Senior HSE Advisor

Job Family Group:

HSSE Group

Job Description:

Step into a pivotal role where your expertise truly shapes the way we work!

As a Senior Health, Safety and Environment Advisor based in our Brisbane office, you’ll be a driving force behind HSE excellence across our ANZ operations. Partnered closely with stakeholders at every level, including Senior Leadership, to champion a strong safety culture and ensure our petrol stations and offices operate safely, reliably, and fully compliant.

This is your opportunity to showcase your leadership in HSE, influence best‑practice standards, and contribute to a high‑performing team dedicated to cultivating a healthy, safe, and thriving workplace. Your impact will directly support bp’s purpose during the energy transition, helping deliver energy to the world safely, today and tomorrow.

This is a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, offering the chance to make a meaningful impact quickly while gaining exposure across a dynamic, high‑profile business. It’s an excellent opportunity to expand your HSE leadership experience, broaden network, and take on career‑defining work in a global organisation.

What you will deliver

• Lead the design and implementation of innovative, best practice initiatives as part of the ANZ HSE strategy.

• Enhance operational HSE capability through coaching on safety culture, risk, incident response, and change management.

• Advise Operations with HSE expertise and connect them to relevant SME support.

• Influence leaders to implement risk mitigation strategies and drive improvements in HSE performance,

• Develop robust documented processes, training and systems to support safe, reliable and compliant operations.

• Support the business in incident response, investigation, corrective action and classification.

• Ensure compliance with H&S legislation and liaise with regulators as the need arises.

• Analyse HSSE data and performance, identify trends and recommend improvement actions.

• Evaluate conformance with the Operating Management System and assess barrier health through operational and system verification and corrective action plans.

• Assist the business with self-insurance and workers' compensation obligations, including audits and RTW support.

• As a Senior SME, you will seek out mentoring and coaching opportunities to build safety leadership capability across the business, as well as the HSE Advisors.

• Responsible for adhering to policies and procedures relating to safety, code of conduct, cyber, ethics and compliance. Consistently exemplify bp’s 'who we are' values along with the Safety Leadership Principles.

What you will need to be successful

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience relevant qualifications aligned to a technical in HSE, engineering or related field.

• Mid to senior level of HSE experience (ideally within a Retail, Operational, or Distributed Business).

• Proven experience in creating, managing, and optimising HSE systems.

• Knowledgeable in assessing and managing operational risk with strong analytical data skills.

• Effective and engaging verbal communicator, with the ability to deliver presentations with impact. Skilled in writing comms, procedures, training materials.

• Ability to partner with and influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes, including Senior Leaders.

• Proficiency with digital tools such as Microsoft office applications.

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft career path

• Life and health insurance, medical care package

• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting for people, Accounting for people, Agility core practices, Communication, Continuous Learning, Cost-conscious decision-making, Crisis and emergency response management, Driving and transport safety, Fire incident response, Hazard communication, Hazard Identification, Health risk management, HSE data knowledge, HSSE auditing and self-verification, Human Performance, Incident investigation and learning, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Large scale evacuation, Managing exercises and drills, OMS and bp requirements, Personal Safety, Process safety culture, Process Safety Management, Project and construction safety, Reporting and classification {+ 5 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.