Environment Health & Safety Manager

Job Description

Environment Health & Safety Manager

Grow your Health & Safety career in a global FMCG organisation

Collaborative and dynamic work environment

Competitive salary package, annual bonus, and market leading benefits

Grow your career in Health & Safety with Kraft Heinz!

Are you looking to own your career in Environmental Health & Safety? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for an EHS Manager to join our Manufacturing team based out of our Northgate (QLD) Kraft Heinz site!

The Company

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Own site-wide Health & Safety performance for the Northgate manufacturing and national distribution centre, with accountability for results and reporting to site leadership.

Lead the site Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) management system, ensuring practical, effective controls are implemented consistently across all departments.

Ensure compliance with all relevant EHS legislation, standards, and internal requirements, and maintain clear evidence of due diligence.

Identify, assess, and prioritise EHS risks; develop and deliver risk reduction plans that prevent incidents and minimise business disruption.

Plan and deliver the site EHS audit programme (internal/external), track corrective actions to closure, and verify effectiveness.

Monitor and analyse EHS performance (leading and lagging indicators), provide clear insights to leaders, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead emergency preparedness and response planning, including drills, lessons learned, and ongoing improvements to site readiness.

Support site business continuity and operational risk planning (including facility security considerations where applicable), ensuring risks are understood and mitigated.

Partner with operational leaders and teams to embed safe ways of working, strengthen safety leadership, and build accountability at all levels.

Manage EHS-related cost avoidance/value initiatives through practical, risk-based recommendations and sound business cases.

About you:

Proven EHS leadership experience in a manufacturing and/or distribution environment.

Strong working knowledge of relevant EHS legislation and regulator expectations, with the ability to evidence compliance.

Demonstrated capability to assess risk, set priorities, and implement practical controls that reduce incidents.

Hands-on experience planning and delivering EHS audits/inspections and driving corrective actions to completion.

Comfortable using EHS data and trends to shape site plans, focus effort, and brief leadership clearly.

Experience building and maintaining emergency preparedness and response arrangements (plans, drills, reviews).

Strong stakeholder management skills—able to influence leaders, coach teams, and challenge unsafe practices constructively.

Skilled in managing contractor safety and high-risk work through effective planning, permits, and verification.

Confident communicator who can provide clear technical advice and training across a busy, multi-department site.

Integrity-driven, organised, and resilient, with the judgement to balance operational needs and risk reduction.

Eligibility to work in Australia – with full working rights.

Benefits of working with us

Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package

Parental Leave – paid time off for both primary AND secondary caregivers

Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter

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In House Training Programs

Corporate Discount Programs

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're passionate about Environment, Health, and Safety, eager to learn, and enjoy working in a team environment, please submit your application. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close our job advertisements early.

Location(s)

Northgate

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes .