EHS Coordinator

PepsiCo; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking an EHS professional at the Brito’s Plant in Gqeberha to support the EHS Site Manager in safeguarding employee safety and ensuring compliance with the OHS Act and PepsiCo standards. You will coordinate committees, maintain records, and drive risk reduction initiatives across manufacturing and warehousing.

You will review risk assessments, manage training, and lead emergency drills while ensuring statutory compliance and documentation retention.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 plus a 3-year Diploma in EHS-related field.
• ISO 14001 implementation and/or auditing.
• Safety management competencies across sites and operations.
• 5 years in FMCG either in engineering or production, or EHS role.

Responsibilities

• Schedule and manage EHS Committee meetings at Brito’s Plant – Manufacturing & Warehousing.
• Conduct monthly & annual EHS Steering Group meetings with the senior team.
• Maintain EHS records, minutes, and action trackers for incidents and audits.
• Ensure near-miss reporting and timely action plans across the plant.
• Review and maintain Risk Assessments and action plans.
• Ensure compliance with the COIDA Act and training records.
• Maintain training matrix and conduct follow-up training as scheduled.
• Manage GEHSMS program and plan emergency drills.
• Ensure document retention and compliance with internal and statutory requirements.
• Drive sustainability initiatives and awareness campaigns for the site.

Skills

Safety management

ISO 14001

FMCG experience

Education

Grade 12

Diploma in EHS

Job description

Overview

To assist the EHS Site Manager and site management to ensure employee safety by ensuring that all risks in the workplace are identified, evaluated and controlled, in a manner that also complies with the OHS Act and PEPSICO international standards. To also ensure that PepsiCo complies with all the National Environmental Standards.

Responsibilities

• Scheduling/Managing of respective SHE Committee meetings in the Brito’s Plant – Manufacturing & Warehousing
• Conduct monthly & annual EHS Steering Group meetings with the senior team.
• Review and approve the minutes of the meetings and maintaining the records for continuous or future reference.
• Maintain the EHS action tracker on a daily and weekly basis which include accident reports, non-conformance reports, hazard reports, all related inspections.
• Ensure Near misses are recorded as well as action plans addressed providing visibility to the entire plant on progress in this regard.
• Ensure Risk Assessments are reviewed, maintained and action plans managed accordingly.
• Ensure compliance to the COIDA Act.
• Ensure training records of all critical tasks and safe working practices are kept.
• Ensure training matrix is updated and follow up training done as scheduled.
• Maintenance of the GEHSMS program, ensuring compliance to all applicable standards.
• Plan and lead the emergency drills.
• Ensure policies and procedures are reviewed timeously and required updates effected.
• Ensure that documents are stored & preserved in terms of any internal and statutory requirements for the required retention periods as applicable.
• Management of MyEHS ensuring adherence to items such as but not limited to gatekeeping, effectiveness review, action plan creations, submission of self-Assessments, Confirmation on completion of compliance tasks,
• Review and ensure EHS Induction material is accurate and check effectiveness of the assessment.
• Ensuring compliance to the Wastewater treatment plant and Waste management areas
• Planning and facilitating risk assessments
• Plan and leadEHS awarenesscampaigns for the site
• Ensure EHS AOP for the site is achieved which includes but not limited to recorded incidents, waste, MESS amongst other KPI’s.
• Drive culture and capability initiatives such as Townhalls, Round tables, campaigns and behavioral transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate and manage FM Global compliance and accreditations.
• Ensure progress against plans on MESS remedial work as well as assessments.
• Drive sustainability initiatives such as AWS, ReCon

Qualifications

• Grade 12 + 3-year Diploma in EHS related field as a minimum qualification
• ISO 14001 implementation and/ or auditing
• Safety management
• 5 years in FMCG either in engineering or production, or EHS role