Safety Manager

Key Accountabilities and Challenges:

• Operate within and observe all relevant and applicable laws of Zambia.
• Ensure appropriate Safety Management systems are in place for all areas of the mine site.
• Deliver and promote a Safety culture within the company and promote adherence to safe operating procedures for all mine site activities.
• Develop and implement the Safety management system to ensure incidents are addressed & reported promptly.
• Ensure all required training in the use of the Safety management system is undertaken to promote use of the programme.
• Monitor evaluate and review Safety policy and practice, make recommendations and create and implement new policies and procedures as required.
• Identify Safety training needs for site personnel, develop and ensure delivery of training as required ensuring accurate and timely recording of training completed.
• Advise the management team on current and emerging health, safety and welfare legislation, including evaluation and recommendation of options and generation of action plans to ensure compliance across the organisation.
• Support the management team to maintain safe systems and processes, through the provision of specialist advice, coaching and practical support within the departments.
• Assist fellow managers to implement departmental safety systems and procedures to meet specific requirements, such as accident reporting and route cause analysis in a consistent and effective manner.
• Implement safety audits to evaluate the effectiveness of Health and Safety systems and procedures to identify and implement improvements.
• Ensure routine health and safety activities and checks are undertaken e.g. testing of portable electrical appliances and the review of risk assessments.
• Vigorously ensure that thorough and documented investigations, applying root-cause analysis, are completed for all safety incidences ensuring that key findings are evaluated and processes are developed to prevent recurrence.
• Manage actions required to mitigate the impact and likelihood of health and safety risks.
• Build a ‘team’ environment within the Safety team.
• Manage, track and report on continuous improvement activities and the Safety culture across the mine site.
• Approve and implement any capital improvement projects within the Safety department.
• Implement the structure, approved manning levels and resources to deliver the Safety plan.
• Maintain staff development and training programs, particularly skills transfer and mentoring in the Safety team.
• Actively manage development & succession planning for key talents and key roles.
• Champion and implement key organisational initiatives through the department.
• Produce daily and monthly safety reports.
• Prepare quarterly and annual operations budgets/forecasts for Safety.
• Consideration of costs to reduce operational costs.
• Implement the FQM Way culture across the Process Plant team, “Smarter, Bolder, Driven, Together”.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by General Manager.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

Education

• Tertiary qualification in Health and Safety or equivalent.
• Expert knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and application in a mining environment.
• Extensive knowledge of effective health and safety management strategies and best practices

Skills

• Excellent leadership, presentation and motivational skills.
• Expert negotiating skills.
• Excellent knowledge, understanding and application of industry best practice Health and Safety strategies for large-scale, continuous operational mining activities.
• Excellent cognitive and analytical skills with understanding of Health and Safety process improvement and incident control strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and able to assemble data and provide clear and accurate reports in both an upward and downward direction.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
• Strong computers skills especially MS Office.

Experience

• At least 8 years related experience a similar position.
• Extensive supervisory experience.
• Experience in the mining industry highly regarded.

Language

• Fluency in English essential.