Job description / Role
Wood in UAE is looking to hire an experienced HSE Manager to join the team on a major oil and gas project based in Dubai, UAE.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Job Objective
Provides leadership and direction for the HSE department to hire and train qualified expertise into the department, to engage personnel on projects and improve department work processes and procedures. The position will ensure compliance with applicable HSE Management System, Customer Safety Policies, and governmental regulations by supervising the development of procedures and safety plans and ensuring proper execution
Key Responsibilities and duties
- Embraces Wood strategic purpose, goals, and objectives and translates these into practical concepts relevant to HSE management
- Leads a team consisting of professional staff
- Teaches problem solving, creative thinking and project planning skills to less experienced staff
- Provides constructive feedback & coaching
- Create and maintain a network of subject matter experts
- Input to annual department goals and objectives
- Staffing and development of HSE talent for department and projects
- Performance reviews and salary administration
- Conducting periodic meetings with department staff, to provide top-down information flow about the company
- Receives intermittent supervision
- Support Business Development and Proposals department
- Ensure HSE Management Systems are monitored and in compliance
- Ensures compliance with audit protocols
- Promote HSE best practices in the office and on projects
- Development of HSE project and department safe work plans
- Support HSE presentation needs to clients (internal and external)
- Ensure HSE related training is applicable to office and project needs
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualifications:
- Degree qualified in relevant discipline
- ISO 9001:2008 Lead Auditor Qualified
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Minimum 15 years HSE experience
- Knowledge of HSE standards and legal requirements
- Saudi Aramco standards familiarity is a must
- Experience of working in and managing a Quality and HSE Management system environment
- Supervisory or direct management experience of more junior staff members is required.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Confident self-starter who can work independently
- Knowledge of internal and external audits and third party certification audits practices
Personal attributes:
- Must demonstrate a working knowledge of management techniques , department procedures and requirements
- Displays emotional maturity. Understands and controls one's emotions with empathy for others and uses these skills to lead others
- Communicates effectively. Listens to understand and is able to articulate ideas and complex concepts clearly and convincingly to a wide range of audiences
- Expresses ideas clearly and concisely. Seeks to understand others perspectives. Keeps accurate and organized records
- Addresses substantive conflicts and facilitates timely resolution
- Builds relationships. Methodically builds collaborative relationships with customers, peers, global knowledge networks, subordinates, and superiors to achieve business objectives
- Engages others. Through active involvement, fosters teamwork, aligns differences and leverages individual's talents to achieve objectives
- Mentors people. Consistently teaches, coaches, and mentors to help assure individual and team success as well as develop the next generation
- Builds trust. Practices own chosen leadership truisms that enable others to have a firm reliance on their character and competence on their character and competence under stress
- Foster development of a common vision and collaboration among team members and teams effectively across geographical and cultural boundaries
- Promotes open expression of ideas. Encourages and empowers others to achieve
- Maintains a healthy balance between operational involvement and leadership.
- Delegates effectively
About the Company
Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.