Health & Safety Business Partner - Lichfield - Bay of Plenty District - 12029 - Fonterra

Job Name

Health & Safety Business Partner - Lichfield

General Information

Date Published

23-May-2025

Advertising Ends

06-Jun-2025

ID#

12029

Role Type

Quality & Safety

Work Type

Permanent Full-Time

Workplace Type

On-site

Country

New Zealand

Location

Bay of Plenty District

Position Description

Our Co-operative

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

About the opportunity | Mō tēnei tūranga

We have an exciting opportunity for a Health & Safety Business Partner to join our team based at our Lichfield site in the beautiful Waikato. Lichfield is one of our largest sites in the region, and is a great

opportunity to make a difference to the site and wider community. As part of a wider team who is focused on cutting edge approaches to health and safety, you will get the opportunity to develop your health & safety career with plenty of variety and challenges.

As the H&S Business Partner, you will build strong relationships with site leaders and workers, and coach them as we continue to implement HOP practices and mindsets onsite. You will play a key role in supporting the site to deliver on our global Fonterra vision of ‘Safe Work, Thriving People.

Other key tasks include:

As a trusted partner and member of the site leadership team, work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement and make recommendations to ensure we manage our risk effectively.
Understand the business environment to anticipate safety issues and associated risks and provide practical solutions.
Lead on learning reviews post-incident to understand the deeper causative factors and help build resilience into safer work.
Coach, support and guide leaders to implement systems that support safer work.
Work with the wider regional and national business partnering team to continuously improve our safety performance.

About you | Mōu

You will not only have knowledge in health and safety but will also know how to guide and influence leaders and others based on modern health and safety approaches. A passionate relationship-builder, your stakeholder relationship skills will be second to none, and your natural resilience and ability to manage expectations proactively will see you go far in this role.

To make an impact in this role you will have:

Strong technical health and safety expertise ideally from a manufacturing or high-risk environment.
Exposure to modern approaches, including HOP principles or Safety II mindsets.
Ability to instil trust across a diverse workforce and establish meaningful relationships with stakeholders.
Preferably hold a relevant health and safety certificate or diploma (NEBOSH or equivalent).
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment plus being adaptable to change and ambiguity.

Our story | To Tatou Korero

Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.

Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose
Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do
Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations
Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together.

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