Safety Assurance Specialist at De Beers Group

Job Description
The Safety Assurance Specialist is responsible to support and advise the line organisation in executing self-assurance against standards, procedures, regulations as well as supporting external audits.

Safety, Health, Environment, Legal and Regulatory, Social, Reputational and Financial

• Ensure consistent application of ORM principles in all site interactions within and beyond site boundaries
  • Act as a role model and create a workplace culture where SHE and Risk Management for the site is paramount
  • Actively challenge and act on unsafe behaviours without the fear of repercussions

Performance and Delivery

• Provide input on effective corrective actions needed to mitigate issues identified in audits
• Coach line on best ways to do audits and identify ways to improve efficacy/reduce need for the audit
• Support line verification activities resulting from audits
• Drive the process to obtain and retain appropriate external certificates
• Introduce new technology to auditing/assurance approach, and ways to be more efficient and effective
• Provide input to monitoring approach to ensure as efficient as possible
• Support implementation and monitoring of Group Assurance programmes for the assigned sites, including regulatory compliance
• Evaluate compliance assurance programme implementation and performance continuously
• Advise on and support site assurance against standards, procedures, regulations
• Support the setup of reporting structures and monitoring of assurance status as required by Group and/or external parties

Sustainability & Social

• Improve sustainability performance of the organisation over time.
• Work in an integrated way to provide a multi-disciplinary approach and balanced view across all major disciplines

People & Teams

• Contribute to a purpose-led, high-performing culture within the site safety function that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity
• Work in an integrated way to provide a multi-disciplinary approach and balanced view across all major disciplines

Compliance

• Support compliance with external (legislative, regulatory, permitting) requirements
• Ensure compliance with Anglo American requirements
• Selectively Support investigation of high-severity and high-potential incidents (safety, health, environmental and social)
• Other requirements as assigned by your Manager.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant discipline such as science, engineering, or other related careers plus a formal qualification in Safety combined with practical safety experience of at least 3 to 5 years; local requirements might deviate according to laws and regulations

Experience:

• Detailed knowledge of Operational Risk Management as well as a thorough understanding of operations
• Demonstrated experience in an assurance position within a technical environment, including the coordination of knowledge sharing with broader stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience working in an assurance position at a project, operation or BU level in mining Industry.
• Track record of interfacing with and influencing colleagues at all levels and coordinating disciplines relevant to assurance
• An understanding of the operational aspects associated with mining operations
• Knowledge of safety policies, procedures and the important role of consistently demonstrating required behaviours and championing safety values

Social process skills are the people skills needed to ensure effective interactions with other people to achieve productive outcomes and build effective relationships.

• Effectively influence and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes
• Ability to facilitate agreement and co-operation using a diplomatic and open approach
• Effective in working with diverse teams and sensitive to local social, political and cultural realities
• Comfortably interact across all mediums of interaction i.e. face to face vs virtual interactions with team and stakeholders
• Uses networks in all stages of decision making to ensure decisions are not made in isolation, though not to the extent that would be seen as abdicating responsibility

Additional Information

• Successfully obtain a Red Ticket (Medical Fitness Certificate) on mine.
• Consideration for employment is subject to you being cleared by the Company's Security and Human Resources Departments, which will include, reference and employment history checks, an identity check and qualifications verification, criminal record and credit history checks as well as psychometric and Polygraph integrity assessments.
• For internal applicants, you are required to attain your immediate line manager and Head of Department signature on your application form.