Vice President Safety, Health & Wellbeing at Gold Fields Limited

Role Details

Gold Fields is currently seeking a Vice President Safety, Health, and Wellbeing to join the Group Sustainable

Development team. Reporting to the Executive Vice President Sustainable Development, this role is responsible for leading the development of the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing (includes psychosocial)  policy, framework guidelines  and objectives  of the Group as well as leading the development of standards, processes and systems incorporating the setting of targets reporting, performance tracking, assurance and change management to facilitate the implementation of policy  while enhancing Gold Fields’ reputation creating value for stakeholders and mitigating risk.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the development of the Group Management Strategy and Policy on safety, health, and wellbeing (includes psychosocial), based on key safety management focus areas as ratified by the Gold Fields Executive.
• Initiate and lead the comprehensive analysis of global, regional and industry trends in safety, health and wellbeing management, practices, and developments; undertake studies and engage with industry thought leaders to shape and influence step changes in Gold Fields safety, health, and wellbeing (includes psychosocial) management.
• Initiate and lead the comprehensive analysis of internal Gold Fields operational trends, incidents, practices, and developments and prioritise the critical focus areas for intervention
• Combine internal and external trends and developments, apply thought leadership to design innovative pathways to induce sustainable step changes in safety, health, and wellbeing (includes psychosocial) management and provide expert advice to the Gold Fields executive in leading the shaping of the Group Management Strategy and the associated Group Management Programme
• safety, and wellbeing (includes psychosocial), Safe Work Behaviour modelling and consequence management for the incorporation into the Group Management Programme.
• Acts as an Ambassador for the Health and Safety Discipline within the Group's Operations both nationally and internationally by forging influential relationships at the highest levels and across the global market.

Key factors to your success include:

• Post Graduate Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Post Graduate qualification in Behavioral Science is a prerequisite for consideration for the role
• A proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in Safety, Health, and Wellbeing as a demonstrated thought leader and considered a global expert in the understanding and application in the discipline of Safety, Health, and Wellbeing (psychosocial).
• Demonstrated experience in a senior leadership role within a technical environment, including the coordination of knowledge sharing across a discipline.
• Be willing and able to travel extensively