Site Engineering & EHS Lead

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role

This role is responsible for leading all environmental, health, safety, and engineering operations within the site, while ensuring strong legal, statutory, and governance oversight for EHS, plant, machinery, utilities, facilities, maintenance, and capital delivery.

This position ensures the site is meeting the global and local environmental, health, and safety requirements; engineering projects are executed effectively; utilities and facilities are maintained to ensure safety, compliance, and productivity; OT/IT infrastructure and cybersecurity compliance; and maintenance of the production systems to enable production reliability.

The role requires a leader who can combine technical depth with sound business fundamentals, commercial acumen, and strategic thinking to support site performance, cost competitiveness, compliance, risk management, productivity, and long-term growth.

Key responsibilities

Leadership and Management

• Lead the EHS and Engineering team of 20-50 people based on size of plant to deliver against the Site Objectives: Vision setting, objective setting, execution coaching, evaluation of progress, staffing, team engagement, career coaching.

Site Safety Management

• Have Duty Holder understanding of the environmental, health, and safety standards to ensure that the site has the governance, systems, and processes to meet the global and local standards.
• Staff the EHS and W team to have the skills to meet the sufficient level of expertise and execution in the high hazard systems.
• Coach site EHS leader on safety cultural programs that ensure that safety is owned by everyone in the site.

Legal, Statutory and Governance Accountability

• Ensure the site meets South African EHS and engineering legal requirements, including the OHS Act, environmental obligations, plant and machinery compliance, utilities, facilities, contractor safety, emergency preparedness, and statutory inspections.
• Provide oversight of statutory appointments and legal duty holders, including GMR 2.1 machinery supervision, legal registers, permits, risk assessments, incident investigations, corrective actions, and compliance records.
• Ensure compliance risks are identified, escalated, and closed with clear ownership, evidence, and governance.

Engineering and Capital Project Management Leadership

• Lead the site capital systems and project team to deliver projects with excellence: deliver cost, schedule, safety/quality, OEE, and other business criteria.
• Ensure that the financial management of projects meets financial compliance expectations.
• Support the definition of investments that enable the site objectives: Savings, Growth, and compliance.

Automation/OT/IT Management

• Ensure of the execution of the maintenance and cybersecurity of the OT infrastructure along with ensuring the installation of automation technology needed to deliver the site productivity and growth goals at the lowest OPEX.

Business Fundamentals and Commercial Acumen

• Translate site strategy and business priorities into practical EHS and Engineering plans that improve safety, quality, service, cost, compliance, reliability, and productivity.
• Demonstrate sound financial discipline in managing budgets, capital investment, maintenance spend, asset lifecycle decisions, savings delivery, and return on investment.
• Use data, performance metrics, risk-based decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration to support business continuity, operational resilience, and sustainable site growth.

Utilities/Facilities/Maintenance Management

• Lead the team of resources responsible for the maintenance of the utilities, facilities, and production equipment maintenance to eliminate major breakdowns and ongoing system maintenance at 4-5% of the planned production time.

Future-Focused Engineering and World-Class Manufacturing

• Lead the site’s engineering roadmap toward a world-class manufacturing facility by progressing automation, digital manufacturing, smart maintenance, energy efficiency, asset reliability, data-enabled decision-making, and future-fit manufacturing technologies.
• Identify and implement scalable engineering solutions that improve OEE, reduce losses, strengthen compliance, enable capacity growth, and support the introduction of new technologies and production platforms.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution to move the site toward benchmark performance in safety, quality, service, cost, people capability, and sustainability.

Collaborate with SLT and Global resources to deliver QSC Excellence

• Continuous Improvement: Regularly look for manufacturing improvements to deliver site business needs
• Stakeholder Communication: Regularly communicate progress, challenges, and successes to Site Leader. This includes preparing and presenting reports, facilitating sub-team meetings, and ensuring transparency and alignment across the organization.
• Risk Management: Identify and manage risks associated with EHS and Engineering. This includes conducting risk assessments, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring all activities comply with relevant regulations and company policies.

Qualifications and skills

Essential

• 4-year university degree in Engineering.
• Government Certificate of Competency (GCC), required or actively progressing toward certification, in line with site statutory requirements.
• Must meet the requirements for GMR 2.1 appointment, including the appropriate engineering competence, statutory understanding, and ability to provide effective supervision of machinery in line with South African legal requirements.

Preferred

• Master's in engineering
• 10 years in manufacturing Engineering and EHS
• Experience holding or supporting statutory engineering, machinery, EHS, or duty-holder appointments in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost drivers, capital governance, operational performance, asset reliability, and business case development.

Other Skills/Qualifications

• Understanding of manufacturing, packing, and warehouse technology; Industry standards for Project Management and Capital Systems management; and EHS local and corporate standards.
• Understanding the business strategies and how to translate the strategies into the objectives of Engineering and EHS.
• Ability to translate the innovation and growth requirements into the Safety and Quality compliant equipment solutions that meet the business timing and cost.
• Ability to define engineering solutions to business challenges at target cost and schedule, OT cybersecurity threats, natural disasters emergency response and BCP execution, and equipment productivity losses resulting in loss of production requiring engineering preventative maintenance or re-engineering.
• Innovation is required to develop new equipment options to meet capacity growth, new production introductions, and resolution of chro