JOB PURPOSE
The Boksburg Site SHE manager has overall responsibility for managing Safety, Health and Environment improvement activities tachieve excellence at the site level. The Site SHE Manager works with site Supply Chain teams tdevelop the local SHE Strategy and improvement plans tachieve sustainable SHE excellence by reducing injuries, illnesses and environmental impact as measured in the core KPIs. Where geographical proximity, size and complexity permit, this role may cover more than one site and lead program across the region. The incumbent in the role will alsassume the role of Homecare business partner for Southern Africa and be the main SHE points of contact for both local and global business units, coordinating the homecare activities and interacting with the Community of Practice of SHE professionals and overseeing corporate legal compliance. The SHE Manager is responsible for building capability within his/her SHE teams, inclusive of production and engineering teams, with explicit focus on site SHE leadership and technical skills tensure a good talent pipeline.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
Operationally Responsible for :
SHE Management Boksburg Factory
SHE Business Partner Homecare
Safe Travel in Vehicles (Unilever drivers & shuttles)
Collaborative Logistics (3PL fleet and DC Safety – where relevant)
Collaborative Manufacturing
SHE Strategy Deployment: Implement the global/cluster/GBUs SHE strategy, policies, and standards tachieve sustainable results at the site.
Local SHE Strategy Design: Define Site & HC SHE strategy and design SHE programs in accordance tSNA and Global SHE Strategy, in collaboration with Regional SHE leadership and other SHE practitioners. Cascade, deploy and implement SHE strategy and programs tachieve excellence and compliance in SHE performance.
Safety performance & Environmental Impact Reduction: Drive SHE performance through the systematic reduction of Safety KPI’s, managing leading indicators, and ensuring compliance tall standards and procedures. Collaborate with the Site teams tminimize environmental impacts (COD, waste, SOx, CO2, water, and energy).
Management Influence: Drive safety and environmental leadership through senior management engagement, business partnering, coaching, and empowerment. Ensuring that Safety is driven as a line responsibility, and (senior) leadership is accountability for all safety compliance and performance.
Team Management & Development : Oversee SHE teams tdeliver Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) results. This includes the development of SHE technical skills, leadership development, as well as building a talent pipeline for succession.
Workplan Development: Create and execute workplans tenhance site SHE records and improvement action plans.
Safety Culture: develop and deploy plans tsignificantly shift the safety culture, with a focus on leadership and employee accountability and ownership, strong SHE capabilities and impactful tools, and rigor in driving compliance. Alsensuring tcontinue promoting Unilever’s principles of driving a speak up culture and psychological safety, as well as driving safe behaviors and habits.
SHE Data Management & Reporting: Ensure timely delivery of prescribed SHE data, as well as accurate reporting in SHE systems (OS/EPR/PAR/etc.), with necessary documentation.
Incident Reporting: Ensure timely reporting of recordable incidents per UL and legal requirements.
Accident Investigation Advisory: Advise on accident and incident investigations (including IMT’s) and oversee reporting accuracy. Building strong capabilities and compliance with the process. Support all serious incident investigations.
Legal Compliance Monitoring and guidance: Ensure compliance with local/national regulations and Unilever standards. Advise site leadership on national SHE legislation and implement relevant policies.
Risk Assessment: Drive safety and environmental risk assessments programs and processes, developing appropriate controls. Working with Occupational Health and other technical professional in operations tmitigate risk that may lead toccupational injury, occupational illness, or negative environmental impact.
Leadership in SHE Pillars: Lead the Safety & Environmental Pillars in alignment with ManEx (Manufacturing Excellence), establishing the pillar frameworks as the standard ways of working for SHE.
Unified Ways of Working: Ensure UMS Safety and Environmental Pillars and Unilever FWS are the standard ways-of-working (WoW) on site.
BBS Program Support: Understand and support the deployment of the Unilever BBS Program.
Subcommittee Committee Leadership assistance: Assist in developing and leading internal safety committees as well as building capabilities and continuous coaching of subcommittee leads and members tmeet objectives, ensure compliance tUnilever standards and governance requirements. This includes CSHECs, all relevant subcommittees, Management performance reviews/meetings for 3P’s, as well as crisis management committees (IMT’s).
Data and Trend Analysis: Conduct analysis of incidents, near misses, and compliance audits data testablish trends and insights of performance and compliance.
Continuous improvement: Apply continuous improvement tools, establishing priority focus areas, countermeasures, preventative measure and ultimately focused improvement plans timprove metrics and program effectiveness.
Audit program & systems: Develop and implement internal & external SHE audit and inspection programs. Ensure compliance and Implement findings audits, adhering tagreed deadlines.
Training Needs Assessment and Capability Building: Enhance SHE capabilities from leadership tshop floor, through programs like LT(License tOperate) and LTL (License tLead). Identify training needs for all programs, including regulatory compliance and ensure SHE training program delivery.
Budget Formulation: Create a single-functional budget for strategic deliverables.
Governance Framework Development: Establish governance and compliance models for operational functions.
Community of Practice: as part of the regional SHE leadership team, coordinate the SHE professionals’ community of practice activities tdrive collaboration, sharing best practices, improving capabilities, and effective cascade of GBU/Global cascade.
SHE Culture Promotion: Establish a SHE culture program aligned with the Unilever BBS Program, timprove safe behavior and good working practices across sites.
Engineering Safety Support: Apply Unilever guidelines for Engineering Safety as per SIMAS (Safety in Manufacturing and Supply).
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TSUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in in related field (Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Operations management, Safety Management, Environmental management, or similar)
12+ years of work experience, of which 5-8 years should include operational and Strategic experience at management level in SHE
Experience in the extended Supply Chain operations is advantageous
Skills
Regulatory compliance
Communication and Influencing
Decision making
Risk management
Problem solving
Stakeholder management
Apply via company website ( https://www.unilever.co.za ) or
careers.unilever.com