Risk Advisor
- Postmasburg, Northern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure safety by identifying and managing safety risks.
- Promote wellness and manage health risks for employees.
- Support work to identify, manage, and control or eliminate operational risks and help identify, manage, and benefit from operational opportunities that could impact business objectives.
- Apply appropriate management methodologies to identify operational risks and define robust critical control strategies.
- Support the implementation of Safety management systems and risk control measures for significant risks, following group guidelines and requirements.
- Coordinate the auditing of the quality of JRAs and implement the plan to improve if it is not up to standard.
- Monitor compliance with Sectional plans for the implementation of JRAs.
- Create awareness through communication on identifying critical tasks and conducting JRAs for section leads and supervisors.
- Develop a plan to improve the quality of SLAMs and PTOs if not up to standard and communicate accordingly.
- Identify and prioritise Bow Ties and life cycle WRACs to be conducted.
- Coordinate the facilitation and sign-off for Bow Ties and WRACs.
- Monitor and review the Risk Critical Control Register (RCCR) populated on Isometrix.
- Identify critical control improvements and action plans, logs, and tracking to ensure closeout.
- Identify critical control monitoring requirements, frequency, and risk owners.
- Populate the initial Baseline and reviews thereof on the Isometrix system.
- Coordinate the closeout of actions identified in Baseline to ensure that actions are implemented and the closeout of actions identified in Bow Ties and WRAC.
- Provide detailed performance reporting to track progress and identify areas for improvement.
- Risk Advisor Role Profile page 2 of 3
- The Work: Key Outputs and Accountabilities
- Manage and optimise mining and process operations for maximum efficiency.
- Mitigate environmental risk, identify opportunities, and manage resources effectively.
- Implement integrated risk management practices for streamlined operations.
- Provide specialist technical support for ORM development and implementation.
- Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments, and close-out of Safety Actions.
- National Diploma in Safety, OR Risk Management, or relevant Technical Qualification (NQF6)
- Degree in Safety OR Risk Management, or a relevant Technical Qualification (NQF7)
- Postgraduate Diploma Safety/ Risk Management / Honours Level (NQF8) (Advantageous)
- SA Drivers Licence
- Relevant certificates in ISO management systems (9001, 14001,18001) will be advantageous.
- 3 - 5 years of operational safety/risk experience in a mining environment (preferably open cast).
- Knowledge and experience with risk techniques such as WRAC, Bow-tie analysis, JAR/WED, and other recognised techniques and tools.
- Experience and knowledge of Contractor Management Systems (Passport 360).
- Knowledge of the Mine Health and Safety Act (Act 29 of 1996) and other related legislation.
- Computer Literacy: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Report writing experience /skills.
- Key value drivers within the discipline's value chain and interdependence of critical levers.
- Principles of how operational processes are classified according to the Operating Model, focusing on Work Management.
- Project management fundamentals.
- New technologies and their impact on operational activities within the scope of the role.
- Business improvement tools and techniques.
- Business acumen and commercial drivers of site performance.
- Basic financial metrics and budgeting tools.
- Leadership tools for implementing a culture of purpose-led high performance and change.
- Safety, health, environmental, legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements.