Safety and Fleet Manager

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It's who we are as a company. It's our culture. It's our heritage. And more than ever, it's our future. A future where we're always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life's moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together - when we combine your strengths with ours - is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to provide on the ground technical and operational support to the Safety/Fleet management function, thereby ensuring that the Company operates in a lawful and ethical manner, abiding to the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Road Transport Act, Governance Codes (Combined Code)of practice pertaining to Safety and Fleet Management. Ensuring adherence to AB-InBev Safety Policies, Standards, Corporate Governance and 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
• To ensure compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 93 and municipal bi-laws
• Maintain healthy relationships with local authorities across the region with 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
• Dotted line support to the Fleet/Safety Supervisors, with regular support sessions
• Overall accountable for providing strong safety leadership and guidance to the regional business units
• To drive the DPO Safety/Fleet pillar roll out and develop standards aligned to not only the DPO requirements but to local legislation
• To 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
• Ensure accurate reporting on CR360 of all SIF, fatalities and SIO’s
• Ensure that AB InBev Safety reporting guidelines are adhered to
• To monitor/advise on the Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental program performance
• Reports on Fleet availability for the region, with action plans to ensure fleet availability and accuracy of information
• To manage internal self-audits and ensure all audit findings are closed
• Identify SHE training needs
• Arrange and co-ordinate legal training for employees and contractors
• To ensure Fleet master data accuracy on SAP COF, Licensing and load testing execution to be planned to avoid unavailability of equipment
• Ensures compliance with the National Road Traffic Act 93 of 1996
• Implementation and execution of all the requirements in the National transport policy
• Manage expenditure against the budget (VLC) with monthly latest estimate (LE) aligned to period phasing

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• 5-7 years fleet functional work experience
• Applicable Occupational Health and Safety Act of 93, South African Road Traffic Act and governance knowledge
• Business and financial acumen
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word and knowledge of SAP
• Strong analytical ability demonstrated
• Good performance track record

Additional Information: Band: VI South African Breweries Pty (ltd) is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB Pty (ltd) 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.

The South African Breweries (SAB) has reimagined what a beer company can be and has anchored this in a powerful brand purpose - We Dream Big to Create a Future With More Cheers - which articulates who we are and where we are going. At SAB it's always about more than the beer. We are driven by our passion to demonstrate the unique power of beer to propel South Africa forward. Since our inception over a century ago, SAB has grown to become South Africa's largest brewer, a powerful economic contributor, a leader in sustainability, and a champion of responsible consumption. SAB is one of South Africa’s admired companies and corporate brands. The company has 7 breweries and 42 depots in South Africa, a total workforce of approximately 5000, and supports a beer economy 'from seed to sip' of over 250 000 jobs. Its portfolio of beer brands meets the needs of a wide range of consumers and includes leading brands in beer and beyond such as Castle Lager, Carling Black Label, Corona, Brutal Fruit, and Flying Fish