Analyst - Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) at IHS Towers
IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Analyst - Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description
- Designing and organizing HSE events to promote behavior-based safety and a positive culture in the region. This is within IHS and IHS contractors.
- Prepare and execute on-site monitoring programs in the region.
- Periodically engage regulatory/ governmental agencies (State Ministry of Environment, State Safety Commission, NESREA, NOSDRA, etc.) to ensure continual compliance.
- Implement strategies and controls to reduce health, safety, and environmental (HSE) risks across sites in the region
- Participate in HSE-related conferences, seminars, public hearings, etc.
- Enhance HSE awareness by sending out monthly HSE tips to regional staff and contributing articles to Internal Communications.
- Promote the Perfect HSE Day concept to drive the belief that zero incidents is possible.
- Ensure the region’s HSE systems and processes comply with relevant applicable laws and requirements.
- Advise and support the company’s regional management and staff on results from audits/ inspections, and risk assessment related to their work areas to ensure a safe working environment.
- Assist in implementing HSE-specific targets for regional operations in line with the company’s annual HSE plan.
- Document, implement, and supervise SSOW (RA, PTW, etc.) for potential high-risk operations in the region.
- Participate in, and provide support for, environment-critical activities, e.g., Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), and legal compliance monitoring (e.g., noise monitoring, air quality, etc.) in the region. Advise regional management as appropriate.
- Provide advice and support to regional management during incident investigations to establish root causes, cascade lateral learning, and make recommendations to minimize re-occurrences.
- Maintaining a database for tracking action plans arising from incident investigations, HSE meetings, audits, clients’ and/ or customers’ inspections, and/ or complaints in the region. etc., until close out.
- Advise regional Operations team, SMCs, and SBCs on legislative and regulatory requirements and changes to prevent punitive measures from regulators.
- Produce weekly performance reports on the regional HSE activities to support the overall HSE objectives and monthly regional performance reports.
- Ensure all incidents in the region are reported on the IHS Incident reporting platform (SysAid).
- Coordinate the distribution and recording of regular PPE and COVID-19 kits in the region and produce weekly stock updates.
- Conduct HSE orientation for new employees in the region.
- Implement Corporate Fleet Safety Program policies and procedures in the region.
- Advise regional management on developments in environmental issues to ensure consistent adherence to local and international legislations, regulations, and standards.
- Monitor HSE performance for contractors in the region and advise on ways of improving contractor performance.
- Perform any other duties and tasks as assigned by Senior Manager, HSE.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Sciences and/ or any other relevant discipline.
- Membership of relevant professional bodies (ISPON, NES, IOSH, IIRSM, etc.) will be an added advantage.
- Valid NEBOSH International General Certificate (IGC) in Occupational Health & Safety. NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate (NEC) will be an added advantage.
- Demonstrable knowledge in monitoring, policymaking, and planning.
- Proficient in MS Office Applications and other Microsoft tools.
- +2 years’ relevant work experience.
- ISO HSE-MS certifications, e.g., ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 will be an added advantage
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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