Risk Advisor at Anglo American

Purpose

• The purpose is to enhance safety, health, and operational efficiency by proactively identifying and managing risks, implementing robust management methodologies, and optimising mining operations while ensuring compliance and environmental responsibility.

Your duties will include:

• 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.
• Monitor the compliance of PTO schedules in sections.
• Identify and prioritise Bow Ties and life cycle WRACs to be conducted.
• Coordinate the facilitation and sign-off for Bow Ties and WRACs.
• Responsible for Monitoring and reviewing the Risk Critical Control Register (RCCR) populated on Isometrix.
• Responsible for identifying Critical control improvements and action plans, logs and tracking to ensure closeout.
• Identify critical control monitoring requirements, frequency, and risk owners.
• Populate initial Baseline and reviews thereof on the Isometrix system.
• Coordinating 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• National Diploma in Safety OR Risk Management or relevant Technical Qualification (NQF6).
• Relevant certificates in ISO management systems (9001, 14001, 18001) will be advantageous.
• SA Drivers License

Experience

• 3 – 5 years of operational safety/risk experience in a mining environment (preferably open cast).
• Knowledge and experience with risk techniques such as WRAC, Bowtie 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.