SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

AB InBev Africa; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

AB InBev Africa is seeking a Safety and Environment Manager to ensure compliance with safety and environment regulations at their Gqeberha plant. The role involves auditing, managing compliance reports, and fostering a safe working environment. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in FMCG contexts, alongside strong leadership and training capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience as Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller.
• 3 year appropriate tertiary qualification.
• Experience in safety and environment management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance with safety and environmental legislation.
• Lead safety and environment training programs.
• Manage safety and environment site CAPEX projects.

Skills

Compliance

Hazard Identification

Environmental Risk Management

Safety Audit

Leadership

Training

Communication

Education

BSc/BTech: Mechanical or Electrical

Tertiary qualification in Safety and Environment Management

Government Certificate of Competence

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of this role is to provide the plant with a comprehensive and professional environment and occupational health and safety system. Ensuring compliance to environment and safety systems, standards and work practices to achieve targets set for the VPO environment and safety pillars as well as the environment and safety KPI’s.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment

• Ensure safety, health & environmental legislation compliance
• Ensure compliance the VPO Standards for the environment and safety pillars
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
  
  

Manage Human Resources

• Develop employees based on identified needs through OPR sessions
• Ensure a healthy industrial relations climate
• Manage technical pipeline for key roles in safety and environment team
• Support apprenticeship and artisan development for site
  
  

Leads the management and implementation of the Safety and Environment VPO Pillar in the plant

• Ensure all requirements of the VPO Safety Pillar are implemented
• Performs Safety and environment monitoring and audits
• Performs regular VPO Safety and environment Pillars' audits and reviews using the Pillar Questionnaires
• Performs legal Compliance Audit
• Monitors and analyses leading and lagging Safety and Environment KPI’s and implements interventions to improve
• Ensures all Safety and Environmental Incidents and Observations are captured and reported in Credit360
• Manage the problem-solving process to ensure all Safety and environment accidents/incidents are captured and reported in Credit360 and escalated as per VPO requirements
• Ensures all efficient and effective problem solving and implementation of loop closure for all Safety and environment/accidents reported in Cr360 as per VPO requirements.
• Ensures optimum use of Safety App or equivalent system to raise Safety and environment Incidents and Observations
• Performs Loss and waste analysis on Safety and Environment Incident and Observations.
• Develops an action plan to close SIO's based on priority
• Performs safety and environment monitoring using the Supervisor or Managers Check Lists
  
  

Leads the safety and environment strategies as per VPO-Safety and Environment Pillars

• Implement behavioral Safety Program at all levels
• Implement focused safety and environment interventions for critical/priority blocks
• Apply relevant Safety and environment Standards & SOPs
• Develops and coordinate Safety and Environment Programs
• Implement Safety and Environment VPO and associated GOP's
• Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed
• Implement E&S Dashboards and sustain improvements derived
  
  

Manage Safety and Environment site Capex Projects

• Mange Safety and environment requirements during projects execution
• Project completion on time and in budget
• Ensure safety and environment compliance of all new equipment during commissioning
  
  

Manage financial performance

• Manage ZBB and CAPEX budgeting process for Safety and Environment
• Control departmental costs
• Review financial results
• Manage and maximize By-product revenue
  
  

Manage Safety and Environment Pillar knowledge and awareness

• Leads organize and participate in World Safety and Environment Day/Week and other planned safety and environment awareness activities
• Shares relevant safety and environment alerts with operational teams
• Mandatory training provided to all employees to ensure as per VPO Safety and environment Pillar VPO
• Train all TL’s and UM’s on department-specific safety & environmental requirements
• Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers and Contractors
• Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate training program
  
  

Business Continuity & Risk Management

• Develop and standardize system emergency and disaster recovery (BCP) plans for plant
• Develops and implements approaches to mitigate obsolescence
• Ensure sharing of best practices for Safety and environment management
• Ensures implementation of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs
• Develops, prioritizes and implements recommendations arising from all insurance audits including GRC
  
  

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Tertiary qualification in Safety and Environment Management and Auditing
• Successful Completed ABInBev trainee program (Brewing, Packaging, Logistics, Maintenance or E&F.)
• Experience in both safety and environment management
• 3-5 years experience in either Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller role
  
  

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 year appropriate tertiary qualification, i.e. BSc/BTech: Mechanical or Electrical
• South African Department of Labour issued Government Certificate of Competence or equivalent legal requirement for appointment to the position of responsible person for Safety and environment
• Minimum 5 years experience in a FMCG environment
  
  

Additional Information:

• Band: VI
  
  

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional / relevant information as criteria for short-listing.