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Compliance and Sustainability Officer

Location: Sydney

Business Area: Rock Processing Australia

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Reports to: Financial Controller

Working rights: You must be able to secure valid work rights for employment in Australia.

Closing Date: Applications will close on 31 December 2025 or sooner if a suitable candidate is identified.

At Sandvik Rock Processing Australia, we believe diverse perspectives drive better decisions, strong governance, and a more sustainable future. We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels inspired, valued, and empowered to lead with confidence.

If you’re passionate about ethical business, sustainability, and helping people do their best work within a supportive environment, we’d love to welcome you into our team.

Note: This is a newly created, hands-on role designed for an individual contributor - not a team management role.

What You’ll Do:

  • Regulatory & Compliance: Ensure adherence to compliance frameworks (Trade, ABC, Competition Law, Data Privacy, Digital) and guide teams on legislative changes and practical process updates.

  • Risk Management & Governance: Coordinate the ERM process, assess risks, and support climate-related risk analysis to strengthen governance and strategic planning.

  • Internal Controls: Support the Sandvik Risk & Control Matrix to maintain strong governance standards.

  • Climate Reporting: Lead data collection for Scope 1–3 emissions and prepare required climate disclosures aligned with legislation and global sustainability goals.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and teams, providing clear insights and updates on compliance, risk, and governance matters.

  • Various administrative tasks, including checklists and reporting requirements for head office

What We’re Looking For:

  • Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Law, Business, Finance, Sustainability or a related field.

  • Experience: Proven experience in compliance, risk management, sustainability reporting or governance.

  • Skills: Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

  • Approach: Self-driven, proactive, and able to work independently, while collaborating effectively with others.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

  • Supportive and Inclusive Culture: Join a team that values collaboration, respect, and diversity.

  • Career Development: We invest in your professional growth and create opportunities to advance your career.

  • Work-life Balance: We understand the importance of flexibility.

  • Health and Wellbeing: Access to health and wellness programs, including mental health support.

  • Leadership Support: Learn and connect with experienced professionals who are invested in your success.

  • Family-Friendly Policies: We offer paid parental leave, and other initiatives to support working parents.

  • Employee Benefit programs: including discounts program, salary sacrifice options and length of service recognition.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: A place where we are all welcome:

At Sandvik, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, and we encourage applications from women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Sandvik Rock Processing Australia is proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace, and you can explore our policies and employee benefits on the WORK180 website: Sandvik Rock Processing Australia

The recruitment process:

As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email from Alva Labs to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins afterwards.

Our hiring managers are trained in anti-bias practices, and we use structured interviews to ensure every candidate is assessed consistently.

We aim to be transparent and alleviate the stress of recruitment. If you have any concerns, please know that we are here to support you throughout the application process. We wish you the best of luck with your application.

About Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions:

We are a leading provider of eco-efficient rock processing solutions. Leveraging more than 160 years of engineering excellence, we help our customers optimise their comminution and material handling operations for maximum performance, safety, and efficiency.

We apply our profound industry expertise in crushing, screening, feeding, loading and wear protection, to bring an unrivalled equipment line-up to the market. This unique offering is underpinned by our expert process knowledge, full range of digital tools, high-quality OEM spare parts, consumables, and life-cycle services.

Employing around 3000 professionals worldwide, Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is a business area of the global, high-tech engineering group Sandvik. In 2024, the group had approximately 41,000 employees, sales in more than 150 countries and revenues of about SEK 123 billion.

Further information

As part of our commitment to safety, we may require national police check and other applicable security, medical, and character requirements for this position.

For more information, please visit https://www.home.sandvik/

How to Apply:

Sounds like the right role for you? Please apply today with your current resume or curriculum vitae.

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