Senior Advisor Occupational Health and Safety Job at Eskom Communications

Job description
Key Responsibilities:

• Assess and advise on occupational health and safety (OHS) policies, standards, procedures, systems and processes.
• Render an occupational health and safety (OHS) advisory service to the organisation.
• Identify, diagnose and advise on strategies to reduce and/or control existing occupational health and safety risks.

Skills and Competencies Required:
Behavioural:

• Integrity
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Professionalism
• Strong drive to learn
• Safety consciousness

Leadership:

• Live the NTCSA vision and values
• Grow people
• Ignite passion
• Promote teamwork
• Encourage the right behaviour
• Promote open and transparent communication
• Build effective relationships and deliver on expectations
• Coaching and mentoring
• Work as part of a team

 
Knowledge:

• Strategy formulation understanding
• Human safety performance/defence-in-depth/human error understanding
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• Superior knowledge and understanding of human behaviour an occupational health and safety
• Understand organisational behaviour
• Business process management

Skills:

• Negotiation
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• Financial management
• Communication and presentation
• Leadership
• Legal
• Results and delivery focused
• Analytical and problem solving

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s): 

• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Safety Management/Occupational Health and Safety/Environmental Health at NQF7 with 360 credits

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ related experience in Occupational health and safety.

Apply by: 12 January 2026