Work Health & Safety Operations Lead

• Location: Darwin
• Status: Full-time – Ongoing position

About the Role:

Do you thrive in a role where you can make a valuable input that will have a meaningful impact on organisational health and safety risk and wellbeing practices and can travel within the Top End? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you! The NLC is currently recruiting for a Work Health & Safety (WH&S) Operations Lead.

This role will be overall responsible for providing guidance, support, and coaching to internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance and knowledge capabilities are strengthened around the wellbeing, health, safety @ work (WH&S@W) risk process. Furthermore, it will contribute to enhancing a safety-first and collaborative culture at the NLC.

What You Will Bring:

A background that demonstrates you are highly experienced in managing and maintaining all facets of work, wellbeing, health and safety matters; however, you will work within a dedicated WH&S team.

Abilities to coach and mentor supervisors in a collaborative manner to develop their WH&S@W knowledge is essential. Experience in facilitating risk workshops and, assisting in the development of safety process to build proactive risk management skills in staff is a must.  Being interpersonal and hold strong cross-cultural competency and stakeholder engagement skills is required. Understanding key process in emergency management and, incident, injury and workers compensation case management is a requirement. Having strong analytical skills and attention to detail is needed

If you are keen to be part of making change through, innovative thinking, healthy and safe team collaboration, managing risks or incidents with a natural curiosity and, your continual view is to make improvement then this might be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

In addition to this, you will have: 

• Certificate IV in WH&S and minimum of 5 years’ practical experience/ Or minimum 8 years’ practical experience in a similar role.
• Proven experience implementing and administering WH&S management systems, managing incidents including investigations and workers compensation
• High level cross-cultural, interpersonal and verbal communication skills with an ability to effectively liaise, engage and coordinate across an array of stakeholders (internal and external organisation) to build productive working relationships
• Current Full NT drivers’ licence and the ability and willingness to travel remotely via 4WD and light aircraft

For a full copy of the Position Description refer to the link provided below.

What’s in it for you?

NLC offers competitive and attractive remuneration, work life balance and a unique opportunity to support our Aboriginal communities in the NLC Region.

We offer:

• A base salary of $119,571 per annum plus 15% superannuation paid on Base and District Allowance
• Salary sacrificing up to $15,900 + Meal Entertainment and Holiday Accommodation benefit up to $2,650 per year. 
• Other benefits under our Enterprise Agreement include
  • District allowance of up to $4,884 (DA2) per annum for individuals with dependents and $2,678 (DA1) without dependents. More for regional area staff
  • Generous leave provisions 5 weeks annual leave, 18 days personal leave;
  • Paid Christmas close down;
  • Upon completion of 12 months of service an Annual airfare with a net (in hand) value of $3,177

Interested applicants should send a copy of their CV along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in this position and what experience you bring.

If you have any further queries, please contact: Matt Ryan 0428 014 599

Applications Close:  Monday 7 September 2026

About the NLC 
The Northern Land Council (NLC) is an independent statutory authority of the Commonwealth. The NLC is established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) 1976 and its purpose is to serve its constituents who are Traditional Owners (TOs) and other Aboriginal people living in their region.  Cultural knowledge and lived experience are central to the work that we do here at NLC.  We are committed to enhancing Aboriginal peoples social, political and economic participation by supporting their aspirations and amplifying their voices on a range of issues impacting on their lands, seas, culture and communities.