SUPERINTENDENT HEALTH MANAGEMENT – ROSSING URANIUM – Rossing Uranium

Key Responsibilities

• Providing visible leadership on HSE matters, promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring that HSE is integrated into operational planning, decision-making and day-to-day activities.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable HSE legislation, permits, standards and company requirements, and ensuring that identified gaps are addressed within agreed timeframes.
• Ensuring timely reporting, investigation and close-out of incidents, near misses and other HSE events, with appropriate corrective and preventive actions implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Defining targets and Key Performance Indicators for direct reports and actively managing performance and talent.
• Establishing long-term objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to optimize performance by assisting with the development and submission for approval of HSE objectives, targets and strategies for Rössing.
• Ensuring that systems are in place to measure, prevent and mitigate health impacts through continuous support and improvement of health management performance by applying an appropriate level of technical knowledge in the management of Health as well as Environmental and Safety risks; establishing and maintaining effective occupational medical surveillance systems based on identified occupational health risks and exposure profiles.
• Managing and maintaining high levels of Occupational Health competency by providing guidance, support and management of HSE Programs and Standards through coaching, training and mentoring as well as communicating Occupational Health, medical surveillance, fitness-for-work and Wellness information through oral briefings, written documents and workshops and developing the competency of Occupational Health personnel in the identification, assessment and management Of occupational health risks and associated medical surveillance requirements.
• Conducting system and performance audits across all areas of the Mine in conformance with RUL requirements and International Standards relevant to Occupational Health.
• Auditing the effectiveness and compliance of Occupational Health programmes, including occupational medical surveillance, fitness-for-work processes and Occupational Hygiene Monitoring.
• Compile an annual budget for the section, approving and monitoring expenditure, and rectifying over expenditure.
• Compile Capital Appropriation Plans for major projects that will contribute to improvement of Occupational health Management in line with business planning.
• Accountable for developing and maintaining a continuous improvement culture within the HSE & PS department where all employees are encouraged and supported to improve the workplace. This includes the establishment of formal Business improvement systems and processes to drive improvement.

Requirements

• 4-year Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, or a related science field, such as Environmental Health Management. (NQF Level 7/8) with Seven (7) years relevant experience in cross functional level such as Safety, Health or Environmental of which 3 years should have been at supervisory level.
• Police certificate of conduct not older than six months is required. A record will not automatically disqualify candidates.
• Valid code (B) Driver’s License.
• SAP and Microsoft Office proficiency, including data analysis, reporting, presentations and programme management.
• Advanced report-writing, presentation and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex Occupational Health information to employees, management and stakeholders.
• Advanced data analysis and interpretation skills, including occupational hygiene, medical surveillance, wellness and fitness-for-work data.
• Occupational Health and medical surveillance knowledge, including risk-based medical surveillance, occupational exposure risks and health assessments.
• Fitness-for-work and Occupational Hygiene knowledge, including exposure assessment, monitoring, OELS and evaluation of controls.
• Project management skills, including planning, implementation, resource management and delivery of improvement initiatives.
• Auditing and assurance skills, including compliance assessment, gap identification and corrective action management.
• Database and information management skills, ensuring accurate, confidential and accessible Occupational Health data.
• Quality assurance, problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills related to Occupational Health programmes and workplace risks.
• Knowledge Of applicable Occupational Health legislation, standards and regulatory requirements, including ISO 45001 and relevant Namibian legislation.
• Contract and service-provider management skills, including management of medical, and specialist Occupational Health providers.

How to Apply