Specialist: Health and Safety at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

• To provide support and consultation to Vodacom specific regions in relation to Health, Safety and Environmental issues as well as ensure that Vodacom SA retains system certification by meeting all Health & Safety KPI’s.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Define and implement a regional HSE plan 
• Initiate transformational drives within the region to move HSE ownership to employees 
• Coordinate visible leadership initiatives and track cultural changes on behaviour and attitude
• Manage and update the HSE system with current information
• Develop, empower and conduct safety inspections in line with a site supervision model
• Train or facilitate the training of regional staff on HSE related statutory requirements
• Drive the environmental strategy in the region through key stakeholders
• Participate in internal and external audits as well as policy reviews and statutory enquiries
• Identify high risk projects and ensure contractor compliance and project safety compliance prior to commencement
• Project manage special HSE related projects including the task-group, project plan and take responsibility for the project deliverable
• Provide specialist HSE support and consultation in the Region
• Collate data and compile qualitative and quantitative reports aligned with Exco and board reports
• Identify HSE risks, and methodically calculate risk to region. Identify and implement control plans to mitigate or manage the risk to an acceptable level
• Drive standard and policy implementation in the region and review implementation effectiveness.
• Create a sharing and learning platform to promote HSE awareness in the region
• End-to-end HSE monitoring and control of Out Of Home (OOH) activities e.g. billboards.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical/professional qualifications: 

• 3-5 years experience (Essential)
• Matric and Degree/National Diploma in a Safety-related field (Recommended) OR
• Certificate in Environmental Management (Recommended) OR
• A Completed NEBOSH/SAMTRAC Certificate  (Recommended)

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• ISO 45001 - detailed knowledge and ISO 14001 -basic knowledge
• South African Health and Safety legislation - detailed knowledge  
• Occupational Safety concepts - detailed knowledge  
• ILO Standards – basic knowledge
• Risk Management principles and/or ISO 31000 – basic knowledge
• Project management principles  
• Computer literacy
• Interpersonal   
• Communication (verbal and written)  
• Presentation  
• Facilitation   
• Problem-solving