Manager: Risk

About Premier FMCG

Premier FMCG is at the heart of South Africa’s FMCG industry, delivering trusted, iconic brands across our Bakery, Milling, Confectionery, Home & Personal Care and Culinary divisions. We are driven by innovation, collaboration, and a high-performance growth culture. We empower our people to strive for excellence ensuring that our products and people make a difference in the everyday lives of our consumers.

Job Purpose

To ensure sustained compliance and business continuity through the development and implementation of HSE plans, programs and initiatives with Premier staff and contractors in order to continually improve a resilient HSE culture on site.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure legal compliance with all relevant Health, Safety & Environmental Acts and legislations through
• Implementing and maintaining standards & procedures
• Ongoing training, coaching and assessment
• Evaluating and improving SOPs as needed
• Ensure business continuity by implementing and maintaining insurance related standards, addressing audit findings and putting emergency plans in place.
• To continually build a culture of health and safety and zero-injuries on site by engaging with our employees through:
• • Onboarding new employees re HSE requirements
  • Arranging Annual / Entry / Exit medicals and reporting on it
  • Creating and providing toolbox talks for the Invocoms
  • Contributing to the site and corporate newsletter
  • Addressing any unsafe behaviours and unsafe conditions
  • Providing HSE legal compliance training
  • Enabling and coordinating monthly HSE representatives
  • Coordinating monthly fire fighting drill competitions
  • Recognising excellence for the site when observed
  • Reinforcing compliance to policies and procedures
  • Advising the management team on all HSE risk mitigation matters
  • Reporting and or recommending solutions on health and safety to management by improvement opportunities and or preventative measures
• To prevent incidents, injuries and property damage by proactively identifying and addressing hazards to reduce and or minimise possible risks.
• To eliminate and reduce loss and theft to company by implementing control measures, proper investigation of any crime or loss incidents and continuous improvement of site and asset protection.
• Manage outsourced service providers and ad hoc contractors through their relevant managers and the implementation and monitoring of performance against their SLA’s/ contracts in regular meetings/ Invocoms.
• Ensure continually development of HSE on site through regular internal (Premier STAR) and external auditing.
• To support management decision making by regular reporting on HSE trends and KPI’s and making recommendations on areas for improvement, guiding and advising the team on all HSE areas for compliance, whilst executing HSE programmes in line with the agreed budget and targets.

Experience and Qualifications

To perform effectively in this role, the following minimum qualifications and work experience are required:

• HSE/ Risk Manager from FMCG environment - 2-3 Years - Essential
• Managing outsourced service providers - 2-3 Years – Essential
• SAMTRAC / NEBOSH IGC Essential
• HSE diploma in HSE – Essential
• HIRA Training certificate - Essential
• HSE Degree – Desirable

Skills and Competencies

• Incident investigation techniques and procedures
• Risk Assessment and Safe work procedures
• Auditing
• MS Office suite skills
• Third party/ contractor management skills
• Budget planning and control skills
• Disciplinary process and procedures
• Coaching and training skills
• Analytical skills
• Following Instructions and Procedures
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Planning and Organising
• Adhering to Principles and Values
• Relating and Networking
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Persuading and Influencing
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
• Working with People
• Analysing
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks

Working Conditions

• Ability to work in a team environment
• Extra hours when required – as per management discretion
• Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential information
• Pressurised role, deadline driven
• Ability to work with minimum supervision

Diversity & Inclusion

Premier FMCG is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including people living with disabilities. By applying, you consent to the processing of your personal information in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act) for recruitment purposes.

Closing Date: 20 November 2026