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Step into a Safety Officer role in Secunda and make your mark across Mpumalanga. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.
About the Opportunity
This Safety Officer role sits within the engineering jobs function in Secunda. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Mpumalanga.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Secunda team.
Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the engineering jobs group in Secunda.
Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Safety Officer is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Mpumalanga is consistently high and consistently fair.
Why This Role
Few roles let you see the impact of your work as quickly as this one. Every shift, project and decision in Secunda contributes to real outcomes for clients and colleagues across the engineering jobs space in Mpumalanga.
Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Secunda teams.
The company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Secunda keep progressing.
Benefits are clear and consistent. Beyond the package on offer, the role includes the supports you would expect from an established South African employer in Mpumalanga.
A Typical Day
Mornings often begin on site, walking through plant or project areas with the team and picking up where yesterday’s work ended. You move between technical reviews, contractor discussions and hands-on troubleshooting, balancing safety, cost and quality at every decision point. The afternoon might involve drawings, reports or a planning session for an upcoming shutdown. By the time you knock off, you have kept production running, advanced the project plan and helped the team go home safely.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Secunda.
Notably, the Secunda office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
On top of that, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Mpumalanga operations throw up the unexpected.
Based in Secunda
Secunda continues to grow as an employment hub in Mpumalanga, with along the N4 Maputo Development Corridor. This role gives you a foothold in one of its busier business communities, with access to the local services, suppliers and partners that keep the work moving.
Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Secunda.
If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Secunda, Mpumalanga.
Many candidates already living within reach of Secunda cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Mpumalanga economy.
Diversity and Inclusion
Beyond that, the organisation is committed to transformation and equal opportunity. Hiring is on merit, and applications are actively encouraged from women, youth, people with disabilities and other historically disadvantaged groups in line with the Employment Equity plan and B-BBEE objectives.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Mpumalanga.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Secunda.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Prepare technical drawings, BOMs and specifications for production
- Prepare technical reports and project documentation for sign-off
- Mentor apprentices, learners and junior engineers on site
- Lead root-cause analyses on production losses and quality defects
- Maintain calibration, asset and plant maintenance records
- Conduct site inspections and progress meetings with contractors
Minimum Requirements
- Commitment to safe, ethical and sustainable engineering practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical reporting
- Familiarity with lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Working knowledge of CAD packages (AutoCAD, SolidWorks or similar)
- Computer literacy in MS Office and relevant engineering software
- Sound knowledge of the OHS Act and applicable SANS standards
Crucially, if most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.