Role Title: HSEQ Advisor
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Caringbah
The Role:
As the HSEQ Advisor, you’ll provide operational HSEQ support to build strong safety, environmental, and quality practices across JFD’s Sydney sites. The role works closely with project and operational teams, offering specialist advice, promoting strong reporting culture, and helping ensure safe, compliant operations within high‑risk environments.
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing specialist HSEQ advice to operational and project teams.
- Advising on strategies to eliminate or mitigate hazards.
- Meeting HSEQ reporting requirements, ensuring quality and timeliness.
- Supporting a strong reporting culture grounded in honesty and trust.
What we’re looking for:
- Demonstrated experience in a similar role
- Proactive approach to HSEQ leadership.
- Certificate 4 of Health and Safety or a higher qualification.
- Experience in critical risk environments
- Ability to lead incident investigations – ICAM Trained or other
- Fully conversant with all relevant laws, standards, and best practices.
- Good knowledge of ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 management system standards.
- Excellent analytical skills with a high attention to detail.
- Experience working with HAZ/DG products and software – ChemAlert, Chemwatch
- Competent in the use of Office 365 suite and e-learning software programs
- Ability to build audit templates and participate in audit programs.
- Personal communication skills and ability to interact at all levels of an organisation, including customers.
- Proactive, positive and solutions focused approach to work.
- Ability to work on your own and to specified timescales and project plans.
Why join us?
- Join a team of people who are passionate about their job.
- Opportunity to expand the role and obtain new skills and experience.
- Contribute to a growing and successful business with an exciting order book.
- Wellbeing programs – employee assistance program to support you and your immediate family with counselling and support as needed.
- Flexible working arrangements, including a condensed working week to support a half day every Friday.
- Generous paid community service leave to support your local community or serve as a defence reservist.
- Weekly fruit baskets to keep hunger at bay on busy days.
- Free on-site parking.
- Novated car leasing options available.
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme
About Us:
JFD is the world leading underwater capability provider, serving the commercial and defence markets with innovative diving, submarine and hyperbaric rescue, technical solutions and services.
Operating worldwide, the company is the world’s leading provider of submarine rescue capability and an established provider of submarine escape training. The company is at the forefront of Hyperbaric Rescue, along with being the leading supplier of commercial and defence diving equipment and saturation diving systems to the commercial industry.
We pride ourselves on the quality of the products and solutions we supply and our close work with our customers to ensure that our products remain safe and reliable in the most challenging subsea environments. The key to building and maintaining our world class reputation is the recruitment and retention of the very best people.
JFD is part of the broader James Fisher Group which provides a wider range of maritime engineering and logistic products and services to industries including oil and gas; renewables; and maritime transportation.
Visit our website at: JFD Global
For more information about our values and behaviours, follow the link: About us | James Fisher and Sons plc
How to apply
- Applicants must have existing Australian work rights.
- Any offer of employment will be subject to a preemployment health screen which includes a drug and alcohol screening.
- Veterans are encouraged to apply!
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our vacancies, on occasion applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.