Safety Coach

Claymark Safety Coach

Part-time | Approximately 20 hours per week | Across all Claymark sites

Reports to: Health & Safety Manager

Location: Rotorua based with travel as required across all sites.

Help Build a Safer Claymark

We are seeking an experienced Safety Coach to strengthen health and safety capability through practical coaching, mentoring and constructive challenge across Claymark’s operations.

This visible, hands-on role will work alongside leaders, employees and contractors, with a key focus on ensuring training, instruction and supervision are suitable, adequate and proportionate to the work, risks and controls. The Safety Coach will build capability, improve critical controls and be a key participant in Claymark’s relationship with WorkSafe New Zealand.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor managers, supervisors and employees to strengthen leadership, capability and accountability for health and safety.

• Assess whether training, instruction and supervision are suitable and adequate

• Verify that workers are competent or are supervised by a person with the required knowledge and experience.

• Conduct site visits, safety observations and checks to confirm learning is understood and applied in practice.

• Support critical risk management, including isolation, Lockout/Tagout, machine guarding, electrical safety and hazardous energy.

• Assist with incident investigations, corrective actions and the sharing of lessons learned.

• Provide respectful, independent challenge and practical advice to operational leaders, and support clear, professional and constructive engagement between Claymark and WorkSafe New Zealand.

What You Will Bring

• Significant health and safety experience in New Zealand industry.

• Sound knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and practical workplace compliance.

• Strong coaching, mentoring and training capability, with experience assessing worker competency and the adequacy of supervision.

• Experience in manufacturing, timber processing or another high-risk environment.

• Sound judgement, professional independence and the ability to build trust quickly.

• A full New Zealand driver licence and ability to travel between sites.

Highly desirable: Previous, regulatory or enforcement experience; an electrical trade qualification; and practical experience with isolation and hazardous energy management.

About You

You will be credible, approachable and practical, with the confidence to challenge unsafe behaviour or ineffective systems respectfully. You will be organised, solutions-focused and committed to preventing harm.

Why Join Claymark

This role offers the opportunity to influence safety performance across a complex, multi-site manufacturing business and help embed practical improvements that protect our people.

How to Apply

Send your covering letter and CV to [email protected]

Applications close on 11 September 2026