SHEQ Officer - AECI Limited

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops safety programs/campaigns that will enhance a positive safety culture among the entire workforce.
• Ensure that the organization maintains its ISO9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certifications by conducting departmental internal audits and ensuring that all findings are addressed.
• Develops and reviews all risk assessments related to our plants, processes, environment, and safety of employees.
• Coordinates and leads the incident investigations for all plant and customer-related incidents, ensuring that root causes are identified and corrected to prevent a recurrence.
• Reports on a monthly basis the company's performance in relation to safety, health, environment and quality.
• Responsible for evaluating quality control results on a daily basis and advising the management on QC deviations observed.
• Identifies continuous improvement Projects that enhance the SHEQ performance of the company.
• Implements efficient document control to ensure that only valid documents are utilized across the whole organization.
• Ensures that all applicable occupational hygiene surveys are conducted to safeguard the safety and health of all employees.
• Works with contractors and service providers and maintains the contractor management processes.
• Responsible for ensuring that all legal appointments are in place and that the company complies with all relevant SHE regulations.
• Responsible for generating non-conformance findings and reports in the applicable database.
• Ensures that all factory statutory inspections are conducted as prescribed by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
• Ensures that the man-job specification for all company occupations are reviewed to ensure that they are still relevant/valid for the occupation.
• Schedules the yearly medical surveillance for employees in liaison with the appointed medical services provider and/or Wellness Manager.
• Sources appropriate PPE in line with identified hazards and risks to mitigate the effects of the hazards on the well-being of employees.
• Develops and implements new SHEQ standards based on company requirements.
• Contribute to the AECI Group SHEQ forum by being part of a syndicate group.
• Implementation of Food Safety Management system (FSSC/ISO 22000).

Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant tertiary health and safety qualification or equivalent.
• Food industry experience will be advantageous.
• ISO 9001 & ISO 45001 standard implementation is desirable.
• Must be computer literate.
• Knowledge of the OSH Act.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001.
• Basic knowledge of a food safety standard such as HACCP and/or FSSC/ISO 22000.

Competencies

• Communication.
• Planning and organizing.
• Quality orientation.
• Work standards.
• Safety awareness.