Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator

Candi Solar; Randburg; Presencial; ZAR 420.000 - 620.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

Candi Solar is recruiting an ambitious Health, Safety and Environment Officer to lead HSE across its South African solar asset portfolio. The role covers policy development, incident tracking, training, and regulatory reporting, with on-site and hybrid work from Johannesburg/Durban and remote options.

The successful candidate will have 3–5 years HSE experience, relevant safety qualifications, and ISO 45001/14001 familiarity, plus willingness to travel nationally.

Formación

• Minimum 3–5 years’ HSE experience.
• Experience conducting workplace/site inspections.
• Experience working with contractors/service providers.
• Good understanding of South African OHS legislation.
• Experience with HSE documentation and reporting.
• Strong report-writing and communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Develop, implement, and maintain HSE policies and procedures.
• Track, record, and report incidents, near-misses, and safety violations.
• Coordinate safety training programs for employees.
• Prepare safety communications, newsletters, and posters.
• Maintain safety records, certifications, permits, and logs.
• Submit regulatory reports required by environmental and occupational health agencies.
• Support HSE representative with committee meetings and initiatives.
• Manage EPC and contractor HSE files and workflows.
• Conduct site inspections and ensure HSE assurance.
• Oversee incident and emergency management.
• Ensure legal and regulatory compliance; track HSE KPIs.
• Facilitate training and awareness; engage stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Incident investigation

ISO 45001 experience

ISO 14001 experience

OHS legislation knowledge

Report writing & communication

Valid driver’s license

Willingness to travel nationally

Educación

Relevant HSE/Safety qualification

SAMTRAC / relevant equivalent qualification

Descripción del empleo

Company Profile:
Candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we’re able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.

Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don’t have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns. www.candi.solar

Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit an ambitious and energetic Health, Safety and Environment Officer, who will help Candi to lead the revolution of solar. The HSE Officer will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation, coordination and monitoring of Health, Safety and Environmental requirements across the company's operational solar asset portfolio in South Africa.

Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the South African team:

• Supporting the development, implementation, and maintenance of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) policies and procedures

• Tracking, recording, and reporting all incidents, near-misses, and safety violations

• Coordinating safety training programs and ensuring that all employees are adequately trained in HSE policies and procedures
• Preparing and disseminating safety-related communications, including newsletters, bulletins, and posters

• Maintaining and updating all necessary safety records, certifications, permits, and logs
• Preparing and submitting regulatory reports and documentation required by environmental and occupational health agencies

• Providing support to the South African HSE Representative in organising safety committee meetings and implementing initiatives for employees

• Compiling and reviewing EPC and contractor HSE Files
• Asset Management HSE Administration
• Contractor & Service Provider HSE Management
• Site Inspections & HSE Assurance
• Incident & Emergency Management
• Legal & Regulatory Compliance
• HSE Reporting & KPIs
• Training & Awareness
• Stakeholder Management

Location:
Johannesburg / Durban, combined with working from home

Hours:Full time.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant HSE/Safety qualification.

- SAMTRAC / relevant equivalent qualification.

- Incident investigation experience.

- ISO 45001 experience.

- ISO 14001 experience.

• Minimum 3–5 years' HSE experience.
• Practical experience conducting workplace/site inspections.
• Experience working with contractors/service providers.
• Good understanding of South African OHS legislation.
• Experience with HSE documentation and reporting.
• Good report-writing and communication skills.
• Valid driver's licence.
• Willingness and ability to travel nationally.

Working Culture:

• You agree to live out the Candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the Candi principle that less is more.
• A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
• Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
• You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
• Candi is an equal opportunities employer.

Candi is unique because...

• We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
• We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
• We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.