• Job Description

  Req#: req31811

  SafeWork Inspector – Regional Construction Compliance

  Opportunity to join the SafeWork Regional C onstruction Compliance N orthern NSW team – Apply Today!

  Role: Inspector – Regional C onstruction Compliance

  Salary range: $108,610 - $117,937 + superannuation

  Duration: Ongoing (permanent full-time)

  Location: Narrabri

  Closing Date: Tuesday 20th February 2024 (9:59AM)

  About the Team

  SafeWork NSW is the state’s workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to reduce work related fatalities, serious injuries and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety legislation and improving the safety culture in NSW workplaces.

  About the Role

  As an Inspector in Regional Construction Compliance , you will be responsible for :

  • Undertaking proactive site inspections, responding to customer requests, completing preliminary incident investigations, delivering presentations, and working with major industry stakeholders to improve safety standards
  • Providing advice regarding construction safe work practices and how to comply with work health and safety legislation
  • Taking action where safe work practices fall below industry expectations
  • Collecting relevant information and apply transparent evidence based decision when working to improve safety
  • Producing reports to confirm your actions
  • Ensuring internal administrative compliance by completing travel, expense, and time keeping records
  • Contributing to a positive, supportive, and fun workplace

  To be successful, you will have:

  • Qualifications and or and experience in the building industry
  • A working understanding of safety requirements applicable to construction
  • Strong communication skills to engage and influence key stakeholders to improve regulatory outcomes
  • Good written communication skills and an ability to understand comprehensive and/or technical reports
  • Well established resilience skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a diverse team
  • Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a timely manner
  • Demonstrated knowledge and use of digital technology
    

  In joining SafeWork NSW, you will be rewarded with a great opportunity to apply your experience with your passion for workplace health and safety. You will:

  • Work a 38-hour working week, including some weekends and participate in the After-Hours Emergency Response Service
  • Receive an attractive salary package along with the required tools of the trade, including a vehicle with access to private use (currently at a cost of approximately $210 per fortnight)
  • Be able to access flexible working conditions within operational requirements

  Essential requirements

  • Ability to travel, work remotely and out of usual business hours
  • Hold a NSW ‘C’ class drivers' licence with a satisfactory safe driving record and a requirement to maintain the safe driving record throughout employment
  • Satisfactory criminal record check
  • Satisfactory medical assessment capacity regarding physical and psychological impacts of the inherent duties of the role
  • Undertake the 12-month New Inspector Training Program (NITP). This intensive program is delivered by our Registered Training Organisation and combines mandatory components of induction, class training, online learning, completion of set assessments and tasks, and extensive on-the-job field training with regular travel throughout NSW. For more information click here.

  How to Apply

  Your application should include:

  • A covering letter (maximum two pages) indicating the role you are applying for and what you would bring to this role, including demonstrated examples
  • You should also include an up-to-date resume (of no more than five pages)
  • A copy of your current online driving record from Service NSW
  • A copy of your current demerit points from Service NSW

  If you do not provide all the required documentation, your application will not be progressed.

  Any questions about this role?

  For enquiries relating this recruitment, please contact Tayla Gibbs at inspectorrecruitment@safework.nsw.gov.au

  For enquiries regarding this position please contact Kane Scott via Kane.Scott@safework.nsw.gov.au

  A talent pool may be created to fill future ongoing opportunities for a period of up to 18 months.

  Salary Grade Inspector, with the base salary for this role starting at $108,610 base plus superannuation

  Click Here to access the Role Description . For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Tayla Gibbs via inspectorrecruitment@safework.nsw.gov.au.

  Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.

  Closing Date: 20th February 2024 (9:59AM)

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  We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you feel you may require an adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team via inspectorrecruitment@safework.nsw.gov.au or 02 9494 8351.

  
  

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• About the company

  The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales.

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