Job Purpose

An external vacancy exists for a Superintendent Health Management within the Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) & Protection Services (PS) Department reporting to the Manager: HSE & PS. The primary purpose of the role is to lead and oversee the effective management of Occupational Health and Wellness across the organisation, ensuring that employees’ health risks arising from work and workplace exposures are identified, assessed, monitored and appropriately controlled. The role provides the strategic direction, governance, assurance and specialist oversight required to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, regulatory requirements and Organizational standards.

Key Performance Areas

• Providing visible leadership on HSE matters, promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring that HSE is integrated into operational planning, decision-making and day-to-day activities.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable HSE legislation, permits, standards and company requirements, and ensuring that identified gaps are addressed within agreed timeframes.
• Ensuring timely reporting, investigation and close-out of incidents, near misses and other HSE events, with appropriate corrective and preventive actions implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Defining targets and Key Performance Indicators for direct reports and actively managing performance and talent.
• Establishing long-term objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to optimize performance by assisting with the development and submission for approval of HSE objectives, targets and strategies for Rössing.
• Ensuring that systems are in place to measure, prevent and mitigate health impacts through continuous support and improvement of health management performance by applying an appropriate level of technical knowledge in the management of Health as well as Environmental and Safety risks; establishing and maintaining effective occupational medical surveillance systems based on identified occupational health risks and exposure profiles.
• Managing and maintaining high levels of Occupational Health competency by providing guidance, support and management of HSE Programs and Standards through coaching, training and mentoring as well as communicating Occupational Health, medical surveillance, fitness-for-work and Wellness information through oral briefings, written documents and workshops and developing the competency of Occupational Health personnel in the identification, assessment and management Of occupational health risks and associated medical surveillance requirements.
• Conducting system and performance audits across all areas of the Mine in conformance with RUL requirements and International Standards relevant to Occupational Health.
• Auditing the effectiveness and compliance of Occupational Health programmes, including occupational medical surveillance, fitness-for-work processes and Occupational Hygiene Monitoring.
• Compile an annual budget for the section, approving and monitoring expenditure, and rectifying over expenditure.
• Compile Capital Appropriation Plans for major projects that will contribute to improvement of Occupational health Management in line with business planning.
• Accountable for developing and maintaining a continuous improvement culture within the HSE & PS department where all employees are encouraged and supported to improve the workplace. This includes the establishment of formal Business improvement systems and processes to drive improvement.

Minimum Requirements and Experience

•     4-year Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, or a related science field, such as Environmental Health Management. (NQF Level 7/8) with Seven (7) years relevant     experience in cross functional level such as Safety, Health or Environmental of which 3 years should have been at supervisory level.
•       Police certificate of conduct not older than six months is required. A record will not automatically disqualify candidates.

     Licenses/Certifications

•        Valid code (B) Driver’s License.

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    Required Technical Competencies & Skills

Application closing date – 15 October 2026

Preference is given to candidates from designated groups in line with Company policy on employment equity.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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