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SHE Manager, AMET
Rosslyn, South Africa OR Cairo, Egypt
Role Overview
The Regional Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Manager – Africa & Middle East (AMET) is responsible for leading and driving SHE performance across SC Johnson's five manufacturing sites in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Based in either Rosslyn, South Africa or Cairo, Egypt the role provides technical leadership, operational oversight and execution accountability to ensure compliance with applicable SHE legislation, SC Johnson global standards and established regional performance objectives.
The successful candidate will be a highly experienced, hands-on SHE leader with a proven track record of identifying operational risks, implementing sustainable corrective actions, strengthening process safety and delivering measurable improvements in manufacturing SHE performance.
Working closely with plant leadership, site SHE professionals and regional supply chain stakeholders, the role will drive SHE operational excellence, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, incident prevention, risk reduction and SHE capability development.
Success requires the ability to move effectively between strategic leadership and practical site-level execution, influence operational decision-making, challenge ineffective controls and ensure that SHE improvement commitments translate into verified and sustainable results.
Responsibilities:
SHE Leadership and Culture: Drives a proactive SHE culture across the five AMET manufacturing sites by partnering with plant leadership teams to strengthen operational ownership, employee engagement and accountability for SHE performance.
Regional SHE Strategy and Execution: Leads the deployment and execution of SC Johnson's global SHE standards, regional strategies and improvement initiatives, translating objectives into actionable site-specific plans with clear ownership, measurable milestones and sustainable results.
Regulatory Compliance and Assurance: Ensures effective implementation of regulatory compliance programmes, including legal requirements, permits and licenses, compliance assessments and audits, maintaining site readiness and driving timely resolution of identified gaps.
Process Safety and Major Hazard Management: Provides technical leadership and oversight of process safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals, flammable liquids and gases, fire and explosion hazards, hazardous area classification and critical engineering and operational controls.
Critical Risk Identification and Reduction: Leads initiatives to identify, assess and reduce significant SHE risks, including serious injury and fatality exposures, hazardous energy isolation, machine safeguarding, confined spaces, electrical safety, working at heights and contractor safety.
Corrective and Preventive Action Management: Drives effective CAPA governance across the region, ensuring robust root cause analysis, clear accountability, timely implementation and documented verification of corrective action effectiveness.
Incident Investigation and Prevention: Leads the investigation and review of significant SHE incidents, ensuring thorough root cause identification, effective preventive actions and systematic deployment of lessons learned across manufacturing sites.
Environmental Management: Provides leadership in environmental compliance and risk reduction, including hazardous waste management, air emissions, wastewater, chemical storage and handling, environmental…