She Manager

**Function**:Supply Chain

**Work Level**: 2A

**Reports to**:Head of SHE Southern Africa and EWA

**Location**: Boksburg

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**JOB PURPOSE**

The Boksburg Site SHE manager has overall responsibility for managing Safety, Health and Environment improvement activities to achieve excellence at the site level. The Site SHE Manager works with site Supply Chain teams to develop the local SHE Strategy and improvement plans to achieve 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 also assume 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 to ensure 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 to achieve sustainable results at the site.
- Local SHE Strategy Design: Define Site & HC SHE strategy and design SHE programs in accordance to SNA and Global SHE Strategy, in collaboration with Regional SHE leadership and other SHE practitioners. Cascade, deploy and implement SHE strategy and programs to achieve 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 to all standards and procedures. Collaborate with the Site teams to minimize 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 to deliver 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 to enhance site SHE records and improvement action plans.
- Safety Culture: develop and deploy plans to significantly 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. Also ensuring to continue 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 appro