Safety Manager Role Available

Main tasks

1. Strategy & Company Objectives

• Understand, apply, and effectively communicate the Boortmalt mission and vision, ensuring alignment with the expectations and values defined by the Group SHE Manager.
• Translate the overall Group SHE strategy into a national action plan, ensuring effective implementation and ongoing monitoring of results.

2. Business Results

• Demonstrate strong leadership by making decisive choices when required, coaching and supporting the team to foster motivation and achieve or exceed set targets.
• Take full ownership of results by ensuring optimal use of human and material resources, proactively initiating corrective actions without reliance on Group SHE Manager intervention.
• Collaborate closely with country and site management teams to understand key performance drivers, budget deviations, and operational challenges, and to implement corrective measures when necessary.
• Prepare and deliver accurate, timely reports in line with Group standards to keep the Group SHE Manager and country management informed, using insights to continuously improve performance.

3. Organizational Structure & Processes

• Develop and implement SHE-related processes, policies, and controls within the approved strategy, ensuring consistent execution and corrective action where required.
• Lead continuous risk assessment activities by identifying key operational risks and defining and implementing effective mitigation plans.
• Define country-level SHE leading and lagging KPIs aligned with global SHE KPIs and promote a culture of continuous improvement to progressively enhance SHE performance.
• Regularly assess internal and external stakeholder satisfaction and translate feedback into improvement action plans.
• Prepare and manage the annual SHE budget.
• Communicate, implement, and monitor SHE procedures, instructions, and safety and security standards in collaboration with managers and employees across the organization.
• Maintain the SHE management system, including internal consistency, document management, and document control.
• Develop, own, and execute the rolling safety roadmap, ensuring timely completion of planned actions.

4. SHE Culture

• Actively promote and support a zero-accident and zero-incident culture by leveraging all available SHE and management tools.
• Ensure all workplaces comply with safety, environmental, and health requirements, implementing corrective measures when deviations are identified.
• Implement company safety policies and training programs, support accident and incident investigations, identify root causes, and define corrective and preventive actions.
• Establish and manage a safety observation reporting process, encouraging staff participation and guiding employees in hazard identification and risk awareness.

5. SHE Awareness

• Actively participate in internal meetings addressing SHE-related topics required to achieve company SHE objectives.
• Play an active role in Safety Committees, working closely with local management teams.

6. Coaching & Development of Human Capital

• Coordinate SHE-related activities across the regional organization through functional leadership, strong collaboration, and influence over regional and local management teams to ensure compliance with safety standards.

7. Auditing & Compliance

• Ensure full compliance with applicable safety, environmental, and legal requirements, as well as Group standards and industry best practices.
• Support the business by conducting internal audits to verify compliance with accreditation requirements and company standards.
• Oversee waste management and disposal processes in accordance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Manage the security function, including team performance and processes, contribute to Crisis Management Team inputs, and organize and schedule Crisis Management meetings.

Master we are looking for ?

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field. Additional certification in Health, Safety, and Environment (e.g., ISO 45001, ISO 14001) is an advantage.
• 3–6 years of proven experience in a Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) role, preferably within a manufacturing or industrial setting. Experience in implementing SHE management systems, conducting risk assessments, and leading audits and training programs is required.
• Fluent in Amharic and English.

Masters of Malt's treasure

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

“Strive” - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.

“Care” - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.

“Inspire” - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

“Explore” – thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.

Skills Required:

• Automotive
• Chemistry / Chemical / Engineering
• Civil / Engineering / Cotm
• Electrician / Electronics / Electrical / Engineering
• Environmental / Natural / Resource
• Food / Technology / Science / Engineering
• Health / Medical
• Hydraulics / Water / Engineering
• Industrial / Manufacturing
• Mechanics / Mechanical / Engineering
• Quality / Safety