Junior HSE Engineer

Job description / Role

To implement on all aspects of Atkins' health, safety and environmental (HSE) management systems and Operational Health & safety Procedures. To ensure contractors and subcontractors comply with their legal and contractual HSE requirements by monitoring, inspecting, auditing and reporting on their performance.

Responsibilities
- Junior Health, Safety and Environmental Engineer
- Adhere to and implement Atkins internal HSE management system requirements and operational health, and safety procedures.
- Adhere to project HSE requirements and ensure the Atkins team are aware of them.
- Conduct HSE audits/site inspections on subcontractors as directed by the HSE Engineer.
- Monitor, assess and report on contractor and sub-contractors legal and contractual HSE compliance.
- Immediately bring to the attention of the Atkins HSE Engineer critical and outstanding safety issues for their further action.
- Conduct and co-ordinate regular safety training for Atkins' project staff.
- Carry out daily site HSE tours with contractor HSE staff and highlight findings.
- Issue non-conformances and action plans to subcontractors
- Follow up with the contractor on outstanding HSE issues, including reports, observation logs and SENs ensuring prompt closure with adequate evidence of compliance.
- Review and comment of the contractors HSE plans. Advise the contractor to update the site safety plan when necessary.
- Review and comment on contractor's risk assessments and work method statements
- Develop and update Atkins' HSE documents e.g. HSE Plan, HSE specific site risk assessment, office risk assessment, office fire risk assessment, etc where required..
- Enter accident information into Atkins' RIVO system in a timely manner.
- Attend safety meetings where required with the contractor and other parties as necessary. Issue MOM on time (within 48 hours). Report any outstanding or critical safety issues or lack of action by the contractor to the Lead HSE Engineer for raising in the weekly progress meetings.
- Prepare and maintain Atkins' HSE registers, e.g. training, induction, SEN, inspection reports, incidents, and others as required.
- Report any accident on site immediately to the HSE Engineer..
- Ensure that major issues are escalated to the HSE Engineer immediately.
- Liaise with the employer, contractors and the site supervision team and report status of safety issues.
- Prepare regular weekly, monthly and other reports as required on safety matters for issue to the employer, HSE Engineer and
- Coordinate safety-related activities for Atkins' team and mentor regularly.
- Carry out inductions for Atkins' site staff

Requirements

Client Interface
- Provide necessary HSE reports/recommendation as required by the client for any project specific issues.
- Attend meetings with the client.

Contractor Interface
- Inspect the site on a regular basis with the contractors HSE team and other responsible members of the construction team to identify hazards but ensure any risks are adequately controlled prior to leaving area.
- Report on inspection findings via formal correspondence regularly
- Attend weekly HSE meetings with the contractor

Functional Duties
- Monitor performance of the contractor/sub-contractor and identify, raise any health, safety or environmental concerns with the HSE Engineer.
- Review health, safety and environmental procedures and effectively implement HSE plans across the project.
- Identify any particular site safety issues and bring to the notice of the contractor

Experience/requirements
- 8 to 10 Years experience in Health & Safety (preferably in UAE & in Building construction projects)
- NEBOSH IGC
- OSHAD - Abu Dhabi OSHMS Practitioner course certification
- Lead auditor course ( ISO45001/OHSAS 18001/ISO14001)
- Consultancy experience is must ( At least one or two years)

SNC Lavalin's Atkins business is one of the largest multidisciplinary, multi sector engineering design consultancies in the world and is part of the SNC Lavalin Group.

As one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies with a leading track record in the defence sector, Atkins are ideally placed to respond to this market. We have a broad establishment and proud, 50 year history throughout the Middle East region.

We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes.

Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Sharjah.

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).