Health Safety

Health Safety & Environment Manager (Manufacturing) We are looking for a Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Manager to join our Brits Manufacturing plant in South Africa. This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining HSE standards and strategies, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and promoting continuous improvement in HSE performance. Location Brits, South Africa Responsibilities Ensuring that HSE operational standards are established, implemented, and maintained addressing occupational, environmental, and quality risk. Ensuring that incident/accident reporting is adequate and effective in mitigating risk. Coordinate HSE activities and report performance to the company. Develop, implement, and monitor HSE strategies, policies, and programmes that promote better ways to ensure organisational success for all stakeholders. Coordinate the identification of significant environmental impacts, occupational safety and health risks, and quality defects, and examine corporate activities to establish improvement opportunities while ensuring compliance with HSE legislation. Coordinate continuous improvement within the HSE organization, ensuring operational standards and rigorous processes are followed. Review HSE systems and operations, carry out audits and assessments, identify and resolve non-conformities, and act as an agent of change. Advise on the selection of skills and education programmes for employees at all levels and affirm that the workforce recognises their contributions to improved HSE performance. Coordinate, implement, and maintain strategies to protect and reduce loss of assets through good security management in line with applicable legislation. Ensuring compliance with legal requirements. Qualifications & Experience Required Bachelor’s degree in Health/Environmental/Safety management or related qualification. Certification in SAMTRAC/SHEMTRAC. Qualified Lead Internal Auditor would be beneficial. ISO 14001 & 5001 certification. GMR2 certificate would be beneficial. Experience (years) Minimum of 8 years’ experience in HSE Management Systems. Experience working in a manufacturing environment. Experience in the automotive industry would be beneficial. 4 years of leadership experience. Skills Requirements Initiative/creativity/innovation – proactive approach, generates ideas for improvement of systems, and ability to take initiative and execute tasks creatively. Agility – adhere to acceptable time-keeping practices. Effective planning and implementation – prioritise between more and less critical activities. Positive momentum and solid work ethic. Strong business principles. Effective communication skills – ability to inspire and direct action for achieving results. Up-skilling and multi-skilling of subordinates. Effective budget control. Thoroughness, attention to detail, accuracy and punctuality is essential. The ability to operate in a matrix structure. Strong cross‑functional approach. Strong analytical, technical, diagnostic and mechanical insight. Negotiation and leadership skills. What We Offer A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team. The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship. Corporate Social Responsibility activities. A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment. Agility and work/life effectiveness and long‑term well‑being. A diverse and inclusive team. We are committed to create an even more inclusive culture that advances equity, embraces individuality, and helps our increasingly diverse teammates, customers, and communities thrive, by providing equal opportunities in employment. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, color, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age. #J-18808-Ljbffr