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HSE Manager

City: Johannesburg

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Supply

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

Are you keen to make a tangible difference in HSE Manager for ensuring that coordinating all HS&E programs and for leading all HS&E agenda for Elandsfontein site. The incumbent leads the deployment of Global strategy for embedding a Safety-First culture where each member of the team actively owns Safety and seeing its implementation across the site. You will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of a transformational Culture for Health and Safety programs, as well as Environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives for the site. You will be expected to demonstrate leadership behaviours, and a commitment to Health, Safety and Environment while ensuring the development of a strong talent pipeline and an engaged team

Your responsibilities

Ensures compliance with current legislation and management of performance against environmental standards.
Development of proposals to meet future legislation
Responsible for overseeing the environmental performance of the organisation and for developing, implementing and monitoring environmental strategies that promote sustainable development.
Participate as a key member of the Elandsfontein Site Leadership Team; drive strategic direction and vision of the site HS&E priorities.
Partner with cross functional teams to foster a Safety-First culture through listening, education and training, accountability and continuous improvement.
Works closely with the global HS&E team to support the business strategy under its scope of control, securing the deployment of initiatives, corporate and regulatory goals.
Develop and execute long-term plans related to succession planning and team development, cost management, facility improvements, equipment upgrades and regulation changes.
Effectively communicate and review the functional and financial performance of the HS&E department and programs, manages the tools and processes to monitor key performance indicators.
Establish and implement HS&E strategic continuous improvement plans. Explores industry trends, develops strategies, and drives the adoption of leading EHS technology.
Understand the continuous improvement (CI) methodologies and use them to drive sustained results, including continuous Safety related training & learning
Implement training programs to educate employees on HS&E best practices.
Develop and maintain emergency response plans and procedures for all the sites.
Audit HS&E systems and programs to ensure compliance to internal and external standards.
Actively participate in the development of the fixed departmental and capital budgets and administer the approved budget under its responsibility including capital expense requests.
Ensure that all physical assets of the site are effectively protected and maintained from a safety perspective.
Ensure effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Excellent incident investigation ability to support, challenge and strengthen site accident investigations. Point of contact from senior leadership for any follow up questions.

The experience we're looking for

Bsc, BEng, B-Tech in Engineering, Health and Safety, Business management ,Pharmaceutical or other related discipline are required.
Between 5-7 years within manufacturing, FMCG preferred
3+ years managerial experience in various areas of health and safety in a highly- regulated
Knowledge of HS&E regulations and standards. Certification in relevant HS&E disciplines is a plus advantages
Understanding managing Audits ,systems and risk management critical for the role.
Good understanding of Global manufacturinf process & Systems deploymenet.
Demostrated leadership in leading a high perfoming team.

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What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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