SHE Specialist

Bei Roche kannst du ganz du selbst sein und wirst für deine einzigartigen Qualitäten geschätzt. Unsere Kultur fördert persönlichen Ausdruck, offenen Dialog und echte Verbindungen. Hier wirst du für das, was du bist, wertgeschätzt, akzeptiert und respektiert. Dies schafft ein Umfeld, in dem du sowohl persönlich als auch beruflich wachsen kannst. Gemeinsam wollen wir Krankheiten vorbeugen, stoppen und heilen und sicherstellen, dass jeder Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung hat – heute und in Zukunft. Werde Teil von Roche, wo jede Stimme zählt.

Die Position

The Opportunity

At Roche, we believe care should start before disease takes hold. In this critical role based at our Cape Town site, you will serve as a vital technical advisor and legislative interpreter to protect our most valuable human, reputational, and operational resources. You will balance field-based hazard control with high-level knowledge transformation, synthesizing complex regulatory requirements into actionable guidance to advance employee well-being, safety, and long-term organizational stability.

Your Impact

• Conduct routine safety audits, facility assessments, and vendor inspections to ensure strict compliance with local occupational health and safety legislation and global directives.
• Facilitate daily operational risk assessments and document standardized Workplace Health Risk Assessments (WHRA) across active production floors and laboratory zones.
• Monitor and analyze safety metrics, tracking leading and lagging indicators to proactively predict risk and design continuous mitigation strategies.
• Deliver engaging safety orientations, inductions, and e-courses, effectively translating technical regulatory compliance content into accessible learning for all personnel.
• Support the implementation of Injury, Illness and Prevention Programs (IIPPs), emergency action setups, and specialized site first-responder protocols.
• Partner closely with site management and People& Culture during root-cause incident investigations, managing data tracking, claim documentation, and return-to-work initiatives.
• Maintain mandatory compliance logs, ensure safety data sheets remain current, and design highly visual safety dashboards that convey hazard levels at a glance.

Who You Are

You are an analytical, collaborative, and forward-thinking safety professional who uses excellent judgment to resolve complex technical challenges. You bring a natural diplomat with superior communication skills, able to navigate sensitive inquiries with tact and build trusted relationships across all organizational levels.

To set yourself up for success, you bring:

• Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related scientific discipline. A postgraduate qualification is considered an advantage.
• Experience: 3 to 7 years of safety experience gained within a production or manufacturing environment. Direct exposure to pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing environments is highly advantageous.
• Regulatory Expertise: Explicit knowledge of national health and safety legislation (such as the OSHAct), risk assessment methodologies, and safety data protocols.
• Specialized Safety Knowledge: A foundational understanding of Biosafety Levels (BSL-1 through BSL-3), industrial hygiene principles (air monitoring, fume hoods, noise levels), and chemical hygiene practices.
• Operational Agility: Strong digital literacy (Microsoft Office and safety databases). You are physically comfortable navigating a large campus, wearing required protective equipment, and working around specialized environments like cold rooms or laboratories.

Let’s thrive together in a culture built on trust, collaboration, respect, and high performance.

Wer wir sind

Eine gesündere Zukunft treibt uns zur Innovation an. Mehr als 100.000 Mitarbeiter weltweit arbeiten gemeinsam daran, wissenschaftliche Fortschritte zu erzielen und sicherzustellen, dass jeder Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung hat – heute und für zukünftige Generationen. Durch unser Engagement werden über 26 Millionen Menschen mit unseren Medikamenten behandelt und mehr als 30 Milliarden Tests mit unseren Diagnostik-Produkten durchgeführt. Wir ermutigen uns gegenseitig, neue Möglichkeiten zu erkunden, Kreativität zu fördern und hohe Ziele zu setzen, um lebensverändernde Gesundheitslösungen zu liefern.

Gemeinsam können wir eine gesündere Zukunft gestalten.

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