Health Safety & Environment Manager (Manufacturing)

Bridgestone EMEA; Brits; On-site; ZAR 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive sector seeks a qualified HSE Manager for their Brits plant. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining health, safety, and environmental strategies, ensuring legal compliance, and fostering a culture of safety. Interested candidates with a strong background in HSE management are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

Supportive onboarding experience

Opportunity for development and growth

Corporate Social Responsibility activities

Dynamic and challenging work environment

Diverse and inclusive team

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in HSE Management Systems.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the automotive industry.
• 4 Years Leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HSE strategies and policies.
• Coordinate HSE activities and audits across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements.

Skills

Initiative

Effective communication skills

Strong analytical skills

Leadership skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Health/Environmental/Safety management

Certification in SAMTRAC/SHEMTRAC

ISO 14001 & 5001 certification

Job description

POSITION SNAPSHOT

JobReq ID: 54025

Type of work: On site

Type of contract: Open-ended/permanent

Full/Part Time: Full time

Location:

Brits, ZA

About Us

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

About The Role

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Manager to join our Brits Manufacturing plant in South Africa. This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining HSE standards and strategies. This role ensures compliance with legal requirements, mitigates occupational, environmental, and quality risks, and promotes continuous improvement in HSE performance. The HSE Manager coordinates activities, conducts audits, and fosters a culture of safety and environmental responsibility across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that HSE operational standards are established, implemented, maintained and address the areas of occupational, environmental and quality risk
• Ensuring that incident/accident reporting is adequate and effective in addressing risk and adequate in terminating or reducing the exposed risk
• Coordinate HSE activities and report on the performance to the company
• Develop, implement and monitor HSE strategies, policies and programmes that promote better ways to ensure the success of the organization for all stakeholders
• Coordinate the identification of significant environmental impacts, Occupational Safety and Health Risk’s, Quality defects, and examine corporate activities to establish where and how improvements can be made and ensure compliance with HSE legislation and other requirements across the organisation.
• Coordinate the management of continuous improvement within the HSE organization by ensuring that operational standards are established, implemented and maintained and that rigorous processes continually improving the provision of service, quality of process and product, and the mitigation safety, health and environment risk are followed.
• Review the HSE systems and operations, carrying out HSE audits and assessments, identifying and effectively resolving HSE non-conformities and acting as agent of change
• Advise in the selection of skills and education programmes for employees at all levels and affirm that the workforce recognize their own contributions to improved HSE performance.
• Coordinate, implement and maintain strategies to protect and reduce loss of assets through good Security Management in line with applicable legislation and other requirements in a continual changing insecure environment.
• Ensuring compliance to Legal requirements.
  
  
  

Qualifications & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Health/Environmental/Safety management or related qualification
• Certification in SAMTRAC/SHEMTRAC
• Qualified Lead Internal Auditor would be beneficial
• ISO 14001 & 5001 certification
• GMR2 certificate would be beneficial
  
  
  

Experience (years):

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in HSE Management Systems
• Working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in the automotive industry would be beneficial
• 4 Years Leadership experience
  
  
  

Skills Requirements:

• Initiative/creativity/innovation – proactive approach, generates ideas for improvement of systems, ability to take initiative and execute tasks creatively to result in a competitive edge and differentiated way of operating
• Agility- adhere to acceptable time keeping practices
• Effective planning and implementation – prioritize between more and less critical activities
• Positive momentum and solid work ethic
• Strong business principles
• Effective communication skills - ability to inspire and direct action for achieving results
• Up-skilling and multi-skilling of subordinates
• Effective budget control
• Thoroughness, attention to detail, accuracy and punctuality is essential
• The ability to operate in a matrix structure
• Strong Cross functional approach
• Strong analytical, Technical, diagnostic and Mechanical insight
• Negotiation and leadership skills
  
  
  

What We Offer

At Bridgestone, what really matter is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive payment; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.
  
  
  

We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.