Job No.: 698962
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Continuing appointment
Remuneration: $145,062 - $153,976 pa HEW Level 09 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
The Opportunity
Monash University is seeking a Manager - Contractor Safety to provide strategic leadership across its property and infrastructure portfolio. Reporting to the Director with broad autonomy, you will lead a team of four to manage contractor safety, capital works and infrastructure operations across research, teaching and residential assets.
In this role, you will champion the contractor safety management framework across the entire contractor lifecycle (in line with Monash University’s framework), embed Safety in Design principles and drive customer-focused HSW solutions. You will provide strategic contractor safety governance and assurance, maintaining overarching HSW oversight of the organisation's framework while ensuring contractors retain operational responsibility for their own systems of work.
Your focus will include leading critical risk and assurance activities, monitoring contractor performance and leveraging data to identify trends, priorities and continuous improvement opportunities. Working collaboratively across procurement, major projects, facilities/operations and contract management, you will influence key teams, manage unit budgets, direct strategic policies and engage with senior academic and external partners to achieve high-impact safety outcomes.
We are looking for a collaborative leader with postgraduate qualifications (or equivalent experience) and extensive HSW management expertise, including a proven track record of implementing or improving contractor safety frameworks in large, complex and contractor-intensive environments. Strong project management, strategic agility and high-level stakeholder negotiation skills are essential.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Paul Barton, Director, Business Support, Paul.Barton@monash.edu
Position Description: Manager - Contractor Safety
Applications Close: Wednesday 18 November 2026, 11:55pm AEDT
Please submit your application as soon as possible for this fabulous opportunity to join Monash University. Interviews will be held as strong applicants are identified. Applications will close when the role has been filled.
