SHE Manager

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 :
o SHE Management Boksburg Factory
o SHE Business Partner Homecare
o Safe Travel in Vehicles (Unilever drivers & shuttles)
o Collaborative Logistics (3PL fleet and DC Safety – where relevant)
o 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 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 in alignment with ManEx (Manufacturing Excellence), establishing the pillar frameworks as the standard ways of working for SHE.
• Unified Ways of Working: Ensure UMS Safety and Environmental Pillars and Unilever FWS are the standard ways-of-working (WoW) on site.
• 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 and continuous coaching of subcommittee leads and members to meet objectives, ensure compliance to Unilever standards and governance requirements. 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 ultimately 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).

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in in related field (Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Operations management, Safety Management, Environmental management, or similar)
• 12+ years of work experience, of which 5-8 years should include operational and Strategic experience at management level in SHE
• Experience in the extended Supply Chain operations is advantageous

Skills
Regulatory compliance
• Communication and Influencing
• Decision making
• Risk management
• Problem solving
• Stakeholder management

Leadership
• You have a high passion for developing people as well as an affinity for coaching. As the business partner to numerous leaders accountable for safety, you will have to train, coach and guide them to ensure that safety leadership is at the required level. In addition, direct talent management of your direct reports as well as skills development to deliver leading edge performance.
• You hold yourself, your peers, and leaders to a high standard of accountability, ensuring both objectives are met to the right quality of delivery.
• You are not just a SHE leader, but a business leader, able to see and contextualize the bigger picture, assisting the business to drive both safety performance as well as business priorities.
• You are good at managing stakeholders across various functions and at all levels, able to communicate effectively. You have the ability to influence across the organization impactfully to drive change.
• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team delivers with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenges with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.