senior stakeholders and lead working groups to achieve project milestones.
• Facilitate workshops and briefings for boards, executives, leaders and frontline teams.
• Advise on WHS/OHS obligations, psychosocial risk and injury prevention, translating complex requirements into practical, defensible solutions.
• Prepare and present proposals and scopes of work, and help grow the practice through strong client relationships.
• Produce written and verbal advice that is technically accurate, timely and genuinely useful.
• Mentor and support our Associates and Trainees, and contribute to the tools and IP that shape our advisory offer.

During your first six to twelve months you’ll start by getting to know your portfolio and our methodologies, working alongside senior colleagues on board and executive engagements before taking the lead on your own. Within your first year, we’d expect you to be independently running engagements, trusted by your clients, and contributing to new work.

From there, the pathway to Partner is clear for those who want it, with genuine mentoring, support and the opportunity to help build a growing national practice.

Let’s talk about you

To help Australia’s leading organisations prevent harm and build safer, healthier, more resilient workplaces, as part of one of the fastest-growing broking groups in the Pacific you’ll need the below experience and skill set:

• 5+ years’ experience in a safety/WHS or closely related role (with equivalent capability).
• Strong working knowledge of Australian WHS/OHS legislation, along with Codes of Practice, compliance codes and regulator guidance, including current psychosocial obligations.
• A sound understanding of risk-management principles applied to WHS/OHS hazards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and adapt your style from the boardroom to the shop floor.
• Experience delivering in a billable consulting (or comparable client-facing) environment, managing multiple projects at once.
• Confidence with data and analytics to turn information into insight (including Excel).
• Tertiary qualifications in work health and safety, allied health, law or a related field.
• A current driver’s licence and willingness to travel intra/interstate and occasionally overnight.

The below skills, experience and training is not a must have but will assist in this role:

• Experience mentoring or leading others, and contributing to business development.
• Psychosocial risk experience and familiarity with ISO 45003.
• ISO 45001 Lead Auditor / Exemplar Global accreditation.
• ICAM or other incident-investigation training.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., AIHS) and demonstrated CPD.

Remuneration and benefits

In addition to competitive remuneration, we offer free salary continuance insurance, accessing to Novated Leasing and our industry-leading bonus leave benefit, where employees can qualify for up to two weeks' additional paid leave each year.

What’s next?

If this role sounds like you, send your resume and a short summary through the ‘Apply’ button above and to find our more information about us visit our website.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to our HR Business Partner, Hayley Diamond at Sign in to view email.

EEO Statement

We wish to provide a supportive and welcoming workplace environment, which represents the communities and cultures within which we live and work. We have a huge diversity of talent from all walks of life, each with unique experiences and perspectives, all of whom can make a difference. Howden Pacific strives to build an inclusive workplace where our people feel welcome to bring their whole and true self to work, where differences are accepted and where our words and actions are inclusive.