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TAIC is hiring: Senior Adviser - Health, Safety and Wellbeing
Posted 14 April 2025 (Job vacancy closes close at 5pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025).
- Hands on HSW opportunity for an established senior practitioner
- Incredibly interesting subject matter/environment
- Two year fixed term - rare part time opportunity!
The role
Following a strategic system enhancement project, we’re ready to put improvements into action. We’re seeking a Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) expert to drive the next chapter of our HSW programme and bring our refreshed strategy to life. You’ll
- deliver the programme,
- drive meaningful changes and
- ensure all facets of our programme are embedded and compliant.
You’ll apply your expertise across our work. A specific focus includes the safety of our investigations team who operate in hazardous and emotionally challenging environments.
You’ll be our engaging hands-on expert for our HSW programme – you’ll embed change, deliver training programmes, proactively identify risks, ensure compliance, advise, guide and influence – and operate with a continuous improvement mindset.
This is a two year fixed term, part-time role.
Skills and experience
We’re seeking a skilled HSW practitioner who thrives on rolling up their sleeves to run a smart and effective programme, and will be the approachable, trusted voice of HSW in our workplace.
Ideally, you’ll have tertiary qualifications in workplace health and safety, professional membership registration, and HASANZ registration (or working toward it), and coaching/mentoring qualifications and/or experience. We’d love to see mentoring or coaching qualifications or experience too.
In addition, you’ll have:
- at least eight years of practical experience in delivering HSW programmes and initiatives
- contemporary thinking on wellness and psychosocial risk, policy, and strategy development
- the ability to assess complex health and safety issues and make informed decisions
- excellent all round communication, and relationship building abilities
- a strong results orientation
- a high degree of professionalism.
Our work can expose you and the team to traumatic scenes and evidential details, thus strong emotional and psychological maturity is required.
How to apply
If you’re passionate about health, safety and wellbeing and keen to apply your experience and energy to ensure we continue to have a strong, positive HSW culture and practice, then apply now!
For more information and a detailed job description, please contact our recruiters at Talent International:
- Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996
- Nicci McQueen on 027 297 8075
- Seek.co.nz
- jobs.govt.nz
Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025.
The Organisation
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's visionary goal is “No Repeat Accidents – Ever!”. In pursuit of this goal, the Commission (TAIC) inquires into significant transport accidents across the three modes of aviation, rail, and marine, with a view to avoiding similar occurrences in the future.
TAIC's multi-disciplinary teams investigate and analyse the circumstances of these occurrences, supporting the Commission to consider the facts, and make findings and recommendations to improve transport safety, rather than to ascribe blame.
The accident investigation role - general
Accident investigation is specialised and time-critical work that requires broad proven expertise and skill, including:
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written, dealing all social tiers
- Logical and analytical capability, with very strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Anticipate risk and identify mitigations
- Problem solving
- Project teamwork
- Relationship management
- Energy, diplomacy and tact.
The Accident Investigators team is small and close-knit. investigators attend accident sites throughout New Zealand and undertake thorough site examinations and evidence collection, review, research, and analyse the evidence, before drafting inquiry reports, findings and recommendations for consideration by the Commission. Each investigation process leads to a detailed final report report outlining the findings and safety recommendations to the sector.
Accident investigation work is be interesting and varied, involves a wide range of vehicles and technology, requires engagement with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. investigators need an agile mindset, to be able to work collaboratively and positively with like-minded professionals, and have high levels of diplomacy, tact, and professionalism, particularly when deployed to accident sites.
It can be demanding work that necessitates medical and physical fitness (accident sites can be anywhere) and resilience in stressful and emotionally difficult circumstances.
While relevant investigative qualifications are desirable, the successful candidate will undergo extensive, world class specialised training in accident investigation. This is part of TAIC's supportive and development-focused environment. A typical job description for a Transport Accident Investigation Commission Investigator is available at right in the Document Downloads box.
Investigator positions are based in Wellington, New Zealand, and involve travel and overnight stays.
Only people with the right to work in New Zealand may apply. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz.