Senior HSEQ Business Partner

Arup; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the built environment is seeking a Senior HSEQ Business Partner for its Johannesburg office. This role requires strong leadership skills in Health, Safety, and Quality Management and involves collaborating with various project teams to promote a positive safety culture and ensure compliance across regional offices.

Benefits

Medical aid

Hospital gap cover

Retirement savings (provident fund)

Life insurance

Income protection in case of disability

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in professional services or built environment.
• Commitment to developing knowledge across all HSEQ disciplines.
• A positive, collaborative attitude with a methodical approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement Health, Safety, Wellbeing, and Quality Management Systems.
• Train project teams and provide technical H&S input.
• Conduct audits and inspections to ensure compliance.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Influencing

Management skills

Education

NEBOSH International General Certificate

Lead auditor certifications in ISO 9001, ISO 45001, or ISO 14001

Professional qualifications in Quality, H&S, or Environmental Management

Job description

Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Arup is an independent multidisciplinary firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today’s built environment. Together, we help our clients solve their most complex challenges—turning exciting ideas into tangible realities as we strive to find better ways and shape a better world.

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The Opportunity

Our UKIMEA region is seeking a Senior HSEQ Business Partner for our South Africa offices. The role involves leading, establishing, implementing, coordinating, and championing activities related to the Health, Safety, Wellbeing, and Quality Management Systems across our offices in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg, as well as project locations. This senior operational role offers the opportunity to shape and influence practices and outcomes, requiring strong communication, influencing, and collaboration skills. The role involves daily interaction with project managers, directors, and leaders, working with regional and global HSEQ teams. Responsibilities include training, reporting, auditing, continuous improvement, and promoting a positive safety culture at all levels.

Location

Johannesburg

Health, Safety, and Wellbeing

• Promote a culture of care where safety is everyone's responsibility, advising and coaching leadership on health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Assist project teams in establishing health and safety arrangements, including plans, procedures, and systems.
• Provide technical H&S input into new bids, helping project teams identify appropriate H&S resources.
• Champion design safety by partnering with project teams to integrate safety frameworks into designs.
• Offer health and safety advice and risk management services to ensure legislative compliance, including supporting the appointment and training of Principal Designers and Design Safety Advisors.
• Provide consistent safety advice for bids and projects.
• Develop, implement, and review H&S processes and deliverables, such as risk assessments, management plans, and frameworks to ensure safe systems of work.
• Lead investigations into serious incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Quality Management

• Deliver quality work using our management systems and quality checks.
• Support internal audits and inspections, leading on complex or high-risk audits as needed.
• Consolidate audit findings across regions, present insights to leadership, and lead discussions on mitigation strategies.
• Establish assurance programs for projects, including conducting H&S audits and inspections to ensure safe practices and compliance.
• Manage governance processes related to subcontractor and consultant H&S roles.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective where individuality thrives. Our strength comes from respecting, sharing, and connecting diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do meaningful, socially useful work that benefits Arup, your career, our members, clients, and communities.

Candidate Profile

We seek candidates with:

• Senior-level experience in professional services or the built environment in a Quality, H&S, or Environmental role.
• Professional qualifications in at least one discipline: Quality, H&S, or Environmental Management.
• Lead auditor certifications in ISO 9001, ISO 45001, or ISO 14001.
• NEBOSH International General Certificate.
• A positive, collaborative attitude.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A methodical yet flexible approach.
• Management skills with a hands-on style.
• Attention to detail with focus on outcomes.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Influencing skills at all levels.
• Willingness and ability to travel.
• Commitment to developing knowledge across all HSEQ disciplines.

The following credentials are preferred:

• Chartered status or registration in Quality, H&S, or Environmental fields.

What We Offer

At Arup, we prioritize each member’s success to grow together. We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom and responsibility to set our own direction and choose meaningful work. Our profit share allows members to share in our collective success.

We provide an environment that fosters purposeful design, skill development, and knowledge sharing. You will have the chance to use your expertise to improve communities through Arup’s engagement programs.

Our benefits include a competitive salary, medical aid, hospital gap cover, retirement savings (provident fund), life insurance, and income protection in case of disability, all part of your guaranteed annual package.