Job Responsibilities:

The specific job responsibilities of the Risk Analyst shall include but will not be limited to:

Risk identification

• Conduct daily reviews of reported near misses and hazards. Risk Analysts shall then validate the risk rating before prescribing action plan(s) to remediate associated risk.
• Facilitate high quality, detailed risk assessments in targeted areas or in preparation for the implementation of change, improvements or new technologies that may impact the Health & Safety management system.

Risk measurement

• Conduct periodic reviews of consequence matrices for defined high risk areas, and define thresholds for risk analysis and response.
• Coordinate with responsible Supervisors, Coordinators and Superintendents in determining real risk potential and profile.

Risk treatment

• Upon identifying and quantifying potential risks, participate in the development of policies, procedures, systems, safe work programmes or other responses / interventions to address the quantified risk. The Risk Analyst shall ensure that the risk is reduced to as low a level as reasonably practicable.

Risk Management

• Take a leading role in consistently upgrading Trident’s standing with regard to Leading indicators.

• Conduct regular reviews of implemented Safe work programmes to ensure that implemented procedures, controls and systems are effectively and consistently minimizing the associated risk.

Event Management

• Logging, monitoring & evaluation of significant events that include: The HSMS plan, HSMS audit recommendations, ICAMs, risk registers, legal registers, etc.
• Support the operational arms of the Health & Safety department in managing event logs on the mine’s Event Management System (EMS) for purposes of generating high-value data and subsequent visuals.

Internal Audits

• Conduct scheduled Audits of the Mine Site’s Health & Safety Systems; Permit to work, Change Management, and other high risk work management systems.
• Development of action plans to correct all random and systemic errors identified in internal audits.

External Audit action plan closure

• Monitoring and evaluation of the closure rate of specific recommendations derived from external audits.
• Support Operations and maintenance teams in the implementation of compliance requirements in an effective and efficient manner.

Systems integration

• Champion projects that promote compliance through the integration of Health & Safety Management systems with security systems, training systems, as well as performance management systems.

Quality Management

• Enhance departmental reporting quality through the development of tools that provide graphical / numerical representation of abstract data, as far as is reasonably practicable.
• Serve as quality control officers in the completion of Systemic Cause Analysis Technique (SCAT) and Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) investigation reports.

Significant Incident reviews

• Periodically re-look at closed significant incidents in order to ensure that key learnings have been implemented and that root causes have been systemically worked out of Trident’s way of working.
• Compare and contrast similar events for purposes of establishing any and all correlations between different occurrences with a view of identifying and eliminated failed organizational defences.
• Recommend actions for implementation of additional controls in the event that implemented controls are found to be inadequate to eliminate the risk of incident recurrence.

Health & Safety Surveys

• Conduct targeted surveys that highlight or validate key organizational or systemic lapses within the Health & Safety management system.
• Provide detailed feedback to relevant Health & Safety Superintendents on the findings of these surveys.
• Any other job responsibilities and tasks, as prescribed by the HSMS Superintendent or Health & Safety Manager.

Job Specific Competencies:

• Strong scientific writing and critical thinking capabilities.
• Systematic thinker with a systems approach to problem definition and solving.
• Ability to apply both hard and soft controls to in risk treatment.
• A strong command in the reading and interpretation of relevant technical drawings; PFDs, P&IDs, SLDs, mine plans, site & floor plans, etc.
• Demonstrate experience in managing computer-based systems in Mining, processing or maintenance in a base metal or large processing environment.
• The ability to compile, review and validate quantitative and qualitative data required for Audits, investigations, risk reviews and Surveys (big reports).
• A strong command of the English language; written and spoken.
• The ability to provide support to mine site Operations and maintenance teams in the design and implementation of initiatives through logical evaluations, recommendations and detailed inspection reports, as required.
• Demonstrate the ability to work safely and improve team safety awareness.

Key Job Attributes:

• Traceable commitment to safety & health best practices in their field of work.
• Agile mindset, versatile skill-set, attention to detail & quick learning ability.
• Ability to proactively delegate and manage up-wards when required.
• Result-driven with an affinity for efficiency, safety and efficacy.
• Sober minded, level headed, industrious, resolute and ‘intra’-preneurial.
• Proven emotionally intelligent personality.
• A proven ability to work with other disciplines to achieve minimal risk levels in work, paralleled with minimal disruption to mine and plant operating times.
• Confident ‘on-the-feet’ thinker with strong inter-personal skills (vertical and lateral).
• Ability to work in a demanding, high-paced, fast-changing, and multi-cultural mining environment with little to no supervision.

Required Qualification and Experience:

• A full Grade 12 / Form (v) school certificate.
• As a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management or other mining-related discipline from a recognized institution. Candidates possessing a Master’s degree in a technical discipline relevant to Mining / base metal processing will be highly regarded.
• A valid Zambian vehicle driving License.
• Two years’ experience in a Supervisor / Coordinator / Lead role.
• As a minimum, Computer literate in all the Microsoft packages.
• Highly capable in mine-relevant software systems, including Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs), Control Systems and Event Management Systems (EMSs).
• Some exposure to programming, coding or other HMI manipulation or control.

• Experience / exposure to project management principles and practice will be highly valuable.