Health, Safety and Wellbeing Division.
Part-time 0.6 FTE (21.75 hours per week), continuing position.
Full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $120,317.28 - $134,892.52 + 17% super (HEW Level 8).
Based at our St Lucia location .
About This Opportunity
Bring your occupational hygiene expertise to an environment where no two workplaces, hazards or challenges are quite the same.
From specialist laboratories and research facilities to workshops, teaching spaces and operational environments, UQ offers a diverse and complex workplace setting where occupational hygiene plays an important role in protecting the health and wellbeing of our community.
As our Senior Principal Consultant, Occupational Hygiene , you'll be a trusted technical specialist within UQ's Health, Safety and Wellbeing Division, providing organisation-wide advice, undertaking occupational hygiene assessments and exposure monitoring, and translating complex scientific evidence into practical, effective risk controls.
You'll work alongside a supportive and engaged team of specialist advisers across Occupational Hygiene, Radiation Safety, Hazardous Chemicals Safety and Occupational Health, bringing your expertise to a wide range of workplace health challenges.
This is an opportunity to combine technical depth with genuine variety, professional collaboration and the ability to influence how workplace health risks are understood and managed across UQ.
Key responsibilities will include:
Specialist advice and assurance: Provide authoritative technical advice on complex and high-risk occupational hygiene matters, helping stakeholders anticipate, identify, assess and control workplace health risks.
Exposure assessment and monitoring: Design and undertake occupational hygiene assessments and workplace exposure monitoring across chemical, physical and biological hazards, interpreting results and recommending practical, evidence-based controls.
Risk management and improvement: Lead and contribute to inspections, audits, investigations, health-based risk assessments, training and improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to strengthen safety practices and outcomes.
Technical leadership and collaboration: Prepare clear reports, briefings, procedures and guidance, while sharing expertise and supporting professional practice through UQ's Occupational Hygiene Community of Practice and collaborative working groups.
About You
You're an experienced occupational hygiene professional who enjoys applying specialist knowledge to real-world challenges. You bring sound technical judgement, a practical approach to risk management and the ability to build trusted relationships with people from a wide range of professional and technical backgrounds.
You'll bring:
Full membership of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH), which you will be required to maintain throughout the appointment.
Strong occupational hygiene expertise and demonstrated capability in assessing and managing workplace exposure to chemical, physical and biological hazards.
Sound knowledge of workplace health and safety principles and legislation, together with relevant Australian and international standards and codes of practice.
Demonstrated ability to plan and undertake occupational hygiene monitoring, interpret exposure data including statistical analysis where appropriate, and translate findings into practical risk controls.
Strong analytical and written communication skills, with the ability to prepare succinct, well-structured technical reports, briefings and recommendations for different audiences.
Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all organisational levels and provide trusted specialist advice on complex or high-risk matters.
A postgraduate qualification in Occupational Hygiene is desirable.
Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) status, or active progress towards achieving COH certification, is desirable.
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