SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

The South African Breweries•Agawam, MA

About The Position

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.

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

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