Head - Health, Safety & Environment (Dangote Cement Transport) at Dangote

Job Summary

• The Head, Health, Safety & Environment is responsible and accountable for effective management of all health and safety risks associated with all activities in Dangote Cement Transport.
• He/ She is to professionally utilize appropriate resources, tools, and techniques to prevent incidents, Road Traffic Crashes, at DCT locations/office, investigate and fellow-up on all incidents. and ensure continuous improvement in health, safety & environment performance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure full implementation of both Dangote Group HSSE and the location OH&S policies.
• Work closely with the entire DCT management, Fleet Officers, Fleet Managers, and all employees to always ensure safety of employees and safe operation of Dangote trucks.
• Regularly liaise with appropriate government agencies e. g The Police and the Federal Road safety Corps ensure collaboration and harmonious working relationship.
• Develop a system to manage and proactively respond to all safety concerns identified or raised by an appropriate person in the Transport organization.
• Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring the effectiveness of HE Management System with a view to ensuring all activities in transport are performed in accordance with the best practices, in compliance with appropriate laws, procedures, standards, rules, regulations and legislations.
• Coordinate the development of risk assessment & develop risk register for all activities in DCT including route risk assessments.
• Coordinate the implementation of Group Transport annual HSE plans and objectives, VFSL demonstration activities.
• Promote compliance with the 15 Golden Rules and promote safety culture across board.
• In collaboration with other members of HSSE team, develop, maintain, update, and review the risk register regularly, and immediately after an investigation report has been concluded.
• Collaborate with all Transport stakeholders to ensure they participate in the HSSE Risk Management process and activities relating to their specific operations.

Key result Area & Key Performance Indictors:

• Development and implementation of Risk Register
• Provision of direct accident prevention support to DCT fleets
• Number of collaborative meetings and fleet safety inspection reports completed.

Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• Graduate in any discipline, preferably in Sciences or Engineering
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant working experience as HSSE professional
• Professional certificate or diploma in fire, safety, health, or environmental management from a recognized institution is an added advantage e.g., NEBOSH, British Safety Council IDipOSH.
• Highly skilled incident management (incident reporting, investigation, analysis and follow up on the implementation of corrective actions).
• High experience in the use of tripod beta or any other or root cause analysis tools and techniques will be an added advantage.
• Experienced in change management.

Skills and Behaviors:

• Highly skilled in incident classification, investigation, and analysis.
• Highly skilled in influencing organizational culture change.
• Knowledge of fleet safety management.
• Knowledge of health and environmental management.
• Strong team player and self-motivated individual.
• Strong influencing skill and ability to communicate across all levels in the organization.
• Ability to positively influence staff and management.
• Highly skilled in training, mentoring and development.
• Ability to speak Hausa fluently is an added advantage.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid Time Off.
• Training & Development.
• Performance Bonus.