HSE & Administration Manager

Position Summary:

At Syngenta our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. To support this mission Syngentas Research & Development / HSE Team is seeking an HSE & Administration Manager in Bethlehem South Africa. This role will establish lead maintain and improve an integrated HSE management across all sites in the Seeds business unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for the implementation of all HSE standards guidelines and legislation related to the Syngenta Seeds operations providing direction and support to internal and external stakeholder and coordinating health safety and environmental programs ensuring safety and compliance in the workplace.

Accountabilities:

• Leading the site HSE management system ensuring its effective implementation maintenance and continual improvement in line with company standards business objectives and applicable South African legal and permit requirements
• Providing visible HSE leadership and advice to site leadership building a proactive safety culture through workplace presence accountability and the integration of HSE into daily operational decision-making
• Identifying assessing and controlling operational risks across production maintenance laboratories warehouses field activities projects and support services
• Ensuring critical controls safe systems of work permits and Life-Saving Rules are consistently applied and verified
• Ensuring legal environmental and occupational-health compliance including management of hazardous substances and waste water and spill prevention industrial hygiene employee wellness legal registers licenses and statutory reporting
• Leading incident prevention learning and ensuring incidents near misses and environmental events are thoroughly investigated and accurately reported followed by effectiveness verified timely corrective and preventive actions
• Managing HSE assurance and performance improvement trend analysis management reviews and closure of findings and improvement actions
• Maintaining emergency preparedness and site resilience and coordinating emergency response plans drills crisis readiness business-continuity activities site security interfaces in collaboration with relevant external emergency services
• Ensuring contractors visitors and project HSE governance are adequately prequalified and inducted
• Providing performance monitoring capital-project oversight management of change and pre-start-up safety reviews
• Building HSE capability across the site through training competency programmes and coaching for employees supervisors and contractor leaders with particular focus on high-risk work and operational discipline
• Leading the sites administrative governance and coordination by ensuring accurate records controls budget administration procurement and service-provider coordination facilities support and efficient administrative processes that enable compliance and reliable site operations
• Benchmarking HSE performance against industry best practices and implementing innovative solutions that improve operational excellence
• Collaborating closely with regional country and Global HSE teams to implement corporate initiatives share best practices and standardize HSE processes
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to eliminate risk improve compliance simplify processes and enhance overall HSE performance
• Maintaining accurate HSE documentation records legal registers permits licenses and management review reports

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Health safety or equivalent field
• Minimum 5 years of experience of managing safety on multiple sites in a similar environment
• Experience of Health Safety Environment and Quality standards such as ISO 9001 ISO 14001 OSHAS 18001 and ISO4500
• Relevant experience in the Seed industry - advantageous
• Strong applicable knowledge of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act its regulation and other environmental legislation
• Knowledge of Health and Safety Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and environmental impact assessment
• Knowledge in controlling hazardous substances driving safety and contractor management

Additional Information :

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time