Group HSSE Manager

Mainstream Renewable Power is seeking a Group HSSE Manager in Cape Town, South Africa. The role involves developing and implementing Health and Safety strategies across projects, managing regional HSSE teams, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Responsibilities include driving HSSE programs, conducting audits, and reporting performance to executives. Candidates should have a degree in health and safety, extensive experience in HSSE management, and strong project management skills.
Summary of Role:

The Group HSSE Manager will support the successful development, execution, and evolution of the Health and Safety vision, strategy and implementation across all regions. This key hire will be integrating Health and Safety policies, standards and goals across the development, construction and operations lifecycle of projects. Reporting to the Group COO, you will play a key role in leading the impact through strategy development, assessing both risks and opportunities.

You will manage the regional HSSE teams and promote best in class safety culture across all functions with the support of a world class organisation dedicated to safety.

What you will do:
• Provide strategic and operational support to regional HSSE teams for all development, construction, and operations of renewable energy sites. It is envisioned that this will involve frequent and extended visits (up to 1 week in duration) to construction and operational sites in South Africa and other Mainstream jurisdictions when they have such activity.
• Drive Mainstream's HSSE programs to international energy sector best practice standard. New perspective and ability/willingness/drive to implement change are valued.
• Forecasting & managing global HSSE budget
• Reporting HSSE performance to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.
• Defining annual Group HSSE objectives & KPIs and ensuring they are met.
• Develop, implement, and continuously review HSSE policies and procedures to ensure compliance with legal and company standards.
• Foster a 'Safety First' culture throughout all projects and departments, ensuring adherence to safety and environmental regulations and best practices. This will involve working closely with EPC contractors and their subcontractors on construction projects, working to improve the safety standards being employed by them.
• Conduct safety audits, investigate incidents, and perform risk assessments, providing actionable feedback for improvement.
• Review, validate and provide analysis of HSSE event reporting data, developing systems to identify safety-related trends.
• Setting annual audit schedule to ensure Mainstream RP standards are being maintained on all facilities
• Carrying out security risk assessment on all new potential development locations globally and ongoing monitoring of Security plans, Implementation and status on all facilities. Be proactive in modifying the approach if the security threat situation changes on any project.

What we require:
• Degree or diploma in health and safety and environment.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience applying HSSE standards in a corporate environment, ideally with project / remote sites as part of the structure
• Proven ability to manage the interfaces with and between various stakeholders at different levels
• Experience measuring and reporting on the social and environmental impacts of projects
• Experience in Health and Safety management in Renewable Energy projects will be advantageous
• Capable of managing HSSE across multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Setup and roll out of HSSE strategies and/or modification of existing standards in an organisation
• Robust project management skill set required, including contract management, contract administration, scheduling, planning, budget preparation and control.
• Should be capable of managing internal and external resources

Skills:
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in a team, coordinate and enthuse colleagues and consultants
• Strong initiative and the ability to proactively identify required tasks
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to maintain sight of the ‘big picture’ and overarching objectives at all times
• An organised approach to working, task prioritisation and time management

What we offer:

We offer you the opportunity to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial organisation, to be part of a diverse workplace with regards to gender, age and cultural background in the most exciting industry in the world today. You will receive a very competitive total benefits package, including an excellent base salary and bonus scheme.

Career development
• Excellent training (an average 54 hours a year)
• Career progression
• Self-paced online learning portal for micro courses across a range of functional and inter personal skills

Shared financial success
• A competitive, industry benchmarked and cost-of-living linked salary, reviewed annually
• Performance bonus
• Salary contribution to your pension fund and private medical cover

Work/life balance
• WFH in a hybrid working arrangement
• Generous annual leave, plus a community or charity work day each year
• Paid maternity, parental, adoptive and bereavement leave
• Parental transitional coaching

True diversity & inclusion
• Equal opportunity targets
• You can be you, whatever your gender, colour or sexual orientation

Care for health & wellbeing
• Life cover
• Free Employee Assistance Program for you and your family