SAFETY HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT CHIEF (FMCG)
- Full-time
Company Description
About Oasis Africa Consulting:
We are a leading Human Capital management organization, delivering value to our Clients in Nigeria and across Africa. We offer services in areas such as; Recruitment & Assessment (Talent Sourcing), Staff Outsourcing (Talent Outsourcing), Learning & Development (Training) and Advisory.
Our consultants possess in-depth experience and knowledge in services that we offer, thereby translating to our thorough approach in service delivery.
About the client:
Our Client is a beverage company with strong growth plans, backed by international investors, it currently seeks to recruit an SHE MANAGER, who is ambitious to develop him/herself to an outstanding leader within the Group.
Job Description
Mission of the position:
Promotion and expansion of our company’s products in line with safety health and environmental activities and generate revenues in a way that leads to sustainable growth by avoiding accidents, fire outbreaks, environmental and health issues and promoting safety awareness among employees.
Internal relations:
- Executive Management- Inform, Advice, Support and coordinate safety activities
- Senior Management- Advice, Inform, Support and coordinate safety activities
- Other Staff- SHE Management across all functional areas, training, Advisory, support and monitoring.
- Contractors- Conduct trainings, inductions, analyse their job and authorise permit
External relations:
- OGEPA- Environmental compliance, monitoring and audit
- MoE - Ensure statutory compliance, permits, audit reporting
- MAN- Attend meetings, relay information and seek support
- Fire Service- Renewal of Fire certificate, Fire Audit, inspection
- DPR- Renewal of Petroleum storage permit
- Rambigas- Environmental Audits, Env. Permits, consultancy, etc
Main Duties:
· Effective management of SHE across the business and working closely with the client’s SHE team.
· Champion and manage the entire factory fire safety and emergency response and also liaise with federal fire service for renewal of fire certificate as when due.
· Conduct fire quarterly fire risk assessment with fire team and fire maintenance contractors and recommend corrective measures.
· Monitor and ensure all parameters are in place with respect to safety management and ensure proper documentation for audit.
·Promoting a positive and proactive safety culture across projects and especially with respect to site work.
· Providing Health & Safety advice, guidance and coaching to project team to embed natural safety culture.
· Management Systems Installation and Auditing: Provide technical support to client organizations in the development and implementation of their SHEMS, SMS and EMS, aligned to international Standard/specifications.
· Champion site inspections and audits both internally and externally.
Interface with clients, contractors and other stakeholders, ensuring a proactive and
· Effective approach to project QSE and supporting delivery (e.g KPIs, briefings, induction).
Promoting policies, processes, legislation, regulations and standards and any changes best practice
identified.
·Provide safety leadership to all field resources, development and execution of safety strategy.
·Primary response to all construction and transport safety issues including communications with regulatory officials and customer SHE representatives.
·Deal with non-conformities and co-ordinate the analysis of their causes with the relevant area and carry out corrective, preventive and improvement actions.
· Ensure compliance with current legislation of the land as it relates to Environmental and waste management.
·Build cordial relationship with local authorities such as OGEPA, NAFDAC, MAN: authorizations, licenses, statistics, etc.
· Ensuring that employee involvement and empowerment is critical to fostering continual improvement, safety, waste elimination and waste reduction in production process.
Qualifications
Education: B.Tech Production Technology, Msc Environmental Management
Experience: 10 years
Additional Information
Organizational skills:
- Proficient and self-assured
- Strong leadership quality
- Project planning and execution management
- A team player and fun to work with
- Good time management skill
- Teachable and ability to learn new things daily
- Project planning and execution Management Strong levels of literacy and numeracy
- Able to monitor Air and water quality
- Extensive knowledge of Fire prevention, protection and management
- Environmental training and retraining
- Specialised knowledge of chemical safety and waste Management
- Has proactive hazard analysis and control.
- Incident investigation and reporting
- Good understanding of hazard and risk