HSE Business Partner

A.P. Moller - Maersk; Durban; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Maersk is seeking HSE Business Partners to be based at our offices in Durban and Cape Town with oversight across multiple sites. The role focuses on strategy, governance and continuous safety improvement within a large, international logistics environment.

Ideal candidates bring a National Diploma in Safety with 7+ years in warehousing and distribution HSE roles, strong regulatory knowledge and professional registrations. Excellent leadership and coaching skills are essential.

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Safety and/or Environmental Management and/or Risk Management or Equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a warehousing and distribution environment in a full-time health & safety and environment role, across multiple sites.
• Certificate in safety management (SHEMTRAC, SAMTRAC, NEBOSH IGC, etc)
• Professional registration with SAIOSH and SACPCMP (Advantageous).
• Practical understanding of ISO 14001, 9001 & 45001.
• Extensive knowledge of the OHS Act & Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Drive implementation of the HSE strategy across sites with strategic leadership.
• Partner with Site Leads to embed HSE into daily operations.
• Lead risk assessments, SWIs, MOC and risk reduction plans.
• Ensure compliance with HSE standards and South African legislation.
• Conduct HSE audits, inspections and incident investigations.
• Monitor HSE indicators and report performance to management.
• Coach Site Leads and Safety Champions; facilitate training.
• Oversee contractor HSE compliance and PTW requirements.
• Coordinate emergency preparedness and drills.
• Promote continuous improvement and standardisation across sites.

Skills

HSE Leadership

Risk Management

Auditing

Compliance

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

National Diploma in Safety

Job description

Would you like to be part of a value-driven, commercially oriented international environment where we enable global trade every day?

We are recruiting HSE Business Partners to be based at our offices in Durban and Cape Town and have oversight of sites across both locations.

WHAT WE OFFER:

When you join Maersk, you’ll find that the world is your workplace. You’ll work in a culturally diverse, stimulating environment, surrounded by new ideas and different ways of doing things. We believe in individual performance within highly professional teams supported by our distinctive values. To us teamwork means acceptance, respect, dedication, and the idea that we can achieve more when we all pull together.

Living our values means competing in the marketplace in an ethical way so our name is synonymous with being a credible and valuable business partner. Through Constant Care and Humbleness, we strive to prepare for the future, while never forgetting that our customers and competitors are key to our ability to improve. In our daily work, Uprightness and Our Employees mean that transparency and accountability in everything we do go hand in hand with being an inspiring, challenging place to work. At Maersk, we take pride in hiring the best person for the job – irrespective of gender, age, nationality, or religious belief.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

HSE Strategy & Leadership:

• Drive implementation of the company’s HSE strategy across assigned sites, providing strategic leadership, specialist guidance and direction aligned with the organisation’s growth and operational objectives.

Operational HSE Integration:

• Partner with Site Leads, Safety Champions and operational management to embed HSE into daily operations and promote safety as an integral part of operational excellence.

Governance and Risk Management:

• Lead the identification, assessment and control of significant operational risks in accordance with the Maersk HSSE management framework.
• Review and approve/recommend risk assessments, Critical Task Analyses, Safe Work Instructions (SWIs), Risk Reduction Plans and Management of Change (MOC) requirements.

Compliance & Legal Assurance:

• Ensure compliance with company HSE standards, policies, procedures and applicable South African legislation.
• Maintain statutory appointments, registers, inspections, training and legal records, including liaison with the Department of Employment and Labour where required.

HSE Auditing & Assurance:

• Conduct HSE audits, inspections, Gemba walks and assurance reviews across assigned sites.
• Identify non-conformances, monitor corrective actions and drive continuous improvement to maintain an audit-ready management system aligned with ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 requirements.

Incident & Corrective Action Management:

• Lead and/or facilitate incident, accident and near-miss investigations using appropriate root-cause analysis methodologies.
• Ensure corrective and preventative actions are assigned, tracked and closed effectively, including monitoring non-conformances on the Fatal5 system.

Performance Management & Reporting:

• Monitor leading and lagging HSE indicators, analyse trends and recurring risks, and provide management with actionable recommendations.
• Compile and present monthly HSE performance and risk reports and track performance against objectives and improvement plans.

Training, Coaching & Competency:

• Coach and support Site Leads and Safety Champions, facilitate HSE training and awareness programmes, identify competency gaps and promote learning through incidents, audits, inspections and lessons learned.

Contractor & Permit-to-Work Management:

• Monitor contractor HSE compliance, including risk assessments, method statements, documentation and Permit-to-Work (PTW) requirements.
• Conduct contractor inspections and audits where required.

Emergency Preparedness:

• Ensure effective, site-specific Emergency Response Plans are implemented, communicated and regularly reviewed.
• Coordinate emergency drills, exercises, equipment readiness and lessons-learned activities.

Traffic & Workplace Safety:

• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of site-specific Traffic Management Plans (TMPs), workplace safety controls, legal appointments and other critical operational safety requirements.

Continuous Improvement & Standardisation:

• Drive consistent HSE standards across sites while recognising site-specific risks and operational differences. Promote 5S, standardisation, benchmarking, best-practice sharing and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build strong working relationships with operational leadership and key stakeholders, provide timely HSE advice, challenge unsafe practices and support a proactive, accountable and high-performing safety culture.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Someone with:

• National Diploma in Safety and/or Environmental Management and/or Risk Management or Equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a warehousing and distribution environment in a full-time health & safety and environment role, across multiple sites.
• Certificate in safety management (SHEMTRAC, SAMTRAC, NEBOSH IGC, etc)
• Professional registration with SAIOSH and SACPCMP (Advantageous).
• Practical understanding of the implementation and maintenance of ISO 14001, 9001 & 45001.
• Extensive knowledge of the OHS Act & Regulations.

Required Attributes:

• Coaching and mentoring – identify training needs for Site Leads, Safety Champions and operational teams.
• Accountability and ownership – challenge and drive action where HSE standards are not being met.
• Decision-making – ability to make sound, risk-based decisions in complex operational environments.
• Problem-solving – identify root causes and develop practical solutions.
• Change management – lead and embed HSE improvements across multiple sites.
• Continuous improvement mindset – identify opportunities to improve systems, processes and performance.

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