Group Manager: Sheq Manager

**Purpose of the role**:
This position is a full hands-on role providing, implement and control management systems to monitor safety, health, environmental quality and corporate risk within the Group nationwide.

The role is responsible for managing and promoting the safety, health, environment, and risk management programs of the Group, in accordance to regulatory policies.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategic and Operational Management**:

- Develops strategic plan for the SHE Function at Group level.
- Compiles the Group’s SHE policies & procedures aligned with corporate strategy.
- Active leadership and support for safety and health initiatives.
- Manage the day-to-day SHEQ function within the Group.
- Support, advise and monitor the SHEQ performance of the Group.
- Implement and maintain an environmental program for stations nationally within South Africa and Globally.
- Maintain liaisons with all relevant government bodies, agencies, and worker representatives with regards to Health Safety matters.
- You are responsible for the triple certification ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and ISO 9001 not limited to ISO 45001/14001/50001 and audit training.
- Perform internal audits and coordinate with external ISO audits, including the monitoring and handling of findings.
- Ensure local and international compliance to legal requirements.
- Responsible for all aspects of safety, including managing, quality control, and technical support.
- Responsible for the direct management of safety to include group safety personnel, workers compensation, industrial hygiene, and emergency response training.
- Provide thought leadership on safety, health, environmental and quality management practices.
- Complete regular reporting to identify trends and opportunities for improvements.
- Leading continuous improvement in management and risk management systems, leading preparedness processes and emergency preparedness.
- Leading processes to achieve goals and meet them proactively while preventing events, meeting business commitments, and performing effective internal and external communication.
- Implement and control a management system to monitor safety, health, environmental quality and corporate risk.
- Develop Service Level Agreements with internal customer and ensure delivery against contracted targets.
- Provides direction on contracts, policies & procedures aligned hereto for the SHE functions.
- Submits progress reports on departmental plan, implementation, quality, progress and status.
- Implement and control a Competence Management System to support the appropriate risk control measures.
- Design and develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for processes/procedures, analyses and validates existing protocols and/or recommends and implements necessary.
- Implement incident prevention programmes and ensure corrective and preventive action is taken on all reported incidents.
- Represent the company externally, to regulatory bodies and build relationships as required.
- Coordinate incident and personal injury claims handling throughout the company.
- Raise the profile, through education, formulation of KPIs and implementation of initiatives of safety, health, environmental, quality and corporate risk.
- Set and manage incident and accident investigation.
- Carry out regular analysis of SHEQ data statistics to determine trends & changes.
- Establish and prioritise areas of safety improvement resulting from safety statistics.
- Review reports for accuracy and make corrections as needed.
- Support the design, development, delivery and management of communications.
- Ensure alignment of activities to support business plans.
- Act as an advisor to subordinate leads or staff members.
- Challenge stakeholders and teams to maximise opportunities from continuous improvement initiatives and support the capability enablement of these opportunities.
- Facilitate workshops and provide specialist continuous improvement advice to business units to identify and resolve specific issues that are critically impacting business outcomes.
- Review any significant productivity variances and identify improvements, determine cost versus benefit and implement changes.
- Identify process gaps along with a root cause analysis of issues and use data to make fact-based decisions for process improvement recommendations.
- Ensure SWOT analysis are conducted following a standard process.

**Leadership / Management**:

- Lead and Manage SHEQ team / group.
- Manage staff, direct and indirect reports and monitor quality of staff output.
- Ensure SHEQ team meets required standards of data management and record keeping.
- Develop and deliver an effective SHEQ strategy.
- Monitor the implementation of the SHEQ strategy and report on the progress and remedial actions taken.
- Provide regular reporting to the Group Executives.
- Manage and develop staff to ensure high quality personnel who are able to achieve performance objectives in support of the mission and