Safety Manager at International Breweries

Job Purpose

Opportunity exists for an Environment & Safety Manager in International Breweries Plc, reporting to the Plant Manager. The Environment and Safety Manager will provide the plant with a comprehensive and professional environment and occupational health and safety system; Ensuring compliance to environment and safety systems, standards, and work practices to achieve targets set for the VPO environment and safety pillars as well as the environment and safety KPI’s.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Ensure conformance to specifications and standards
• Lead the establishment of a SAFETY-FIRST culture through implementation of behavioral safety program
• Ensure delivery of results through implementation of VPO standards and relevant safety and environment SOPs
• Manage departmental Budget / Finances
• Lead safety in site projects execution defining minimum requirements at all stages and monitoring compliance during planning and execution thereof
• Lead the establishment of a capacitance engineering capability
• Manage the Safety and Environment function including Operations and Maintenance of BTS
• Lead the elimination of all identified safety and environment risks through sharing safety alerts and driving closure of identified gaps from problem solving and incident and accident investigations.
• Create a Safety and environment awareness through planned and unplanned campaigns such as World Environment/Safety Day activities
• Lead the risk management program, comprising of occupational health and safety and risk management
• Ensure plant's legal compliance and adherence to legal standards/regulations
• People Management Facilitate team problem solving and decision making
• Lead the Safety and environment team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment, and team interaction
• Lead the development of Safety and environment team goals and ensure these are communicated and understood by team members
• Conduct regular Safety and Environment team goal review sessions
• Ensure training need analyses are conducted and training plans developed for team members
• Ensure appropriate competencies are developed in the team, and ensure cross skilling occurs within the Safety and environment team

Requirements:

• Min. of B.Sc./B.Tech/HND in Electrical, Mechanical or Environmental Science.
• Proven Leadership Ability
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods environment.
• Experience in both safety and environment management
• 3-5 years’ experience in either Safety/environment Controller role.