Risk, Safety, Health and Environment Specialist Northern Region Job at National Breweries Plc

NATIONAL BREWERIES PLC

VACANCY

National Breweries Plc is Zambia’s leading producer and distributor of Traditional African Beer. Our affiliation to Delta Beverages gives our employees a sense of pride and that of belonging to one of the biggest international brewing companies in the world. The Company offers opportunities for all to learn to develop and grow, whilst offering challenging career opportunities for lateral or vertical advancement.

We are inviting applications to fill the following vacant position:

Risk, Safety, Health and Environment Specialist Northern Region

Contract: Permanent

Reporting to the Engineering Executive, the successful candidate will be accountable for the following:

• Lead the region in the implementation of Risk, Safety, Health and Environmental policies and standards in liaison with the Engineering Executive.
• Guideline management in the planning and implementation of Safety, Health and Environmental management systems based on OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001, NOSA & other management systems and ensuring compliance with all applicable legislation.
• Develop and maintain strategies to excel in the prevention of accidents and environmental pollution in liaison with the Engineering Executive.
• Lead in the organization and maintenance of internal safety, health and environmental communication systems such as the formation of the departmental safety, health and environmental discussion groups.
• Implement suitable safety, health and environmental training programmes such as induction in liaison with the Human Resources Department.
• Conduct planned, special and routine safety, health, environmental audits, assessments and inspections and ensure the involvement of target departments for best practice and compliance with standards, procedures and the law.
• Formulate the agenda and carry out local periodic reviews of the safety, health and environmental management systems with management for continual improvement.
• Ensure that all new projects and operations have are risk assessed beforehand and reviews made to the environmental aspects and the health and safety hazard registers.
• Maintain the accident, hazard and environmental aspects registers together with all the other systems documents and ensure the internal reporting and investigation of incidents, accidents and environmental events to prevent a recurrence.
• Report all statutory reportable accidents in liaison with the Engineering Executive; while referring enigmatic cases to the same office of the Engineering Executive.
• Implement and periodically test an emergency preparedness plan and reporting on its performance.
• Immediate investigation of community environmental complaints to reduce recurrence.

The job is particularly suitable for candidates who meet the following minimum requirements and possess the following attributes.

• Grade 12 Certificate or equivalent
• A University degree in Environmental Science and Health or equivalent
• One (1) year as a Risk, Safety, Health, and Environmental Officer or equivalent in an industrial or mining environment.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS

Interested persons should forward their applications and CV’s later than 5th July 2019 to;

The Human Resources Business Partner
National Breweries Plc
Sheki Sheki Road
PO Box 35135
Lusaka

Email address: [email protected]

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