Why You’ll Love Working With Us
Some of the key benefits for the position and employment at Programmed, include:
- Competitive compensation:Receive an attractive base salary aligned with your experience + fully maintained company vehicle
- Exclusive employee perks:Access discounts and benefits with over 600 retailers, including Woolworths, Supercheap Auto and many more!
- Salary sacrifice benefits:Take advantage of novated vehicle leasing, income protection insurance, and other financial perks.
- Investment in you:We're passionate about personal and professional growth, offering access to certificates, webinars, mentorship, and practical training to help you thrive in your career.
- Your well-being, our priority:Strong safety culture, generous paid parental leave and access to our Employee Assistance Program, including tailored well-being initiatives designed to support your personal and family needs.
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a proactiveHSEQ Managerto lead health, safety and environmental performance across our New Zealand contract portfolio within the Programmed Facility Management (FM) operating division. This is a permanent, full-time opportunity supporting a diverse, multi-site operation delivering planned and reactive maintenance, asset management, and project services for a broad mix of public and private sector clients including utilities and essential infrastructure networks, local government authorities, education, and transport-related assets.
This role partners closely with contract leadership teams to embed safe work practices and strengthen a consistent safety culture across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide visible HSE leadership across the NZ contract portfolio, promoting a strong “Zero Harm” culture and consistent safety behaviours.
- Ensure the requirements of the HSEQ Management System and relevant site/contract HSEQ Management Plans are implemented and maintained across all contracts.
- Monitor and improve HSE performance against defined metrics, supporting governance meetings and operational reviews with clear insights and actions.
- Lead and support incident reporting, investigation and corrective actions; coach leaders to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Drive proactive risk management: support effective task planning, risk assessments, inspections and verification activities across planned and reactive maintenance environments.
- Strengthen contractor and subcontractor HSE compliance through practical assurance activities, onboarding/induction support and performance follow-up.
- Build strong relationships with operational leaders and client stakeholders, providing pragmatic advice that enables safe, compliant and efficient service delivery.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Operations, Procurement, HR, and the support HSEQ function) to deliver consistent systems, capability uplift, and continuous improvement initiatives.
About You
You are an engaging, hands-on HSE leader who thrives in complex, service-driven environments where work is delivered through a mix of in-house teams and subcontractor partners. You bring sound judgement, strong stakeholder influence and a practical approach to coaching leaders and frontline teams. You are comfortable working across multiple sites, balancing operational realities with rigorous compliance, and you know how to convert HSE insights into measurable improvement.
Additionally, you will demonstrate and possess the following:
- Proven HSE leadership experience within facilities management, maintenance services, building trades/services, utilities, transport, infrastructure or similarly complex operating environments.
- Strong working knowledge of HSE legislative requirements and the practical application of training, consultation, auditing and assurance activities.
- Demonstrated capability to monitor performance, interpret trends and report meaningful safety insights to operational leaders.
- Experience leading or supporting incident investigations and coordinating corrective actions that improve systems and behaviours.
- Confidence working with internal trade teams and subcontractors to lift compliance and performance across diverse maintenance categories.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills (written and verbal) with an ability to influence at all levels.
- Familiarity with integrated management systems and/or certification frameworks (e.g., ISO 45001 / ISO 14001 / ISO 9001) is advantageous.
- A continuous improvement mindset and genuine commitment to coaching leaders and teams to achieve better safety outcomes.
- Alignment with our core values: Safety Leadership, Care& Empathy, Customer Service, and Diversity, Inclusion& Equality.
About Us
Programmed is a leading provider of operations and maintenance services across all industry sectors including education, health, infrastructure, manufacturing, transport and mining in Australia and New Zealand.
Our Facility Management business unit partners with our valued clients to deliver a comprehensive range of facilities management from small repair work to managing large-scale facilities and infrastructure networks.
We encourage career development, support flexibility and care about your personal wellbeing and safety. Join the Programmed team today.
Work With Us
Submit your application today and join us on our mission to build outstanding people, strong customers, and great communities.
Our Commitment
Programmed and PERSOL supports a workplace culture of zero harm and encourages this in all that we do.
Programmed and PERSOL strives for diversity, inclusion and equality of our people. We seek a workforce that is representative of the communities we work in. We encourage people of all cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation or abilities to apply.
To learn more about working with Programmed and PERSOL, we encourage you to visit our website.
