Safety and Training Officer

The Opportunity


With a strong pipeline of recently awarded work across South East Queensland, this specialist water infrastructure contractor is expanding its Queensland operations team.

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Health and Safety Advisor to support multiple concurrent water infrastructure projects, ensuring safe, compliant and high-quality delivery across all field operations. Reporting to the Managing Director, you will be out on the tools with the crews, delivering training, coaching behaviours and driving safety outcomes from the ground up across sites stretching from the Gold Coast through Brisbane and as far west as Toowoomba.

This is not a desk-based role. You will be the visible face of safety across the business, spending the majority of your time in the field engaging directly with site crews, supervisors and subcontractors. A key focus will be taking full ownership of the training register, maintaining a comprehensive register of certifications and licences across all personnel, keeping policies and procedures current, and ensuring the business stays ahead of its legislative obligations. If you thrive in fast-paced environments where initiative, organisation and genuine people skills are critical, this is a role where you can make a real difference.

Ideally you will be based on the southside of Brisbane, given the geographic spread of project sites across SE Queensland.

About the Organisation


This contractor specialises in remediation work across water reservoirs, concrete and steel structures, and complex infrastructure involving a variety of materials and asset types. With a long history delivering structural remediation, maintenance and capital works across potable and wastewater networks, the business is well-established within the utilities sector. Supported by strong client relationships and a growing pipeline of newly awarded projects, they offer long-term stability, a hands-on team culture and meaningful opportunities for development across their expanding Queensland operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on, on-site training to personnel across multiple crews and project locations spanning the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Toowoomba
• Take full ownership of the training register, tracking and managing all training completions, scheduled renewals and competency requirements across the entire workforce
• Maintain a comprehensive register of certifications and licences for all personnel, ensuring nothing lapses and proactively coordinating renewals ahead of expiry
• Manage safety systems and ensure compliance across active project sites
• Develop, update and maintain HSE policies, procedures and supporting documentation to reflect current legislation and best practice
• Monitor legislative changes and proactively communicate the business’s obligations to leadership and site teams, including areas such as sexual harassment prevention, psychosocial hazards and occupational exposure limits for hazardous substances such as silica and hazardous gases
• Conduct toolbox talks, safety audits and field assessments across multiple concurrent sites
• Assess personnel to identify HSE knowledge gaps and implement targeted training programs
• Support the rollout of a modularised training program to upskill and enhance HSE capability across the business
• Support high-risk activities including confined space entry and working at heights
• Maintain safety documentation and reporting systems including SiteDocs, SharePoint and the MS Office Suite
• Facilitate incident investigations and close out corrective actions
• Coach, mentor and influence positive safety behaviours on site

What You Will Bring

• Based on the southside of Brisbane with a willingness to travel regularly across SE Queensland including the Gold Coast and Toowoomba
• Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety at minimum, with a Diploma in WHS highly regarded
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, or demonstrated experience delivering hands-on workplace training to field-based workforces
• Experience within high-risk construction, utilities or infrastructure environments
• Solid understanding of Queensland WHS legislation, codes of practice and the ability to interpret and communicate legislative updates across the business
• Demonstrated experience building, owning and maintaining training registers and certification and licence registers across a field-based workforce
• Ability to take ownership of HSE system development, including building out and improving the existing policy and procedure framework
• Capability to manage and maintain the HSE equipment register and all PPE requirements for personnel
• Strong documentation, systems and reporting capability
• Confident communicator with the ability to engage and build genuine rapport with field teams at all levels
• Current Confined Space, Working at Heights and First Aid/CPR tickets preferred
• A proactive, self-managing professional who gets things done without needing to be directed

Why Apply?

• Genuinely hands-on role where you will be out on site making a real difference every day
• Full ownership of the HSE training function including training delivery, register management and certification tracking
• Broad exposure across remediation, maintenance and capital projects across SE Queensland
• Opportunity to shape training programs, update policies and influence safety culture from the ground up
• Company vehicle and tools of trade provided
• Long-term project pipeline and real development opportunities
• Hands-on role where you can make a meaningful difference to how people go home safely every day

How to Apply

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