GMA Garnet
OHS Coordinator
Geraldton, Gascoyne & Midwest, Yallabatharra, Western Australia
Full time
Posted 01/05/2025
Closed 15/05/2025
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
At GMA we pride ourselves on recruiting and retaining a local workforce giving you the enjoyment of a mining industry career, whilst being able to be home every night with your family and friends.
We offer competitive salaries, transport to and from our port Gregory operations as well as paid lunch and tea breaks.
In addition to the above some of GMA’s employee benefits include:
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (Annual, Personal, Community Service, Parental, Long Service Leave)
- 2x Protected Public holidays so you can celebrate important events with your family and friends.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Generous employee incentive scheme (Bonus)
- Superannuation above statutory minimum's for long term employees.
- Gym Membership Program Employee Assistant Program
VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS
At GMA we are committed to fulfilling our purpose by always adhering to our values of Teamwork, Care, Trust, Excellence, Determination and Entrepreneurship in our everyday work and behaviours:
- Teamwork: Work collaboratively and support one another to achieve great outcomes. Seek what is best for GMA, our customers and our colleagues rather than just ourselves.
- Care: Show respect and concern for each other and ourselves. Ensure we do the right thing and we do it well. go the extra mile to ensure we all reach our goals.
- Trust: Be open and honest. Share information openly and proactively, follow through on commitments.
- Excellence: Set high standards and hold ourselves, and each other accountable for achieving them. Focus on great results. Make the right choices, even if no one is looking.
- Determination: Never give up
- Entrepreneurship: We look for opportunities to innovate and grow
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Make Your Mark on a WA Success Story
Founded in the coastal town of Port Gregory, the culture of GMA is built on a legacy of innovation. From humble beginnings more than 40 years ago, GMA has grown to become the global leader in the garnet abrasives industry.
While it takes a team of over 500 people to operate GMA's three mine sites, ten processing plants, five recycling facilities, and 13 offices around the globe, the legacy of innovation and core values continue to pass down throughout each generation.
POSITION PURPOSE
Reporting to the OHS Manager, the OHS Coordinator is responsible for providing day to day high level safety health advice and assistance across the GMA Port Gregory site whilst maintaining safety management systems.
This is residential role only, FIFO is not offered.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES but not limited to| Health and Safety
- Provide high level advice to operational personnel in relation to risk and the development and implementation of appropriate controls.
- Ensure mine site compliance with GMA Health and Safety policies, procedures and Lifesaving Rules.
- Assist in the development and documentation of OHS/risk management procedures and safe operating procedures.
- Liaise with OHS personnel across Mining Australia to ensure alignment and consistency of processes and systems where possible.
- Continually review work practices and support the continuous improvement of processes and systems.
- Lead and facilitate significant incident investigations where required.
- Assist and support frontline leaders and managers in incident investigations.
- Attend management, safety committee and contractor meetings as required.
- Monitor the quality of Take 5s, JSA’s, formal risk assessments and other risk management tools and provide advice to relevant stakeholders.
- Liaise with the OHS Manager to ensure corporate systems, standards and reporting requirements are maintained and assist with the development, introduction and implementation of regional, corporate and global initiatives.
- Actively participate in formal and informal forums to increase and enhance understanding and awareness of OHS issues, trends and initiatives.
- Maintain PPE supply levels to ensure appropriate PPE is available to the operations.
- Actively ensure own health and safety and the safety of others through understanding and implementing workplace health and safety obligations. Assist with onsite drug and alcohol testing.
SKILLS AND SELECTION CRITERIA | RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Must have the right to work in Australia.
- Degree in OHS or related discipline (desirable).
- Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety. Certificate (Level 4) in Training and Assessment will be an added advantage.
SKILLS AND SELECTION CRITERIA | ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- At least 3-5 years’ experience a safety related role, ideally in mining industry.
- Experience in conducting, leading and facilitating ICAM or other root cause analysis investigation processes.
- A sound understanding of relevant legislation and regulatory requirement.
- Proven ability to carry out projects and to effectively communicate with the project participants and stakeholders.
- Computer literacy using the Microsoft Office suite.
- Ability to work within a diverse team, approachable.
- Excellent communication skills.