HSE Advisor

About the Company

Iberdrola Australia is leading Australia’s transition to a clean energy future. With over 170 years history, the Iberdrola Group today is a global energy leader. Their expertise includes renewable energy, networks, smart grids, large-scale energy storage, energy innovation and digitisation, and advanced customer products.

Their generation portfolio is more than 95% renewable and includes 9 wind farms, 3 solar farms, 2 grid scale batteries and 2 fast-start peakers and continuing to evolve, investing in new capabilities in networks, green hydrogen and offshore wind. Iberdrola’s financial strength, supply chain access and history of award-winning expertise, will make Iberdrola a certain partner to accelerate Australia’s Net Zero emissions future.

Iberdrola is now recruiting for an experienced construction HSE Advisor for a 12 – 18-month contract, responsible for overseeing the construction on a new BESS project outside of Adelaide.

This is an opportunity to shape your career with one of the genuine global energy leaders within Australia.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior HSE Manager Project Delivery, this role will be the on-site health, safety and environmental representative, ensuring Iberdrola’s obligations, project governance requirements and environmental commitments are upheld throughout project delivery.

Some specific responsibilities include:

· Provide client-side HSE leadership across all construction and commissioning activities, ensuring compliance with Iberdrola Australia’s HSE policies, WHS legislation, and environmental approvals.

· Deliver independent assurance of the Principal Contractor’s WHS systems, including verification of critical controls, safe work practices, and competency of personnel.

· Monitor and support management of multi-party interfaces, including OEMs, HV contractors, environmental consultants, landowners, and grid connection partners.

· Provide assurance of contractor processes for incident response, investigation, and reporting, ensuring timely communication with Iberdrola Australia’s leadership and regulatory bodies.

· Assurance of contractor processes for compliance with environmental and cultural heritage requirements, ensuring protection of land, biodiversity, and community interests.

· Champion Iberdrola’s safety culture, promoting proactive risk management, open communication, and continuous improvement across all site teams.

· Provide daily HSE insights to the Project Manager and broader delivery team, ensuring emerging risks, trends, and opportunities are clearly understood.

· Ensure contractor alignment with Iberdrola’s ESG commitments, sustainability expectations, and long-term operational safety requirements.


About You

To be successful in this role you will have relevant HSE qualifications and strong site and project-based experience on large infrastructure construction projects, ideally in renewables or similar.

Your excellent interpersonal skills allow you to build effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, resulting in exceptional performance.

You will be able to fully commit to a 12 – 18-month contract working Monday – Friday in both office and site environments in Adelaide.

This is an Adelaide based role. No relocation, FIFO, accommodation or travel allowances apply.


The Benefits

This is an exceptional career opportunity to join a world leader in renewable energy and work on the construction of a new BESS project alongside a globally experienced team. An attractive hourly rate is on offer to an exceptional candidate.



Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Donna Ison on +61 0417718763, quoting reference JN -072026-43929. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com