SHE Lead: Khanyisa & Anderbolt

Join us as Site SHE Lead

Function:Supply Chain – SHE (Safety, Health & Environment)

Reports to:Head of SHE Southern, East and West Africa

Scope: Local

Location:Khanyisa Factory

Terms & Conditions: Full Time

ABOUT UNILEVER
Unilever 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 PURPOSE

Site 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 RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 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 accountability

• 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 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 & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’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 advantageous

SKILLS

• Continuous improvement/ lean manufacturing

• Health & safety management

• People & Performance management

• Project management

• Risk management

• Problem solving

• Stakeholder management

Leadership
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. As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Unilever behaviours
CARE DEEPLY: We care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development and our impact on the planet. We care about our performance, to a point where it hurts when we don’t win. It is not just about being nice or avoiding honest conversations about performance and opportunity.

FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS: We ruthlessly prioritize what really, really matters, allowing us to do better on fewer things. We set clear and stretching goals and recognize maximum performance impact. It is not about reducing ambition or effort or running after the ‘new and shiny’.

STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD: We think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance. We are always curious and confident, anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends to beat the competition. It is not taking our eye off the ‘here and now’.

DELIVER WITH EXCELLENCE: We deliver everything we do with excellence and pace. We take personal ownership and hold each other to account – always finding a way to do what we’ve said we will do. It is not about analyzing the inevitable roadblocks, admiring the problem or tolerating mediocrity.

Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.  We are intentional in employing the best talent that reflects the demographics of our country and which will help build representation of currently under-represented groups. We therefore invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered.  

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, please note that you may be requested to provide supporting documents supporting this. 

This is an office-based role in Johannesburg (Khanyisa Factory) and requires 100% of time attendance on site.

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.