Regional SHERQ Practitioner

Overview

We are a Supply Chain and Sales & Merchandising partner adding value to your business through a fully integrated, temperature-controlled network in Southern Africa.

But we are also more than that. We are people serving people. While we boast the best in tech and infrastructure, our people are our greatest resource. With our skilled, curious, can-do people at the forefront, our assets become your assets, our service your solutions.

Vector’s vehicle fleet includes a food industry first in ‘multi-temperature’ vehicles enabling the company to service business across frozen, chilled and ambient temperature zones on a single delivery.

• To provide Total Integrated Management System support to the Supply Chain.
• To implement and manage all food safety, quality, safety, health and environmental requirements for the regional operations.
• To constantly assess compliance with the most progressive food safety, quality, safety, health and environmental standards in the market and with Group policy.

• Develop and facilitate the implementation of the TIMS across the region or and sites and ensure alignment across the Business.
• Maintain and assess TIMS to ensure risk management, sustainability, continuous improvement and commercial benefits, improvement of storage and transportation quality, food safety and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure region/site compliance with Company and Group quality and food safety, environmental and occupational health and safety policies.
• Implement and maintain TIMS documentation.
• Develop and facilitate implementation of Health and Safety across the region and sites.
• Ensure appointments as per the OHS ACT (Health and Safety) are made, the designated individuals are capacitated and functional in their roles.
• Manage the Corrective Action System software for the region and sites.
• Manage the Change Control System software for the region and sites.
• Support the Vector SHEQ Manager in identifying food safety, environmental and occupational health and safety training for the region/site to ensure legal compliance.
• Conduct TIMS training for functional departments across the region/site.

• Develop a risk-based internal audit plan for the region and sites.
• Arrange audits with relevant Operations managers to ensure participation and clear communication.
• Perform business process audits across the region and sites
• Compile and communicate internal audit reports.
• Manage the process for tracking the status of resolution of business process audit findings for the region and sites.
• Verify audit findings are actioned and closed effectively.
• Maintain the internal audit software and its data integrity.
• Provide support in response to regional internal audit requirements.
• Conduct ISO system compliance audits to ensure compliance.

• Participate in external audits in the region and sites.
• Ensure audit findings are actioned and closed off effectively.
• Manage the process for tracking the status of resolution of external OHS audit findings.

• Develop with SHEQ Manager’s TIMS Management Review presentation for the region and sites.
• Facilitate regional food safety committee meetings.
• Facilitate regional health and safety committee meetings.
• Develop TIMS submissions to the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Participate in the Audit and Risk Sub-committee to report and reduce risks in the supply chain (food safety, quality, safety, health and environmental).
• Work in conjunction with the Vector SHEQ Manager to create the Vector SHEQ strategy as informed by the Business strategy.
• Monitor and track regional attainment of strategic and operational targets.

• Monitor the adherence of suppliers to specifications, particularly pallet construction.
• Monitor the remaining shelf-life of products at each site.
• Monitor sub-standard packaging occurrences and resolution.
• Monitor temperature compliance across the warehouse and transportation functions.

• Participate in system development and continual improvement by providing guidance to key role players.
• Provide technical insight relating to food safety, quality, safety,…