Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to supercharge economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Husk Values

Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job; Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality and Reliability; Respect for environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.

Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in Nigeria and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, and frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Position Name: Manager, HSSE

Division / Function: QHSSE

Location of the Job: Abuja, Nigeria

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Role Summary

Husk is seeking a Manager, HSSE (Health & Safety and Environmental & Social) who will be responsible for monitoring, enforcing, directing, and developing HSSE programs to include compliance with corporate, regulatory, and government standards, acquire and maintain required permits, review of safety policies and rules, hazard prevention, site assessments and maintenance of HSSE records.

As a key member of the company’s leadership team based at Abuja, Nigeria, this person will actively participate at the highest level to ensure an environment conducive to a world-class HSSE culture.  

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for formulation of Health & Safety and Environmental & Social strategies at Husk India/ Nigeria. 
• Responsible for all environmental & safety permit application renewals for existing assets as well as new permit applications for new projects. 
• Overall responsibility for advising the top management on all applicable HHSE legislation and monitoring compliance. 
• Overall responsibility for gaining and maintaining approvals to ISO 14001 & 45001 and any additional applicable accreditations. 
• Develop and Implement policies, procedures, risk management programs, controls, and measures. Be the owner of Root Cause Analysis, Incident Reports, and Summary statistics, and follow through on the closure of action items identified in incident reports. 
• Supervise management of all hazardous waste maintain records of same and ensure compliance to all HSSE programs. 
• Preparation, implementation, and application of the overall HHSE program for Husk India/ Nigeria. 
• Ensure that all audits of critical activities and internal processes are managed so as to minimize risks. 
• Ensure roll out and proper implementation of behavioral Safety Programs and other relevant safety initiatives. 
• Manage the compilation and ongoing HHSE procedures and plans specific to the needs of the organization and review, monitor, analyses, and report HHSE statistics, objectives, and targets for business improvement. 
• Motivate, coach, and encourage all personnel on HHSE matters. 
• Drive HHSE training within the Company. 
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to Health & Safety and Environment & Social issues. 
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, and lead by example to ensure company goals are achieved and exceeded. 
• Will be results-oriented, use a systematic process to develop plans and achieve specific outcomes, drive a team to the achievement of objectives, focus on results rather than activities. 
• Be detail-oriented, able to visualize and communicate the critical steps involved in successfully completing a project; strive for the highest level of service quality possible. 
• Be deliberate, analytical and thoughtful but decisive, able to cut through extraneous issues and draw conclusions and recommend actions based on factual assessment. 
• Manage environmental program including all applicable regulations and corporate requirements as a minimum. 
• Maintaining accurate and timely processing of environmental permits, licenses, and documents by managing relationships with State government agencies along with supporting consultants and vendors. 
• Managing and maintaining environmental compliance at both the Centre and State levels by ensuring that the required permits are acquired and that the permit conditions (e.g. sampling, recordkeeping) are met. 
• Manage and be responsible for the activities of the Emergency Response Team and Incident Command System. 
• Manage the evaluation of all materials prior to storage or transfer for safety, health, environmental and permit compliance issues. 

Required Skills and Attributes

• 8+ years of HHSE experience preferably in a renewable energy sector and with a strong environmental background.  3-5 years of supervisory experience.  
• A thorough and practical knowledge of central, State, and Local environmental laws and regulations. 
• Graduate in Engineering / Environmental Science preferred. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills to relate to all levels of the organization. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Software and Google Suite.
• Excellent Excel and data analysis experience

Location:

• This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria with 60% travel across Husk plants / potential plants. .

Salary

Negotiable based on experience. 

Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This description indicates the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as the essential functions a person must be able to perform to do this job. It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Husk Power Energy Systems and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration of race, colour, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law.