Regional Safety & Fleet Manager

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The key purpose is to provide on the ground technical and operational support, overseeing professional safety/fleet management services thereby ensuring that the company operates in a lawful and ethical manner, abides to the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Road Transport Act, Governance Codes (Combined Code) of practice pertaining to Safety and Fleet Management. Also adhering to ABInBev Safety Policy and Standards and Corporate Governance and ensuring protection of stakeholder interests through the mitigation at source of loss and safety risk, pure and speculative across the broad spectrum of the ABInBev  operations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Overall responsible for the implementation of the Zone/BU safety and Fleet strategy
• Responsible for the regional fleet/safety performance tracking and course-correcting
• Ensuring compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 93 and municipal bi-laws
• Maintain healthy relationships with local authorities across the region of established interaction routines
• Accountable to providing sustainable fleet/safety support to the region, warehouses, tier 2 truck fleet services, tier 1 fleet support and the commercial operations
• Provide support to the FLEET/SAFETY supervisors, with regular support sessions
• Provide strong safety leadership and guidance to the regional business units
• Drive the DPO Safety/Fleet pillar roll out and develop standards aligned to not only the DPO requirements but to the local legislations
• Develop and maintain regional safety standards to minimize losses, ensure compliance to legal provisions (e.g. OHS Act, Environmental Act, COID Act) and limit legal liability exposures.
• Insure accurate reporting on CR360 of all SIF, fatalities and SIO’s
• Monitor/advise on the Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental program performance
• Ensure fleet availability accuracy for the region with action plans
• To manage internal self-audits and ensure all audit findings are closed
• Identify SHE is training needs, arrange and co-ordinate legal training for employees and contractors
• Ensure Fleet master data accuracy on SAP
• Plan COF, Licensing and load testing execution to avoid unavailability of equipment 
• Ensure compliance with the National Road Traffic Act 93 of 1996
• Implement and execute all the requirements in the National transport policy
• Manage expenditure against the budget (VLC) with monthly latest estimate (LE) align to period phasing

Key Attributes and Competencies:

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• 2 – 5 years fleet & safety functional work experience.
• Applicable Occupational Health and Safety Act of 93
• South African Road Traffic Act and governance knowledge

Additional Information:

• Band: VII

SAB/AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short listing.

In accordance with South African Breweries (Pty) Ltd duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is safe for of our employees and their families, our customers and visitors, and the community at large from infectious diseases that may be reduced by vaccinations, we require all new appointments to be vaccinated as a condition of employment at our company.