Manager - Contractor Safety

Monash • Clayton, NC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Monash University is seeking a Manager - Contractor Safety to provide strategic leadership across its property and infrastructure portfolio. Reporting to the Director, the role has broad autonomy and leads a team of four in managing contractor safety, capital works and infrastructure operations across research, teaching and residential assets.

The position champions the contractor safety management framework throughout the contractor lifecycle, embeds Safety in Design principles and drives customer-focused health, safety and wellbeing (HSW) solutions. It provides strategic contractor safety governance and assurance, maintains overarching HSW oversight of the University's framework, and ensures contractors retain operational responsibility for their own systems of work.

The role leads critical risk and assurance activities, monitors contractor performance and uses data to identify trends, priorities and opportunities for continuous improvement. It works collaboratively with procurement, major projects, facilities and operations, and contract management; influences key teams; manages unit budgets; directs strategic policies; and engages with senior academic and external partners to achieve high-impact safety outcomes.

Requirements

• Postgraduate qualifications or equivalent experience.
• Extensive HSW management expertise.
• Proven track record implementing or improving contractor safety frameworks in large, complex and contractor-intensive environments.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strategic agility.
• High-level stakeholder negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across the University's property and infrastructure portfolio.
• Lead a team of four managing contractor safety, capital works and infrastructure operations across research, teaching and residential assets.
• Champion the contractor safety management framework across the contractor lifecycle.
• Embed Safety in Design principles and drive customer-focused HSW solutions.
• Provide strategic contractor safety governance and assurance, maintaining overarching HSW oversight of the University's framework.
• Ensure contractors retain operational responsibility for their own systems of work.
• Lead critical risk and assurance activities and monitor contractor performance.
• Use data to identify trends, priorities and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with procurement, major projects, facilities and operations, and contract management teams.
• Influence key teams, manage unit budgets and direct strategic policies.
• Engage with senior academic and external partners to achieve high-impact safety outcomes.

Benefits

• 17% employer superannuation.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Policies supporting staff to combine work and personal commitments, including support for parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager