I have an exciting opportunity for a Safety, Quality & Environment Manager based in Dubai – UAE for a client. Incumbent will manage and continuously improve the Safety, Quality, and Environment performance of his/her area of responsibility in line with targets.

They will work with the management to develop and maintain safety awareness and manage competencies, resources, processes, procedures, and guidelines affecting safety. Incumbent enables my client to build quality into their processes and develop a proactive quality culture and mindset through increased competencies, collaboration, communication, and best business practices sharing. Responsible for identifying local applicable environmental regulations, business development opportunities, and risks while interacting with business lines and functions, ensuring environmental compliance and conformance to business strategies and ISO 14001 Management System.

Safety policy and objectives

·Implement, maintain, and improve my client safety management system (operating model) including worker, user, and third-party safety;

·Set objectives, roles, and responsibilities for safety;

·Provide professional support, drive management commitment, and active worker participation;

·Establish, manage, and develop a unit safety committee and other safety forums;

·Participate in and contribute to global safety team meetings;

·Compile, maintain, and improve safety documentation and monitor usage;

·Initiate and implement programs and activities to improve safety;

·Support the development, review, and exercise of crisis and emergency response plans.

Safety risk management

·Ensure the use of and continually improve safety risk management processes, tools, and practices;

·Support or lead safety-related change management projects and initiatives.

Safety assurance

·Produce safety data, ensure accuracy, and develop indicators;

·Monitor legal and business environment development in safety, identify and initiate actions;

·Perform and manage safety audits to verify compliance, identify uncontrolled risks and deviations;

·Assist line management in safety audits/visits and continually improve the auditing process;

·Set safety targets, goals, and plans with unit leadership and global function;

·Develop annual safety budget in line with global budgeting guidelines;

·Manage incident investigations and continually improve the process.

Quality management

·Promotes, Unit/function management, recognition, and conformance to customer and my client requirements;

·Collaborates with client Way process owners / operating model owners and change managers to ensure the continual improvement and implementation of client Way;

·Assures that functional and operational leaders and teams globally and locally analyze, develop, and execute continuous quality improvements based on performance data and proactively gather and analyze other relevant data to identify continuous improvement opportunities;

·Drives the annual quality budget planning and other quality-related target setting in his/her organization in line with global targets.

Continual improvement

·Drives progress and monitors the effectiveness of continuous improvement projects, and corrective and preventative actions which are being logged within the organization and provide direction and support where needed;

·Drives continuous reduction of Cost of Poor Quality;

·Contributes to the development of the Management System (QEHS), monitors its performance, and combines its management with other management systems, such as environment and safety;

·Responsible for planning, execution, and follow-up of audits as a tool for assuring process compliance and identifying areas for process performance and improvement;

·Leads and supports any required corrective actions required due to non-conformance;

·Ensures that, in their area of responsibility, the management practices are in place as defined in the Continual improvement policy e.g., operations reviews, QIT meetings, development portfolio reviews, etc.

Environmental management

·Incumbent is responsible for implementing local and global environmental strategies and setting long-term unit-level environmental KPIs in line with business strategies and unit management;

·Lead and coordinate the unit’s improvement activities and development programs related to environmental, climate, or sustainability matters;

·Create environmental action plans in the unit with objectives and KPIs, evidence of the performance, and continuous improvement relevant to environmental requirements;

·Collaborate with sourcing, business lines, facility management, and other relevant functions to meet the unit’s long- and short-term environmental goals;

·Ensure environmental legal compliance in the unit together with local sourcing relevant to my client solutions and operations.

Professional requirements:

·Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience;

·Strong communication skills in English; proficiency in additional languages is a plus;

·Excellent leadership and interpersonal abilities;

·Certifications: ISO 9001, 45001, & 14001 Lead Auditor;

·NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety;

·IOSH Managing Safely or IOSH Leading Safely certification.

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