Investigation Specialist - Risk & Compliance

Westgold Resources is shaping the future of gold mining in Western Australia. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join our team who share our vision of building a sustainable and profitable major Australian gold business.

Permanent Full-Time | Perth Head Office

We are seeking an experienced Investigation Specialist - Risk & Compliance to lead and facilitate high‑quality investigations across our operations. This role plays a critical part in strengthening organisational learning, improving control effectiveness, and ensuring serious incidents are investigated consistently, ethically, and to a high professional standard.

Based at our Perth Head Office, this role will involve travel to operational sites as required and acts as a trusted, independent specialist supporting leaders, safety, risk and compliance stakeholders across the business.

About The Role

• Lead and facilitate complex incident and compliance investigations using ICAM or equivalent methodologies.
• Provide expert guidance in investigation planning, evidence gathering, interviewing, analysis and report writing.
• Ensure investigations focus on systemic factors and control effectiveness, not individual blame.
• Review and quality‑assure investigation outputs for executive and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver investigation training and coach leaders and subject matter experts.
• Analyse investigation trends and translate insights into practical, business‑wide improvements.
• Support sensitive, high‑profile or regulator‑facing investigations.
• Travel to sites as required to support investigations and stakeholder engagement.

About You

• Demonstrated experience leading or facilitating complex workplace investigations.
• Formal training in investigation methodologies (ICAM, TapRooT, Tripod, Root Cause Analysis or similar).
• Strong evidence collection, interviewing and analytical skills.
• Excellent report writing skills, with clear and defensible conclusions.
• The ability to challenge constructively and maintain objectivity in high‑consequence matters.
• Experience in risk‑based, regulated or high‑hazard environments (desirable).

Backgrounds in safety, compliance, human factors, engineering, aviation, rail, defence, policing or similar investigation‑led disciplines will be highly regarded.

What We Offer

• Permanent, full‑time role based at our Perth Head Office.
• Opportunity to influence investigation quality and organisational learning at a group level.
• Exposure to complex, meaningful investigations with executive visibility.
• Collaborative, values‑driven culture focused on safety and continuous improvement.

The Westgold Offer

A Range Of Benefits Including

• A permanent full-time position at a successful gold producer.
• Performance based bonus.
• Group salary continuous insurance.
• A health and wellness allowance.
• Health insurance discount.
• A range of Family and Medical leave policies that include IVF, surrogacy and adoption.
• Referral Bonus – bring your mates along!
• 5 years' pro rata long service leave.
• Salary sacrifice options.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that includes free confidential counselling, wellbeing services that include financial advice.

Our full list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by Work 180 can be found on the Work180 website.

Westgold is driven by our core values of Show Respect, Choose Safety and Deliver Value. We believe that these values define our culture, behaviours and actions.

We appreciate that not everybody will tick every box for their next dream role, but if you believe that you can bring the passion and drive to contribute to our operations and our values resonate with you then apply now!

Candidates must meet our pre‑employment criteria which includes medical and drug and alcohol screening, relevant right to work checks and be able to provide a valid Australian national police clearance and an Australian driver's licence (or be able to obtain).

Westgold is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone matters. We believe diversity is a strength and true diversity includes those from First Nations People, various cultures, age groups, Neurodiverse backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, diverse abilities and religions. We value the unique perspectives and experiences each person brings and that diverse teams lead to innovation and success. Our goal is to have safe and respectful environments where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and we strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Westgold appreciates that standard recruitment processes are not accessible for everyone. If you require additional support or accommodations so you feel comfortable participating in our recruitment process for this or any of our roles, please feel free to email .

Westgold reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. We will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.

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