AngloGold Ashanti is seeking a VP, Health & Safety for its Africa Business Unit (ABU), covering operations in Ghana, Guinea, Egypt and Tanzania. The role leads and implements the Group's health and safety strategy across the business unit, translating company-wide policies into practical plans that build a proactive safety culture across operations and capital projects, with a focus on ISO 45001 compliance and the prevention of fatalities, serious injuries and occupational illness. The position can be based in Johannesburg (South Africa), Accra (Ghana), Conakry (Guinea) or Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).
Responsibilities
- Lead the business unit's occupational health and safety (OHS) function and set BU initiatives aligned with the Group strategy, prioritising critical and fatal risk management
- Oversee OHS standards and regulatory compliance, run BU-wide audits and critical control verification, and standardise incident investigations
- Provide health and safety oversight for capital projects and lead major incident investigations
- Guide digital OHS systems and hazard reporting tools, ensuring data quality and benchmarking
- Represent the company at safety forums, industry bodies and with regulators, and track legislative changes
- Coach and develop regional safety teams and mentor senior leaders on visible safety leadership and behaviour-based safety programmes
- Set OHS KPIs, track critical controls and report safety trends to the BU Executive Committee and Group Board
- Run occupational health, industrial hygiene, mental health and endemic disease programmes, and implement and audit Fatigue Risk Management Systems
- Manage the BU OHS budget and resources, and act as the principal BU safety lead during crises and emergency response
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in occupational safety, health, medicine, engineering or a related field; advanced certifications in occupational health, safety management or ISO standards are highly desirable
- At least 10 years of progressive health and safety leadership in mining or similar high-risk industries, including at least 5 years in senior management
- Experience building ISO 45001 safety management systems and applying ISO 31000 risk management methods
- Experience in catastrophic risk prevention and in investigating serious incidents and fatalities
- Expertise in occupational health and hygiene, health crisis management, fatigue and wellness programmes, and health surveillance systems
- Strong organisational, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence across a matrixed organisation
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 50% of the time
- Occupational health and safety leadership
- Mining safety management
- ISO 45001
- ISO 31000 risk management
- Critical risk management
- Safety audits and investigations
- Leadership and communication
- International travel readiness
