Key roles 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 – ES Controller
• 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 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 Programmed
• 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
• ESL 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 UMs on department-specific safety & environment requirements
• Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers, seasonal employees and Contractors
• Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate Training programs/initiatives/solutions – 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 & departmental coordination of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs
• Manage Safety, Upholding (UPP) and Cost CAPEX portfolios
• Ensure a 3-year plan exists for, – Maintenance and replacement of Plant Equipment across Sites – Maintenance and replacement of C&A infrastructure due to obsolescence
• Indicate primary challenges presented by this job and the kinds of decision that the position is expected to make
• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Lead the establishment of a SAFETY-FIRST culture through implementation of behavioral safety program
• Ensure delivery of results through implementation of VPO standards and relevant safety and environment SOPs
• Manage departmental Budget / Finances
• Lead safety in site projects execution defining minimum requirements at all stages and monitoring compliance during planning and execution thereof
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
• Manage the Safety and Environment function including Operations and Maintenance of Effluent tank and screen
• Lead the elimination of all identified safety and environment risks through sharing safety alerts and driving closure of identified gaps from problem solving and incident and accident investigations.
• Create a Safety and environment awareness through planned and unplanned campaigns such as World environment/Safety Day activities
• Lead the risk management program, comprising of occupational health and safety and risk management
• Ensure plant’s legal compliance and adherence to legal standards/regulations
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Lead the Safety and environment team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of Safety and environment team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular Safety and environment team goal review sessions
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 year appropriate tertiary qualification, i.e. B Tech: Mechanical or Electrical, BSc Mechanical or Electrical.
• Must have a GCC.
• Tertiary qualification in Safety and environment Management and Auditing.
• Successful Completed sab trainee program (Brewing, Packaging, Logistics, Maintenance or E&F).
• South African Department of Labour issued Government Certificate of Competence or equivalent legal requirement for appointment to the position of responsible person for Safety and environment.
• Minimum 5 years experience in a Fast Moving Consumer Goods environment
• Experience in both safety and environment management.
• 3-5 years experience in either Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller role.