Health & Safety Manager - Exploration

About Us

At Ramelius Resources, gold mining is not just what we do — it is who we are. From our early days at Wattle Dam to becoming one of Australia’s most respected gold producers, we have built our success on agility, resilience and a commitment to operational excellence.

With a strong pipeline of projects and a focus on sustainable growth, we are investing in our assets and exploration to deliver on our vision. But what truly sets us apart is our people. We foster a culture of opportunity, respect and shared ambition — when you grow, we grow.

With a portfolio of tenement packages across tier 1 Western Australian assets, the Exploration team delivers brownfields and greenfields programs focused on resource growth, reserve conversion and mine life extension. With approved investment of $90-$110 million for FY27, unlocking potential through Exploration success is at heart of our 500-horsepower growth strategy.

The Role
Supporting our vision to build a Leading Exploration Function, the newly created role of Exploration Health & Safety Manager will lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of health and safety systems, standards and practices across exploration activities. Playing a key role in the team’s strategic transformation, you will embed a proactive safety culture across the exploration function, ensuring safety is integrated into every decision, field program and operational activity.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Provide strategic leadership for health, safety and risk across the Exploration function

• Champion a culture where safety is embedded in decision-making, planning and operational execution

• Partner with Exploration leaders to integrate safety objectives into business and operational priorities

• Drive the development, implementation and continuous improvement of exploration health and safety frameworks, systems and standards

• Ensure effective governance and oversight of critical risks, compliance obligations and assurance activities

• Lead the ongoing evolution of safety performance through data-driven insights, learning and continuous improvement

• Build organisational capability by coaching leaders and fostering accountable safety leadership across the exploration workforce

• Lead and develop the Exploration Health & Safety team to deliver consistent, high-quality support across operations

• Strengthen partnerships with contractors and key stakeholders to achieve shared safety outcomes

• Influence and support the safe, sustainable growth of the Exploration function through proactive risk management and safety leadership

• Lead regulatory engagement and ensure the effective management of statutory reporting, compliance obligations and external stakeholder relationships.

  About You
  You are a strategically minded safety professional with the ability to influence, coach and lead through safety transformation. Combining strategic thinking with a practical, solutions-focused approach, you partner with leaders to manage risk, build capability and embed safety as a core part of how exploration teams operate.

You will bring:

• Tertiary qualification in Health & Safety or a related discipline

• Demonstrated safety leadership experience within exploration, resources or a comparable high-risk industry

• Strong understanding of WHS legislation, risk management, contractor management and safety governance

• Experience supporting field-based operations, including exploration, drilling, logistics and remote work environments

• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop health and safety professionals and operational leaders

• Experience implementing safety systems and leading incident investigations, audits and assurance activities

• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills across all levels of an organisation

• Statutory Schedule 26 qualification is essential

• Statutory Exploration Manager and SSE qualification would be preferred

  What We Offer

• A Perth-based leadership role with occasional travel to exploration sites

• Competitive salary with performance bonuses and additional benefits

• Strong support for your career, wellbeing and life outside of work

• The opportunity to shape health and safety capability and directly support Ramelius’ exploration growth strategy

  Next Steps We can’t wait to hear from you!
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Please note: At times, we may engage with our agency partners who have accepted terms of business in place with Ramelius. Unsolicited or speculative applications from agencies or third parties will not be accepted at this time.