Permanent - SHE Officer - Nelson Mandela Metropole (Gqeberha Port Elizabeth) - South Africa

Province: Eastern Cape

Job Description

Reporting to: Compliance Manager

Job Purpose:

To act as the representative of SHE Policies, Procedures, Standards, Work instructions, SOP/SWPs and ambassador on each work shift and render excellent SHE services to all employees for the duration of your respective shift. The go-to person for SHE on the shift.

Key Performance Areas

1. Business Protection (20%)
2. Health & Safety Management (20%)
3. Environmental Management (25%)
4. Energy Management (10%)
5. Risk Management (10%)
6. People Management (0%)
7. Other (5%)

Key Performance areas:

Business Protection: Maintain and drive compliance with current regulatory, ISO and Legal Compliance Audit Requirements for all company sites.

Health & Safety Management: Provide a comprehensive SHEE consulting service and advice to the manufacturing plants in consultation with the SHEEQ.

Participate, investigate and report on incidents in the workplace and devise and implement strategies for preventative measures.

Conduct regular HIRA (Hazard Identification & Risk Assessments) and take actions to eliminate, as well as environmental aspects and impact assessments and update SWP’s and SOP’s; set up regular meetings to close-out such findings towards continuous improvement.

Assist with annual SHEE induction on all employees and do incidental SHEE Induction throughout the year, as well as training of employees.

Compile and participate in new safety programs to continuously improve the SHEE standard and culture of all areas.

Practice safe working techniques and implement such via safety bulletins, toolbox talks, etc.

Implement and maintain health and safety standards on a continuous basis to reduce the likelihood of incidents.

Set an example by maintaining and enforcing compliance with all safety regulations.

Standardize health and safety in order to remain consistent.

Compile and maintain all relevant compliance registers to ensure compliance.

Perform regular inspections of equipment in line with HSE, e.g. ladders, racks, forklifts, PPE, machinery, equipment, facilities, tools, etc., and take precautionary measures to eliminate injury (Daily, Weekly, Fortnightly, and Monthly inspections).

Request, enforce, and inspect contractor Health and Safety Files readiness and drive compliance.

Issuing of work permits to staff and contractors.

Environmental Management: Ensuring that the processes needed for the Environment Management System are implemented and maintained as per legislation and in accordance with ISO.

Energy Management: Support the plant energy efficient plan to continuously reduce the overall consumption of energy.

Risk Management: Compliance with current legislation, standards, and Legal Requirements.

Ensure risk assessment for all departments are validated as part of the planned monthly HSE inspections/walkabouts.

Ensure Risk Assessments for all contractor jobs are reviewed and complied with before commencement of actual work.

People Management/Support: Support people management initiatives to facilitate the readiness of information, storage, meeting SHEEQ deadlines, consolidating training.

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Safety Management (preferable) or equivalent and/or at least SAMTRAC.
• OHS Act, ISO, Environmental, Noise & Energy– knowledge of requirements.
• Knowledge of all relevant safety systems and procedures.

Advantageous:

• Tertiary studies in SHE field, i.e. Safety Management or Environmental or equivalent.
• OHS Act, ISO, Environmental, Noise & Energy related training or work experience.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in a manufacturing or related field.

Additional Advantageous:

• Previous working experience in a battery manufacturing facility.
• Knowledge of OHSAct.
• Qualifications in ISO 9001/14001/45001 (advantageous).
• National Regulations and ByLaws – working knowledge (advantageous).

Skills/Attributes/Abilities:

• Computer Literate – MS Office at least.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Team player.
• Hard working, ability to think and be innovative; with ideas generation.
• Work effectively without supervision.
• Drive for results.
• Working with all types of people/attitudes.

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