Safety Health and Environment Manager (North Africa, Levant & Iraq)

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

NALI SHE Manager has overall responsibility for managing Occupational Health, Occupational Safety & Environment agendas and frameworks to deliver Excellence on all Sites in scope (factories and Go to Market), contributing to Unilever Strategy of Vision Zero.

The incumbent has also additional responsibility to lead the SHE team, deliver SHE agenda and business partnering with Factory Leader and LT.

She/He double hats as a Country (Egypt) SHE leader and works with Category and 1 Unilever Supply Chain teams, Business Operations teams (Logistics), Workplace Services, HR and Occupational Health, Customer Development (CD) and Communications to develop SHE strategy and improvement plans to achieve sustainable SHE excellence by reducing injuries expressed in TRFR and environmental impacts such that waste, effluents, emissions, energy consumption, CO2.

Principal Responsibilities:

A) Strategy into Action, Business Partnering, Safety Governance and Culture

• Defines and leads overall implementation of SHE strategy, priorities, and roadmaps for NALI in line with overarching Global and Regional level strategy and priorities to achieve excellent sustainable results. Identifies risks and effective strategies for mitigation in close collaboration with Categories SC and BO leadership.
• Provide efficient and long-standing Business Partnering: brings expertise, risk analysis, solutions, trainings and operational support to North Africa GM, NALI SCLTs, Factory Managers, Business groups, Business Operations. Implements License to Lead and other trainings to Leadership required to operate and lead Safety agendas with confidence.
• Supports and actively participates in business continuity and crisis management pillar, coordinating IMT (incident management team) activities as a Coordinator. Coordinates delivery of capability trainings and required technical support.
• Partners with the Regional and Category env capability teams (Env and Engineering) to drive initiatives towards env compliance and sustainability. Coordinates delivery of Sustainability Roadmaps to reduce Waste, Water, Energy and CO2 footprints in factories and Logistics.
• Works together with NAMET & Pakistan SHE and Security Director to secure line leadership commitment to help promote and embed safety into Business Agendas. Personally promotes and leads by example the culture of Safety Moments, Safety Behavior Observations on the shopfloor.
• Coordinates regular CSHEC (Central Safety Health and Env) committee meetings with Egypt Supervisory Board acting as a program Custodian and a Facilitator. Ensures other NALI countries have established the same governance and cadence for meetings and comply.
• Expertly supports Egypt Safe Travel (Road Safety) committee meetings. Leads regular follow up reviews to track implementation of agreed actions.
• Defines and deploys a comprehensive Communication Plan to promote safe behaviors in the organization at all levels based on identified risks and incident trend analysis.
• Personally leads deployment of UMS (Unilever Manufacturing System) Safety & Environment /Sustainability Pillars in all NALI factories in line with Regional rollout plans.
• Coordinates risk assessment in sites and ensures adequate programs are deployed consistently to mitigate high risk activities related but not limited to Process Safety, Electrical Safety, Working @ Height, Process Safety, Permit to Work tasks, Construction Safety, Road Safety, and MMHE. Enables implementation of Industrial Hygiene programs.
• Implements minimum mandated safety standards and protocols towards 3P Collaborative Manufactures and Logistics partners, focusing on factories, logistics centers/ warehouses and transport haulers engaged to transport Unilever R&P and F&G.
• Drives fit for purpose initiatives towards safety cultural transformation across the geography using available Company tools (Be Safe, Habit Safe, etc) and external products.
• Drives implementation of the roadmap to the Carbon Scope 1&2 commitments.
• Works together with a country / national Security team to support implementation of minimum mandated requirements of Unilever physical security standard in every site. Ensures allocation of required resourcing from SHE teams to fill the role of Local Security Officer (LSO) by assigning the accountability to one of SHE professionals in each site and establishes regular performance reviews to track agenda deliverables.

B) Team Performance Management, Capabilities Development, Motivation

• Manages SHE teams responsible to deliver Occupational Health, Safety and Environment results as per established work plans
• Develops and maintains SHE teams capabilities to ensure their competencies are in line with Unilever standards and curricular (License to Operate)
• Performs Quarterly and Annual performance reviews with the team in line with Company guidelines. Creates opportunities for people development to fulfil their career aspirations. Ensures all team members have robust Future Fit Plans and reviews regularly to ensure team members live their purpose
• Confidently leads the team to ensure high performance, customer-oriented culture where professionalism, respect, diversity, equity and equality, and teamwork and collaboration, integrity and maturity is kept front and center and fostered and adhered to. Applies instruments of reward and recognition and consequence management wisely and fairly to keep team and individual morale high

C) Incident Investigations, Improvement Plans, Audits and Compliance Excellence

• Ensures timely and high-quality investigation of SHE incidents, including fatalities, serious incidents, potentially serious incidents, and other recordable incidents in line with corporate standard. Ensure system is in place to conduct post-incident reviews for all recordable cases and is personally led. Ensures Lessons Learnt are shared across the organization. Ensures expansion
• Develops, implements, and monitors the investment plans (CAPEX / OPEX) to reduce or minimize SHE risks in sites.
• Ensures constant improvement in PAR (Positive Assurance) scores across all sites and compliance with Unilever Framework Standards and Functional Standards
• Acts as a Compliance officer for SHE through establishing a system of internal and external audits of organizational processes against Unilever SHE standards on a set frequency. Prepares yearly audit plan. Conducts internal audits for plants, warehouses, and toll manufacturers.
• Provides SHE performance overview to Senior Management annually.
• Works together with the Health Department to ensure Occupational Health risks are evaluated and relevant risk reduction programs are implemented to prevent work related occupational diseases.
• Works together with Workplace Services (WPS) Department to ensure delivery of risk reduction programs for office and R&D environments
• Work with regulatory bodies on ensuring the site meets all local, national, legal and Unilever standards on occupational Health personnel to identify and mitigate risks which may lead to occupational ill health
• Tracks changes to National applicable legislation and norms and ensures requirements are acted upon in a timely manner to prevent Company exposure of non-compliance and fees. Plays an important advisory role in setting up new policies, norms, and regulations, sharing information with key internal customers

Job Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• 7 – 10 years of experience in SHE role
• Excellent Verbal & Written Communication Skills
• Advanced mentoring and coaching skills
• Senior Stakeholder management skills
• Advanced Project Management Skills
• Good observation and auditing skills
• University Science and Engineering degree qualification advantage
• Solid experience in Supply Chain
• Excellent knowledge of SHE ISO standards
• Good knowledge of Process Safety
• Strong knowledge of Behavior Based Safety methodology and a track record of implementation of the same
• Strong negotiation skills
• FMCG or O&G background in SHE and/ or Manufacturing or Logistics
• NEBOSH IGC certification is a great plus

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