Cochlear’s mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a WHS Systems Management Partner, based in our Macquarie University Campus location. Reporting to the Manager, Global Work Health & Safety, you will own and evolve Cochlear’s global WHS management system, driving consistency, compliance, and performance across diverse jurisdictions. This role ensures data integrity, identifies critical risks, and drives continuous improvement in workplace health and safety performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and evolve Cochlear’s global WHS management system, ensuring alignment with ISO 45001, legislative requirements, and enterprise risk frameworks
Govern WHS processes by maintaining and continuously improving policies, procedures, and system frameworks
Deliver risk-based insights and recommendations, enabling informed decision-making across the business
Develop and enhance WHS reporting and dashboards (e.g. Power BI), translating data into actionable insights for leadership and board-level reporting
Support audits, compliance reviews, and incident investigations—ensuring robust analysis, learning, and continuous improvement
Partner with stakeholders globally to build capability, uplift compliance, and embed best-practice safety standards
Design and support WHS training and awareness initiatives to strengthen organisational capability and accountability
What Makes This Opportunity Unique?
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and strengthen Cochlear’s global approach to workplace health and safety. You will work across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring a consistent and high-standard WHS framework that supports a world-class work environment. With the ability to make a direct impact on safety culture, you’ll help create a workplace where employees feel safe, supported, and empowered.
About You
As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality solutions and ensuring a safe and compliant workplace. To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
Experience & Expertise
Proven experience in WHS management systems, including design, implementation, and auditing
Strong working knowledge of WHS legislation and regulatory frameworks, ideally across multiple jurisdictions
Demonstrated experience partnering with mid to senior-level stakeholders in complex or matrixed organisations
Experience in data analysis and reporting, using tools such as Power BI, Excel, or similar platforms
Familiarity with ISO 45001 and its practical application in organisational settings
Capabilities
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk and make sound, evidence-based decisions
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate technical and WHS requirements into clear, actionable guidance
A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a high level of attention to detail
Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality and accuracy
A collaborative approach, with the confidence to challenge and influence where needed
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in occupational health & safety, Environmental Health, or a related field
Experience or exposure to psychosocial safety or behavioural safety frameworks is highly regarded
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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How we recognise your contribution
At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.
For more information about Life at Cochlear, visit www.cochlearcareers.com
Skills Required
- Proven experience in WHS management systems, including design, implementation, and auditing
- Strong working knowledge of WHS legislation and regulatory frameworks, ideally across multiple jurisdictions
- Demonstrated experience partnering with mid to senior-level stakeholders in complex or matrixed organisations
- Experience in data analysis and reporting, using tools such as Power BI, Excel, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with ISO 45001 and its practical application in organisational settings
- Bachelor's degree in occupational health & safety, Environmental Health, or a related field
What We Do
Hear now. And always As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss. Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear. We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it. That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing. Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear. Social Media Terms of Use http://bit.ly/2qRMEvY
