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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Business
Higgins
Location
Manawatu-Whanganui
Job Reference
40971
Posted Date
10-Jul-2025
Closing Date
07-Aug-2025

Description

Are you passionate about promoting a culture of safety and excellence? Join Higgins as an EHS Advisor in Palmerston North, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the well-being of our team members and the success of our projects. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic and supportive environment, with opportunities for growth and development within the wider Fletcher Building group.


About the Role

In this role, you will play a crucial part in promoting a safety culture and ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety standards. Reporting to the EHSQ Manager, you will provide high-level professional advice, coach teams on best practices, and lead by example.

  • Provide high-level professional advice to front-line leaders and the workforce to promote an interdependent safety culture.
  • Coach crews on best practice safety and help them ensure all risks are appropriately managed in the workplace.
  • Review and provide feedback on implemented site EHS plans with team leaders.
  • Lead by example, implementing Higgins practices and values.
  • Conduct comprehensive accident/incident investigations and recommend corrective and preventative actions.
  • Maintain positive relationships with external stakeholders and keep up to date with industry trends.


What you will bring to the role

  • Previous advisory experience in health and safety within the civil construction industry is essential 
  • Tertiary qualifications in EHS 
  • Excellent knowledge of the NZ legislative environment including HSE, ACC and HSNO and industry guidelines and standards 
  • Thorough knowledge of work-related illnesses and injuries, and rehabilitation processes
  • Ability to conduct comprehensive accident/incident investigations, recommend correct and preventative actions
  • Strong communication skills with a coaching, influencing emphasis 
  • Ability to build credibility and trust in the business

Why Join Us!

  • Competitive salary
  • Career development – opportunities to grow your career at Higgins and the wider Fletcher Building group of businesses
  • Access to Fletchers Building Benefits Programme - Benefits | Fletcher Construction

Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are on a dynamic growth path with people at the heart of what we do every day. We offer a great working environment and a number of employee benefits that are available to permanent full-time employees – these include access to the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund, FBuShare our global employee share plan, discounted Southern Cross healthcare, an exceptional Parental Leave Policy, Fletcher Building Welfare Fund, and our lucrative Fletcher Building retail discounts which will give significant discounts throughout multiple retail stores.

Building better roads for safer journeys 
He pai ake te hanga o ngā rori, kia haumaru ai ngā haerenga

We are actively looking to fill this role and encourage your early application. Applications are reviewed regularly, and we reserve the right to remove the advertisement before the advertised closing date.

Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.