Health, Safety and Environment Manager

Job description / Role

Our client, a leading semi-government entity is seeking to hire an Arabic-speaking Health and Safety Manager.

The HSE Manager will be in charge of the overall management and technical leadership of the Health Safety and Environmental Management System of their high-scale plant. The position reports to the Plant Manager and must be comfortable being located at the facility.

Job Responsibilities
- Maintain compliance with safety, health and environmental guidelines for operational activities.
- Responsible for managing all elements of the HSE function, including annual operating plan, HSE management systems deployment, audits, best practices exchange, corrective action closures, internal/external reporting, etc.
- Develop, issue and implement site specific safety, health, and security policies and procedures.
- Ensure HSE training is successfully delivered to employees required to undergo it.
- Drive increased awareness of HSE processes and practices to management, operations and administration departments.
- Work to improve HSE knowledge and understanding of business partners through various measures, including working in cross-functional teams.
- Provide specialist consulting in all aspects of HSE Risk Assessments.
- Maintain knowledge of norms and standards, follow modifications and propose relevant updates of plant procedures.
- Lead internal HSE assessments and manage corrective action plans to drive timely closure of open action items.

Requirements

- Bachelor's of Engineering or Health, Safety, Environmental Services degree from a recognized university
- 4 to 5 years PQE managing oil & gas or process plant
- Successful experience in leading an HSE team
- Strong communication skills and fluent English and Arabic
- Deep sense of urgency, priority management and multi-tasking of projects and adhoc tasks
- IT Savvy

About the Company

Mark Williams is a Dubai recruitment company with a wealth of Search & Selection experience. Mark Williams International is a subsidiary of the Williams Group UK and in December 2009 set up the Middle East business.

Mark Williams is a fully licensed recruitment firm currently focused on fulfilling clients needs in; Emiratisation, Financial Services and Information Technology related position within the United Arab Emirates. The initial focus was looking at Emiratisation into the Financial Services sector across all seven Emirates. With an increased demand for over the subsequent years for Emiratisation we have broadened our scope to place UAE Nationals into Industry & Government with dedicated teams for Emiratisation into Financial Services and Industry. Given our focus is primarily on the local market it gives us a depth of understanding & knowledge that enables us deliver our business partners an unrivaled service in terms of; speed and most importantly, quality.

Founding the Middle East business in adverse market conditions has enabled us to capture market-share and establish ourselves as a house hold name within our specialisms. Within two years we had outgrown our initial office and moved to the prestigious Business Central Towers in Media City. Mark Williams, at the end of 2014 has completed its third upscaling of operations to Bay Square, Business Bay. This was a strategic move to enable continued business growth by servicing clients and candidates with improved infrastructure, access and parking. Mark Williams provides candidates and clients private meeting rooms, testing facilities and board room access to facilitate screening and interviews. With our current capacity and growth ambitions Mark Williams is now one of the fastest growing Recruitment agencies in the region.