Senior Hazard & Critical Risk Specialist

We have a permanent opportunity for a Senior Hazard and Critical Risk Specialist to play a pivotal role in preventing fatalities and serious harm across our operations. You’ll shape how high‑consequence hazards are identified, controlled and assured—bringing clarity, consistency and confidence to critical risk management across the business.

Working alongside skilled technical professionals, you’ll help define and strengthen the critical controls that matter most, embedding practical, effective risk practices into day‑to‑day operations. You’ll empower leaders and frontline teams alike, using insight, data and structured problem‑solving to simplify complex safety challenges and reduce exposure to fatal risk.

Your Role in Action  

• Act as a subject‑matter authority on critical risk and high‑consequence hazards, providing trusted technical advice that strengthens fatal risk prevention and supports sound, risk‑informed decision making across the business
• Define, design and maintain critical controls that are clearly articulated, risk‑aligned and practical, ensuring they are embedded into real‑world operations, standards and ways of working
• Facilitate and lead high‑risk and fatal‑risk assessments, applying appropriate methodologies, coordinating workshops and ensuring outcomes meet legislative, governance and Western Power standards
• Shape and continuously improve the Critical Control Verification program, including verification methodologies, assurance tools, reporting frameworks and governance that drive meaningful control assurance
• Enable effective verification and ownership of controls by coaching leaders and teams to conduct purposeful, risk‑focused verifications that build operating discipline and safety leadership maturity
• Analyse incident, hazard, verification and risk data to identify control gaps, emerging trends and systemic weaknesses, translating insight into targeted, preventative interventions
• Apply structured problem‑solving and systems thinking to simplify complex safety challenges and develop practical, sustainable solutions that reduce exposure to fatal risk
• Demonstrate values‑led safety leadership, working autonomously within a high‑performing technical team while collaborating with operational leaders, the SHE function and stakeholders to uplift consistency, capability and continuous improvement

What Makes You a Great Fit 

• A strong, values‑led safety professional with deep experience managing critical risks and high‑consequence hazards in complex, high‑risk environments
• Proven ability to translate strategy and technical insight into practical, fit‑for‑purpose controls that work in real operational settings
• Demonstrated expertise in critical hazard identification, critical control design and control effectiveness verification, with a focus on preventing serious harm
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, complex environments, balancing competing priorities with an adaptable, solutions‑focused mindset; experience with Agile, Lean or Six Sigma methodologies is valued
• A collaborative influencer who can achieve outcomes without direct authority, building strong partnerships and navigating multiple stakeholders across functions
• Strong foundation in safety management systems, WHS legislation and recognised risk assessment methodologies, with the ability to turn data and insights into informed decisions and meaningful improvement

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 20 May 2026 

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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