Woolworths

Safety, Health and Wellbeing - Store Operations Enablement Partner

• Full-time, permanent role | Auckland location
• Join an established, high performing team and grow your career in Safety, Health & Wellbeing 
• Play an active part in influencing and enhancing team member well-being and a positive safety culture

Ready to make an impact?

Based at Woolworths’ Head Office, in Favona, this role will see you proactively support a culture of Safety, Health and Wellbeing excellence to achieve continuous SHW improvement across Woolworths New Zealand. You will use your industry expertise to support the delivery of practical solutions and ensure change management, from daily shifts to  automation changes,protect the physical and psychological safety of our team. If you are ready to support the business with best-practice frameworks and drive a culture where we listen, learn, and always do the right thing, this is the role for you.

What you'll do | Hei mahi

• Support the creation and implementation of legislative-compliant Safety, Health, and Wellbeing(SHW) Processes and systems that align with Woolworths Group’s strategic objectives.
• Risk Management & Assessment: Lead comprehensive risk assessments and research to identify, control, and continually manage workplace hazards, particularly during periods of business change or automation.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Partner with and influence  leaders, from Store Managers to contractors—to embed SHW strategies into end-to-end business operations.
• Capability Building: Drive safety maturity by coaching and mentoring leadership teams, facilitating training programs to enhance proactive risk management competency.
• Continuous Improvement: Manage critical risk areas and collaboratively develop injury prevention initiatives to foster a culture of behavioral safety and operational excellence.
• Assurance & Compliance: Support the Operational Safety Business Partners to execute  assurance activities and business improvement projects, including the integration of new technologies like generative AI.

What you’ll bring | Hei koha

• This is an exciting opportunity for an early career SHW Partner to build on their experience in a strong team and an established business. To be successful in this role, your experience will likely reflect:
• Professional Expertise: Proven background in Safety, Health, and Wellbeing, supported by an H&S Diploma or relevant tertiary qualifications.
• Stakeholder Influence: Exceptional interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to influence and build strong relationships with team members at all levels of the business.
• Incident Investigation: Experience conducting detailed incident investigations and root cause analysis to deliver actionable corrective reports.
• Training & Communication: Skilled at presenting and facilitating SHW training, ensuring complex technical information is understood by both internal and external stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: A logical and creative thinker with the ability to solve complex safety challenges and implement innovative, business-wide solutions.
• Administrative Rigor: Strong document and version control skills, maintaining a highly organized and focused approach to safety management systems.

This is a fast paced innovative role and one where you will be empowered to make a significant contribution to making Kiwis’ lives a little better everyday! If you’d like to make a key contribution to the growth of our business, apply today!

Our Benefits 

• Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
• Ongoing development within an trans-tasman team and access to amazing leaders to help you learn how to navigate in a large corporate environment
• A very supportive line leader, and peer-to-peer senior SHW leadership team, who all lead with care, compassion and empathy, and will support you to get your feet under the table as quickly as possible.  We’re a practical, problem solving bunch of kiwis, who love what we do
• There are the other items too, like our: 
  • Everyday Rewards team card, providing a range of benefits including discounts and bonus points for groceries and discounted online shopping delivery
  • Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts 
  • Global and local career opportunities - depending on where you are on your career journey

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group 

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.