Safety Superintendent Contractors Academy

Glencore is one of the worlds largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that advance everyday life.

With over 140,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 30 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of offices.

Glencores customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Safety Superintendent Contractors Academy

The incumbent in this role is responsible for providing an integrated support function for the Contractors Academy to ensure compliance to legislation, company policies, procedures and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing and maintaining a contractor management system for GCSA with specific focus on contractor safety and compliance.
• Supporting the usage of the digital Contractor Management System for tracking the Contractor Management Processes.
• Supporting Contractor Managers in performing Safety Verification and Safety Oversight activities of Contractors.
• Establishing a risk-based contractor compliance schedule and performing verification and compliance audits.
• Ensuring adherence and compliance to all relevant HSE requirements.
• Undertaking pre-qualification and routine audits of current and future contractors to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Glencore HSE Standards. 
• Establishing and maintaining systems to monitor performance of contactors against the Glencore HSE Standards.
• Identifying and recommending improvement opportunities in contractor management within GCSA.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A relevant tertiary qualification (NQF level 7) in Safety Management/ Mining / Engineering.

Minimum Experience:

• 2 Years experience at a Safety Officer level.
• Contractor management experience will be advantageous.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Ability to drill into the detail of issues to determine root cause whilst considering urgency, importance, risk and reward factors.
• Ability to carefully and objectively analyse and evaluate information to inform decisions and key actions.
• Ability to inspire and foster commitment, pride and trust amongst team members by taking a democratic approach, seeking and valuing contributions and encouraging collaboration.
• Ability to work consistently hard to achieve deliverables and honour commitments made.