SHEQ Manager

In brief

**Overview** Macsteel is seeking a SHEQ Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across the Group’s Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality functions. The company takes a conservative trading approach focused on market fundamentals and structure, supported by an experienced back-office team providing top-notch service. The role, a full-time position located in Boksburg, Gauteng, is responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, regulatory requirements, and company standards, while overseeing SHEQ management systems, risk management, audits, incident management, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. **What you will do** The SHEQ Manager will be responsible for: * **SHEQ Governance, Compliance & Management Systems**: Developing, implementing, and maintaining Group SHEQ policies, procedures, standards, management systems, and compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with applicable legislation, regulations, and organisational requirements. * **Health & Safety Management**: Overseeing occupational health and safety requirements, risk controls, occupational health and wellness processes, and corrective and preventative actions arising from incidents, audits, and inspections. * **Incident Management & Investigation**: Providing specialist support during SHEQ incident investigations, ensuring incidents are appropriately recorded, investigated, and reported, and monitoring implementation of corrective and preventative actions. * **SHEQ Audits & Assurance**: Developing and implementing the annual SHEQ audit programme, overseeing internal and external audits, reviewing findings, and ensuring corrective actions are closed within agreed timelines. * **Risk Management**: Identifying and assessing SHEQ risks, maintaining relevant risk registers, monitoring risk controls, and ensuring appropriate mitigation actions are implemented and escalated where required. * **Quality & Environmental Management**: Monitoring compliance with applicable quality and environmental requirements, managing non-conformances and corrective actions, and supporting environmental and sustainability initiatives. * **Communication, Training & Awareness**: Developing and implementing SHEQ communication and awareness programmes, coordinating SHEQ communication sessions, and identifying SHEQ training requirements in collaboration with Human Capital. * **Governance, Reporting & Stakeholder Management**: Providing specialist SHEQ advice to management and relevant stakeholders, preparing SHEQ reports, presenting key risks, trends, audit findings, and incidents, and ensuring appropriate escalation of material risks and non-compliance. * **People Management**: Leading and managing the SHEQ team, setting clear objectives and performance expectations, monitoring performance, identifying development requirements, and promoting a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing culture. * **Continuous Improvement**: Driving continuous improvement of SHEQ standards, systems, and processes to enhance compliance, risk management, and operational effectiveness. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Education & Qualifications**: * National Senior Certificate (Essential) * NQF Level 7 / 3-year Degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant discipline such as Safety Management, Environmental Management, Engineering, Operations Management or Quality Management (Essential) * Relevant SHEQ/ISO qualification or certification (Advantageous) * Qualifications specified include Bachelors, Matric, Postgraduate Diploma. * **Experience**: * Minimum 8 years’ relevant experience in SHEQ, Safety, Environmental, Quality, Operations or a related environment. * Proven management experience with responsibility for people, compliance and functional delivery. * Experience within manufacturing, engineering, heavy industry or a similar environment (Advantageous). * **Technical Proficiency**: * Intermediate to advanced SAP/ERP and MS Office proficiency, including Excel and PowerPoint. * **Skills & Attributes**: * SHEQ Management Systems and ISO * Occupational Health & Safety * Environmental Management * Quality Management * Risk Management and Incident Investigation * Audit Management and Legal Compliance * Corrective and Preventative Action Management * Strategic Thinking and Problem Solving * Decision-Making and Planning * Stakeholder Management and Communication * Presentation and Facilitation Skills * Coaching and Mentoring * Change Management * Accountability and Professional Integrity * Continuous Improvement **Who should apply** The ideal candidate for the SHEQ Manager position is a highly experienced professional with a minimum of 8 years in a relevant SHEQ, Safety, Environmental, Quality, Operations, or related environment, demonstrating proven management capabilities. They must possess a National Senior Certificate and an NQF Level 7 / 3-year Degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant discipline, with additional SHEQ/ISO qualifications considered advantageous. The candidate should have intermediate to advanced proficiency in SAP/ERP and MS Office, including Excel and PowerPoint. Experience within manufacturing, engineering, heavy industry, or a similar environment is advantageous. Essential attributes include strong skills in SHEQ Management Systems and ISO, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Management, Quality Management, Risk Management, Incident Investigation, Audit Management, Legal Compliance, and Corrective and Preventative Action Management. They should also exhibit strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, stakeholder management, communication, presentation, facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and change management skills, alongside accountability, professional integrity, and a commitment to continuous improvement. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/sheq-manager-macsteel Source: myjobmag

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• At least 8 years of experience.

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• SAP
• Health and safety (OHS)

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