Reporting: Supply Chain Executive

Location: Maitland or Westlake

Cape Herb and Spice has grown from entrepreneurial roots into a global player, supplying top retailers across the world. We are recruiting an experienced HSE Manager to manage safety and environmental compliance across our various manufacturing and warehousing sites.

Objectives of this role

This position gives focus to ensuring HSE compliance at shopfloor level, implementing and reviewing systems, procedures, and policies, and providing monthly performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the implementation, updating, review and auditing of the Company HSE systems.
• Ensures the effective implementation of HSE system procedures across our sites.
• Conducts safety audits both internal and external.
• Conducts accident / incident investigations and handles any related COID claims.
• Carries out analysis of accident / incident statistics, identifying trends and suggesting improvement plans.
• Provides technical support to Senior Management on any safety related subjects.
• Carries out safety audits on sub-contractors.
• Conduct training and presentations for health and safety matters and accident prevention.
• Provides safety related input into new projects and modification programs.
• Chairs the HSE Committee.
• Performs risk assessments.
• Updates HSE statistics and prepares monthly HSE reports.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Relevant related qualification (Degree/Diploma)
• 3 years+ experience as SHEQ Manager
• Thorough knowledge of health and safety legislation in South Africa e.g., OHSACT and COID ACT and other relevant health and safety legislation and regulations.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite particularly Excel
• Ability in producing reports and developing relevant policies.
• Good knowledge of data analysis and risk assessment.

Key personal characteristics, knowledge, and skills

• Sense of urgency.
• Deadline driven & goal orientated.
• Good communication, organizational and interpersonal relation skills are essential.
• Practical thinker
• Self-Starter
• Team player
• Optimistic solution creator

For more information on this role including Key Functional areas and additional necessary skills and characteristics please visit https://www.capeherb.co.za/careers

If you have not received a response within two weeks of application submission, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

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