Advisor Safety - Richards Bay at Rio Tinto

About the role

• We are looking for Advisor: Safety to ensure legal and shareholder compliance to Rio Tinto HSE standards and regulatory requirements by assisting with the implementation of the HSE processes, procedures and initiatives and utilizing HSE systems. To provide an effective H&S Service in consultation with relevant stakeholders to the business in order to ensure optimum H&S performance and legal compliance within the Divisions. This service is expanded to the contractors at RBM to ensure compliance to Rio Tinto Standards and legislative requirements.

Reporting to the Manager: Health and Safety and working in a collaborative community within the HSE team, you will:

• Provide safety monitoring, advice and ensure compliance service to highest level
• Assist with the monitoring of compliance to identified safety local and national legal requirements.
• Ensure that local and national legal safety requirements are identified and communicated as well as understood.
• Perform Rio Tinto HSEQ MS responsibilities.
• Assist with contractor pre-assessment and annual HSE performance and compliance.
• Perform fair and reasonable tasks related to the job and working environment, at the discretion of the Manager: Health and Safety.
• Ensure HSE knowledge is transferred and received to relevant parties including HSE standards and procedures.
• Coordinate HSE information flow between the respective departments within the relevant division as well as between the division and the HSE department.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Grade12/ Matric/ N3
• National Diploma in Safety Management or equivalent
• Degree/ B. Tech in Safety Management or equivalent and/or at least SAMTRAC (Advantageous)
• Driver’s License
• 3 years of health and safety experience in a mining or industrial environment
• License/Certificate: SAMTRAC, COMSOC, NEBOSH, Incident Investigation/Analysis, Risk Management
• Good communication skills
• Well-developed interpersonal and presentation skills
• Computer skills (MS Office) – Intermediate