SHE Practitioner at Enaex Africa

ABOUT THE ROLE / PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To enable, support and facilitate the management and assurance of Occupational Safety, Health and Environment towards Zero Harm and Sustainability in a Risk-Based, proactive manner.

FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS

Operational, Financial and Technical results:

• Carry out duties and responsibilities of a legally appointed MHS Act Reg. 2.17.1 Safety Officer for Enaex Africa operations on mine (customer site) premises.
• Carry out duties and responsibilities required by any other relevant legal appointment in terms of MHS Act, OHS Act appointment and other OHS legislation (e.g. incident investigator, H&S committee member)                                                                                                                                     
• Ensure that work activities are in line with the SHE Strategic objectives and key focus areas.
• ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 implementation and maintenance.
• Facilitate the identification of occupational SHE hazards, associated risks, key undesirable events, and the associated preventive and corrective controls.
• Enable the implementation of risk controls within Operations.
• Facilitate workplace risk assessments (e.g. baseline, continuous and issue based)
• Facilitate the execution of risk-based workplace occupational safety improvement interventions
• Identify non-conformances, including incidents,
• Conduct in depth investigations, facilitate root cause analysis,
• Identify personal, workplace and organizational factors which may prevent incidents from occurring /recurring
• Conduct regular inspections to identify at risk conditions and at-risk behaviours to prevent incidents and strive for zero harm.   
• Occasionally facilitate SHE discussions (toolbox talks, SHE meetings or stand downs)

Governance and assurance:

• Conduct risk-based Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) audits with focus on critical risk controls.
• Participate in the respective SHE meetings and stakeholder forums.
• Monitor, review and effectiveness of SHE improvement initiatives.
• Monitor and respond proactively to hazards in the workplace.
• Lead workplace SHE inspections and coach Operations personnel.
• Identify incident and injury trends and recommend and monitor mitigating control measures.
• Participate in the roll out and maintenance of the SHE Improvement Plans.
• Maintain Change management and communication initiatives.

Leadership and Values:

• Values behaviour, personal development, and effectiveness.
• Maintain high performance and seek opportunities for personal growth.
• Continuously develop knowledge relating to the field of work and personal mastery in technical skills application
• Enable the achievement of sustainable SHE performance through Occupational SHE business processes.
• Share key business and organizational information

Relationship, Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Build and sustain positive internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Participate as member of natural working teams, and other groups.
• Engagement with Operations and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with SHE requirements.
• Influence Operations and team members to implement the best practices.
• Identify and establish communication channels and mechanisms.
• Extract, benchmark, enrich, capture, and disseminate within knowledge management standards.

Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Relevant 3-year qualification in the Safety, Health, Environmental, Mining, Chemicals, or Explosives field
• COMSOC 1 and COMSOC 2 (advantageous)
• Blasting Certificate (advantageous)
• ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 Implementation and Auditing courses (advantageous)
• 5 years’ relevant experience, preferably in mining, or chemicals and/or explosives industry.
• The candidate must be medically fit to work on in mining, explosives, and chemicals operations.
• Experience and/or ability to work in matrix reporting structure.
• Preference will be given to qualifying candidates from the local communities.

KEY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

• Ability to proactively identify shortcomings in the SHE Management System
• Ability to work with digital SHEQ Risk management systems.
• Report Writing
• Risk based SHE management.
• Risk Assessments
• Incident Investigations
• Computer literacy (MS Office)
• Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.

BEHAVIORAL ATTRIBUTES 

• Be able to work under pressure
• Planning & Organizing
• Detail oriented
• Fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Able to work on your own with little supervision