Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS)

Join the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

The Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS) plays a unique role in supporting a safe, fair and responsible future for the Western Australian community, industry and resources sector. We are committed to leading with integrity, delivering on commitments, striving for excellence, and looking for better ways of doing things.

At DEMIRS, we pride ourselves on creating a supportive, inclusive and innovative environment that allows our people to contribute, develop and thrive to reach their full potential. We offer a diverse range of extraordinary career opportunities across the department and we are committed to creating a culture that values and promotes continuous learning.

What does DEMIRS do?

• Resource advice and regulation: we ensure that the State’s natural resources are developed and managed responsibly through the provision of resource advice and regulatory services to the Western Australian community.
• Safety advice and regulation: we provide advice and regulatory services to the Western Australian community in the area of occupational safety and health.
• Industry advice and regulation: we provide advice and regulatory services to the Western Australian community in the areas of consumer protection, building and plumbing, electricity and gas, and labour relations.

How will you contribute?

As members of the public sector, our employees are in a unique position to help shape Western Australia. Our diverse and agile workforce brings a range of skills, experiences and perspectives and needs to be reflective of the community we serve. This aim is reflected in our various diversity initiatives which include a focus on women in leadership, employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, young professionals, people from a cultural and linguistic diverse background, and people with disability.

How will you develop?

The department aims to develop a highly skilled and diverse workforce that is responsive, resilient and forward thinking. We are committed to creating a culture that values and promotes continuous learning, building on both the individual’s capability and the organisation’s capacity.

We believe that a gender-balanced leadership team has the ability to improve operational effectiveness and deliver better outcomes for the community.

How will you thrive?

As our employees undertake their own journey to contribute to the department and develop their skills, this allows them to thrive in their role. The department values employee’s responsiveness to contribute to our customer centric service theme, and to be respectful of one another on their journey with the department.

Your success is our success and we are here to support you to thrive in your career with the WA Public Sector.

What we offer you

We offer a supportive, diverse and innovative environment, with great benefits, including:

• Great work/life balance with 37.5 hour full time working week as a standard, with flexible working hours for most roles.
• Leave options including public service holidays, purchase leave, deferred leave, long service leave accrued every seven years and three weeks of personal leave accrued per annum.
• Flexibility to work at home, in the field and in the office for most roles.
• Stable work, job security, fair remuneration, 11% superannuation contributions to a provider of your choice and salary packaging options.
• The ability to give back to your community and make a difference.
• A collaborative environment with the ability to gain insight from subject matter experts in your field.
• Opportunities for professional development, acting, shadowing and mentoring.
• Support to grow your skills with a wide range of formal training options.
• The opportunity to build a healthy lifestyle with our award-winning Health and Wellbeing program.
• A supportive work environment including an employee assistance program to assist you deal with life’s challenges.

All employees have further access to:

• Four weeks annual leave (based on full-time work) with 17.5% loading paid in December each year.
• Three one-day Public Service Holidays per year for full time employees.
• 13 weeks long service leave (on completion of seven years).
• Salary payments, deposited fortnightly into your nominated bank account.
• Cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff.
• Special Public Health Emergency Leave.
• Parental leave including 14 weeks' paid leave and option on how and when you return to work. This is in addition to the federal paid parental leave. 
• Working environment

The department is committed to providing a positive work environment that supports flexible work to enable employees to balance their work and non-work commitments. This includes a variety of leave and flexible work arrangements.

While access to flexible work depends on the role conditions, many of our employees are able to access:

• purchased leave
• work at home
• part-time work
• job sharing
• secondary employment
• family and domestic violence leave

The department promotes a safety culture where all our workers and employees work together to take care of their own health and safety, and that of their colleagues and visitors to our workplace.

We provide employees with the opportunities, tools, resources and support to improve their health and wellbeing at work.

These include activities in the Thrive at Work – Employee Wellbeing Strategy and the department's award-winning Working on Wellness (WOW) program along with various wellbeing supports both internal (Contact Officers and Mental Health First Aid Officers) and external to the department such as the Employee Assistance Program and the Potentially Traumatic Event Response Support program.