SHERQ And Sustainability Manager

Job Purpose To lead and manage SHERQ and sustainability operations, ensuring legal compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement. The role is responsible for standardising systems and procedures, maintaining certifications (ISO 14001, ISO 45001, FSSC 22000), driving ESG strategy and supporting operational excellence through audits, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision-making.

It also plays a key role in coaching teams, managing change, and aligning SHERQ and ESG practices with strategic business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Lead statutory inspections and ensure alignment with OHS, Environmental, R638, Marsh, AON, and other regulatory standards. Ensure legal registers are maintained and current across all sites. Review and improve fire safety and emergency preparedness procedures. Support sites in preparing for external risk audits (e.g., Marsh) and drive audit readiness programmes.

Provide input on legal compliance and internal controls to mitigate operational and SHERQ risks. Monitor forthcoming and proposed legislative changes and drive their implementation. Ensure SHERQ and ESG compliance extends to VTM and office environments. Audit Certification: Plan and oversee ISO, legal, and risk audits nationally (ISO 14001, ISO 45001, FSSC 22000).

Monitor SHERQ audit performance and integrate audits for efficiency. Support sites in retaining existing certifications and attaining new ones. Conduct site audits to identify non-conformances and ensure effective closure. Evaluate management system effectiveness, verify corrective actions prevent recurrence, and implement shared audit learnings across regions and sites.

Standardisation Continuous Improvement: Drive standardisation of SHERQ and ESG systems, procedures, and documentation across all regions. Lead Centre of Excellence initiatives to embed consistent practices and toolkits. Monitor SHERQ operational trends and implement forward-thinking improvements. Drive SHERQ and ESG projects (e.

g., site mergers, upgrades, software implementation). Benchmark best practices and define criteria and methods to assess the effectiveness of operational processes and controls. ESG strategy and Reporting: Support the execution of Vector’s ESG strategy, including project tracking and reporting. Develop, communicate and monitor SHERQ and ESG performance indicators, and escalate adverse trends and concerns to the SHERQ Executive.

Identify opportunities and threats and involve management in implementing response plans. Stakeholder Engagement Support: Engage with customers, principals, and service providers to resolve complaints, recalls, and investigations. Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Risk, PBCS, VTM, and SHERQ teams to meet strategic goals.

Advise and support teams on new and existing SHERQ legislation and standards. Attend meetings and represent SHERQ in customer and principal engagements. Training Capability Building: Coach and mentor SHERQ teams in delivering ESG and SHERQ support. Facilitate training on statutory compliance, safety, food safety, and environmental standards.

Promote a culture of safety, sustainability, and accountability across the network. Systems Documentation: Ensure documentation systems are current, practical, and user-friendly. Maintain internal and external audit schedules. Ensure timely and complete submission of all required reports. Validate report accuracy and ensure identified improvement opportunities are addressed.

Key Relationships Internal High degree of interaction for the purpose of strategy, compliance, training and collaboration. Exrernal Moderate to high degree of interaction for the purpose of issue resolution, audits relationship management Auditors High degree of interaction for the purpose of compliance, certification and inspections.