Key outputs and responsibilities:


Maintain safe healthy and risk free working environment
Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
Ensure compliance the VPO Standards for the environment and safety pillars
Maintain safety and housekeeping standards Manage Human Resources
Develop employees based on identified needs through OPR sessions
Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
Manage technical pipeline for key roles in safety and environment team
Leads the management and implementation of the Safety and Environment VPO Pillar in the plant
Ensure requirements of all 23 Blocks of the Safety Pillar are implemented
Performs Safety and environment monitoring and audits
Performs regular VPO Safety and environment Pillars' audits and reviews using the Pillar Questionnaires
Performs legal Compliance Audit Monitors and analyses leading and lagging Safety and environment KPI’s and implements interventions to improve
Ensures all Safety and environment Incidents and Observations are captured and reported in Credit360
Manage the problem solving process to ensure all Safety and environment accidents/incidents are captured and reported in Credit360 and escalated as per VPO requirements
Ensures all efficient and effective problem solving and implementation of loop closure for all Safety and environment/accidents reported in Cr360 as per VPO requirements
Ensures optimum use of Safety App or equivalent system to raise Safety and environment Incidents and Observations
Performs Loss and waste analysis on Safety and environment Incident and Observations
Develops an action plan to close SIO's based on priority
Performs safety and environment monitoring using the Supervisor or Managers Check Lists Leads the safety and environment strategies as per VPO-Safety and environment Pillars
Implement Behavioral Safety Program at all levels
Implement focused safety and environment interventions for critical/priority blocks
Apply relevant Safety and environment Standards & SOPs
Develops and coordinate Safety and environment Investment Programme
Implement Safety and Environment VPO and associated GOP's
Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed
Implement E&S Dashboards and sustain derived improvement Manage small Safety and Environment site Capex Projects
Manage Safety and environment requirements during Projects execution
Project completion on time and in budget
Ensure safety and environment compliance of all new equipment during commissioning
Manage financial performance
Manage ZBB and CAPEX budgeting process for Safety and Environment
Control departmental costs
Review financial results
Manage and maximize By-product revenue Manage Safety and environment Pillar knowledge and awareness
Leads organizes and participates in World Safety and environment Day/Week and other planed safety and environment awareness activities
Shares relevant safety and environment alerts with operational teams
Mandatory training provided to all employees to ensure as per VPO Safety and environment Pillar VPO
Train all TL’s and UM’s on department-specific safety & environment requirements
Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers and Contractors
Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate training program Business Continuity & Risk Management
Develop and standardize system emergency and disaster recovery (BCP) plans for plant
Develops and implements approaches to mitigate obsolescence
Ensure sharing of best practices for Safety and environment management
Ensures implementation of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs


Minimum Requirements:


3 year appropriate tertiary qualification i.e. BSC/ BTech: Mechanical/ Electrical
South African Department of Labour issued Government Certificate of Competence or equivalent legal requirement for appointment to the appointment of responsible person for Safety and Environment
Tertiary qualification in Safety and environment Management and Auditing
Minimum 5 years experience in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods environment