• Full Time
  • Germiston, South Africa

Eskom Communications

Eskom generates approximately 95% of the electricity used in South Africa and about 45% of the electricity used in Africa. Eskom generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural, and residential customers and redistributors. Additional power stations and major power lines are being built to meet rising electricity demand.

Senior Advisor Occupational Health and Safety

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Qualification: Bachelors
  • Experience: 5 years
  • Location: Gauteng
  • City: Germiston
  • Job Field: Safety and Environment / HSE

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assess and advise on occupational health and safety (OHS) policies, standards, procedures, systems, and processes.
  • Provide an occupational health and safety (OHS) advisory service to the organization.
  • 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 and 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

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