HSE Business Partner

The Safe Step ·www.thesafestep.com.au

Location Perth, WA, Australia
Type Full time
Level Mid
Source Shazamme
Safety Leadership, Culture and Strategy
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Wilson Group is undergoing a significant transformation across Health, Safety & Wellbeing, backed by strong executive and CEO support and a genuine commitment to uplifting safety capability, accountability and operational partnership across the business.

This is a highly visible HSE Business Partner opportunity supporting operations across WA, SA and NT within complex, high-risk frontline environments. In addition to appropriate incident response[NF1] , the role requires proactive, commercially aligned business partnering— building trusted advisor relationships with leaders and helping operations embed safety ownership into the way they work.

We are looking for someone who can influence, coach and partner with leaders and lead a team.

About Wilson Group
Wilson Group employs approximately 10,000 people across Australia and New Zealand and operates across security, healthcare, parking, storage and essential services.

The group includes Wilson Security Australia, Medic One patient transport services, Wilson Parking and Wilson Storage, alongside operations across New Zealand. Their teams support critical frontline environments across healthcare, transport, retail, defence, infrastructure and high-risk field operations, making Health, Safety & Wellbeing a key strategic focus across the business.

The opportunity:
  • Lead a growing team of HSE Advisors across your 
  • Partner closely with operational leadership teams across diverse frontline operations
  • Drive safety culture, leadership capability and accountability uplift
  • Support critical risk management, investigations and incident response
  • Contribute to executive reporting, audits and operational improvement initiatives
  • Coach and influence leaders to build long-term safety capability
  • Support broader national HSE strategy and alignment activities
This is a role with genuine visibility, influence and opportunity to contribute strategically across the business.

About you:
You are a pragmatic and commercially minded HSE professional who builds credibility through relationships, communication and practical support.

You will ideally bring:
  • Experience within high-risk operational environments
  • Strong investigations and risk management capability
  • Exposure to ISO systems and audit processes
  • The ability to influence and coach operational leaders
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
  • A calm, collaborative and solutions-focused approach
Experience within security, healthcare, transport, mining, contractor management or lone worker environments will be highly regarded.

What’s on offer:
  • Senior business partnering opportunity within a national organisation
  • Fully maintained vehicle included
  • Hybrid working model (4 days onsite / 1 day WFH)
  • Strong executive support and investment in the HSE function
  • Opportunity to genuinely influence safety strategy and operational outcomes
  • Collaborative and growing national HSE team
Based in Perth with occasional interstate and intrastate travel.

All applicants to be sent to Suzi Johnson via email sjohnson@thesafestep.com.au or by clikcing on Apply.

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The HSE Business Partner role with The Safe Step is based in Perth, WA, AU.
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