Health, Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner

Job title: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner

Company: PGG Wrightson


Job description: PGG Wrightson Limited (PGW) is a leading provider to the primary sector, offering a wide range of products, services and solutions to growers, farmers, and processors in Aotearoa, New Zealand. As a large employer, PGW recognises the need to provide leadership and industry leading performance in health, safety, and wellbeing.We’re looking for a pragmatic, engaging, and influential Health, Safety and Wellbeing professional to join our Health, Safety and Wellbeing Business Partnering team. We’re well on a journey with a revised strategy and solid progress underway to lift and shift the health, safety and wellbeing performance and mindset of our industry. You’ll be joining a supportive, energising and dedicated team of high performing safety professionals working to build trust, coach and support the business to deliver our HSW programme.Reporting to the Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Business Partner, and working closely with our leaders and frontline team members, you’ll guide and coach our safety journey.Specifically, you will:

• Influence culture and drive change throughout the business with leadership coaching and development of ongoing improvement programmes.
• Have an understanding and belief in applying contemporary thinking and Safety II principals.
• Become known as a trusted and valuable advisor to the business.
• Provide advice and development in line with the group strategy and implementation plans.
• Model behaviours which drive a positive safety culture and help to foster new ways of thinking about health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Provide specialist training, support and challenge the status quo to drive continuous improvement, including incident investigations.
• Positively interact with our wider People and Safety team to continuously improve PGW’s management systems.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have diploma or degree level competency or industry recognition in a related field, or be willing to obtain one.
• Understand the importance of getting alongside our people, speaking their language, and appreciating how their work is done.
• Have leadership and/or business partnering experience, with a background in impacting positive cultural change (ideally within a large and complex business).
• Have experience within the agriculture, logistics industries, or a strong thirst and ability to learn quickly.
• Be experienced in reviewing events to understand root cause and deep learning with remaining true to HOP principles.
• Be an effective communicator – actively listening and translating complex situations into plain language.
• Demonstrate open-mindedness and commitment to lifelong learning.
• Be a team player – using your strengths to work collaboratively towards common goals, but also being self-motivated and results driven.
• Be able travel regularly and provide hands-on support across our nationwide sites.

In return, you’ll be rewarded with this unique opportunity to further your career and contribute to the health, safety, and wellbeing goals of a successful New Zealand company, and the primary sector as a whole.At PGG Wrightson finding the right fit is paramount. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and have natural attributes that will see you excel but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every request in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Expected salary:

Location: Christchurch

Job date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:27:01 GMT

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