Safety & Environment Controller - Ibhayi Brewery at The South African Breweries (SAB)

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