Safety, Health & Environment Advisor
AECOM
Company Description
No matter where you are in your career, there's a path for you here at AECOM.
Come grow with us.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. Partner with our business leaders locally and throughout Australia and New Zealand and operate in a core team across the region, working with a variety of stakeholders and contribute towards key deliverables. No matter where you are in your career, there's a path for you here at AECOM.
Everyone belongs at AECOM
We’re committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - because great ideas come from diverse perspectives. AECOM is proud to be a Fortune 500 Most Admired Company, a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, # Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards 2025 Winner and an AWEI Bronze Tier LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer.
This is an opportunity to grow your SHE career inside one of the world's leading infrastructure consultancies. As a SHE Advisor within AECOM's ANZ team, you will join us on a 12-month fixed-term basis, working alongside experienced practitioners on a diverse range of projects and programmes, building the practical knowledge and confidence to become a trusted safety professional.
How you'll make a difference
- Serving as the go-to SHE resource for frontline teams and leaders, providing practical, timely advice on safety, health and environment matters that helps people work confidently and safely every day.
- Playing an active role in the fundamentals that keep a safety management system strong - contributing to audits, inspections, incident investigations, risk assessments and the continuous improvement of SHE processes and tools.
- Bringing critical risk programmes and SHE initiatives to life by coordinating committee meetings, supporting injury prevention and return-to-work activities, and helping embed safe work practices across the business.
- Partnering with project teams to provide SHE input across planning, design reviews and field activities, ensuring work is set up safely and that AECOM's standards are reflected at every stage of delivery.
- Producing clear, well-structured written materials including reports, training content, investigation summaries and bid submissions that communicate important safety information in a way people can actually use.
Qualifications
The qualities that help you thrive
The following experience and attributes are highly desirable. If you do not meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We value transferable skills, genuine enthusiasm and the willingness to grow just as highly as technical experience
- A relevant tertiary qualification in safety, health, environment or a related discipline with around 3-4 years of experience in a comparable role - however we will consider people with less experience. Exposure to an operational or construction setting is a bonus, though what we value most is genuine curiosity and a real commitment to growing in the profession.
- Confident, clear communication across all levels - someone who writes with purpose, listens to understand, asks thoughtful questions and knows how to make complex requirements feel simple and actionable for the people who need to apply them.
- Solid organisational ability and a strong sense of personal accountability, with the capability to juggle a varied workload, deliver on commitments and exercise good judgement about when to escalate or seek guidance.
- A genuine ability to connect with people and build trust over time, working comfortably alongside colleagues, clients and contractors and earning respect through reliability and a sincere interest in shared outcomes.
- An appetite for growth and a healthy openness to feedback, with the kind of initiative and care for quality that comes from wanting to do the work well - not just wanting it finished.
- Ability to work flexibly in the office, at home or in the field.
Additional Information
Why you’ll love working with us
- Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
- Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
- Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better
- Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.
Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.