Safety & Environmental Manager at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Job Description

• 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 outputs and responsibilities:

• Maintain safe healthy and risk-free working environment
• Ensure safety, healthy & environmental legislation compliance
• Ensure compliance the VPO Standards for the environment and safety pillars
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards Manage Human Resources - ES Controller
• 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
• Leads the management and implementation of the Safety and Environment VPO Pillar in the plant
• Ensure requirements of all Blocks of the 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 environment 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 Investment Programmed
• Implement Safety and Environment VPO and associated GOP's
• Manage progress according to glide paths set and agreed
• Implement E&S Dashboards and sustain derived improvement Manage small Safety and Environment site Capex Projects
• Manage Safety and environment requirements during Projects execution
• ESL 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 organizes and participates in World Safety and environment Day/Week and other planed 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 UMs on department-specific safety & environment requirements
• Ensure effective induction, training and awareness for new employee, service providers, seasonal employees and Contractors
• Identify environment and safety legal training needs, arrange and co-ordinate Training programs/initiatives/solutions - 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 & departmental coordination of Ammonia Process, Steam Process, Dust Process and Electrical Process Safety Management programs
• Manage Safety, Upholding (UPP) and Cost CAPEX portfolios
• Ensure a 3-year plan exists for, - Maintenance and replacement of Plant Equipment across Sites - Maintenance and replacement of C&A infrastructure due to obsolescence
• Indicate primary challenges presented by this job and the kinds of decision that the position is expected to make
• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Lead the establishment of a SAFETY-FIRST culture through implementation of behavioral safety program
• Ensure delivery of results through implementation of VPO standards and relevant safety and environment SOPs
• Manage departmental Budget / Finances
• Lead safety in site projects execution defining minimum requirements at all stages and monitoring compliance during planning and execution thereof
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
• Manage the Safety and Environment function including Operations and Maintenance of Effluent tank and screen
• Lead the elimination of all identified safety and environment risks through sharing safety alerts and driving closure of identified gaps from problem solving and incident and accident investigations.
• Create a Safety and environment awareness through planned and unplanned campaigns such as World environment/Safety Day activities
• Lead the risk management program, comprising of occupational health and safety and risk management
• Ensure plant's legal compliance and adherence to legal standards/regulations
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Lead the Safety and environment team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
• Lead the development of Safety and environment team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular Safety and environment team goal review sessions
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members

Minimum Requirements:

• 3-year appropriate tertiary qualification
• Tertiary qualification in Safety and environment Management and Auditing
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods environment
• Experience in both safety and environment management
• 3-5 years' experience in either Safety/environment Facilitator or Controller role

End Date: December 21, 2025