SHE Lead: Khanyisa & Anderbolt

Join us as Site SHE LeadFunction: Supply Chain – SHE (Safety, Health & Environment)Reports to: Head of SHE Southern, East and West Africa Scope: Local Location: Khanyisa Factory Terms & Conditions: Full TimeABOUT UNILEVERUnilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. You will work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues who provide mentorship and inspiration so that you can become a better you.JOB PURPOSESite SHE Lead has overall responsibility for managing Safety, Health and Environment improvement activities to achieve excellence at the site level. The Site SHE Lead 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 programs across the region. The SHE Lead 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.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESCascade, 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 including the development of SHE technical skills, leadership development, as well as building a talent pipeline for succession.Safety Culture: develop and deploy plans to significantly shift the safety culture, with a focus on leadership and employee accountabilitySHE 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 appropriate controls. Working with Occupational Health and other technical professional in operations to mitigate risk that may lead to occupational injury, occupational illness, or negative environmental impact.Leadership in SHE Pillars: Lead the Safety & Environmental Pillars establishing the pillar frameworks as the standard ways of working for SHE.BBS Program Support: Understand and support the deployment of the Unilever BBS Program.Subcommittee Committee Leadership assistance: Assist in developing and leading internal safety committees as well as building capabilities. This includes CSHECs, all relevant subcommittees, Management performance reviews/meetings for 3P’s, as well as crisis management committees (IMT’s).Data and Trend Analysis: Conduct analysis of incidents, near misses, and compliance audits data to establish trends and insights of performance and compliance.Continuous improvement: Apply continuous improvement tools, establishing priority focus areas, countermeasures, preventative measure and focused improvement plans to improve metrics and program effectiveness.Audit program & systems: Develop and implement internal & external SHE audit and inspection programs. Ensure compliance and Implement findings audits, adhering to agreed deadlines.Training Needs Assessment and Capability Building: Enhance SHE capabilities from leadership to shop floor, through programs like LTO (License to Operate) and LTL (License to Lead). Identify training needs for all programs, including regulatory compliance and ensure SHE training program delivery.Budget Formulation: Create a single-functional budget for strategic deliverables.Governance Framework Development: Establish governance and compliance models for operational functions.Community of Practice: as part of the regional SHE leadership team, coordinate the SHE professionals’ community of practice activities to drive collaboration, sharing best practices, improving capabilities, and effective cascade of GBU/Global cascade.SHE Culture Promotion: Establish a SHE culture program aligned with the Unilever BBS Program, to improve safe behavior and good working practices across sites.Engineering Safety Support: Apply Unilever guidelines for Engineering Safety as per SIMAS (Safety in Manufacturing and Supply).REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCEBachelor’s degree or Diploma in in related field (Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Operations management, Safety Management, Environmental management, or similar)6-8 years of work experience which includes operational and Strategic experience at management level in SHE.Experience in the extended Supply Chain operations is advantageousSKILLSContinuous improvement/ lean manufacturingHealth & saf