Ongoing Recruitment at BIA Zambia – November 2017
- Position: Site HSE Manager
- Company: BIA Zambia
- Location: Kalumbila, Zambia
- Job type: Full-Time
- Job Category: Management Jobs in Zambia
With subsidiaries in more than 21 African countries, BIA’s operations are in the Sales and After-sales services of equipment for mines, quarries, public works, recycling, handling and power generation in West and Central Africa. BIA is able to offer a wide range of equipment and accessories from well-known manufacturers such as Komatsu, Sandvik, Bomag, Cummins and Yale.
BIA Zambia is currently looking for a Site HSE Manager for its operations to be based in Kalumbila.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Risk assessment
- Update the risk assessment and hazards identification twice a year, for each semester.
- Ensure that control measures are smarts, sufficient and necessary
- Ensure the quality of all site-specific risk assessments activities and tasks.
- Ensure that out comings of risk assessments are understood and dually communicated to the site management team.
Legal compliance
- Identify all applicable legal requirements as well as other HSE regulation texts
- Check periodically the legal compliance as well as other applicable regulations
- Implement and maintain all necessary tools and actions for legal conformity and compliance.
Training
- Elaborate a comprehensive training matrix including liaising with the categories and periodicity.
- Do the HSE trainings and sensitizations
- Induction for all newcomers on site
- Ensure that the training program is implemented followed up on a monthly basis
HSE system
- Ensure the JHA (Job hazards analyses) are dually done for all special tasks, and control measures implemented before the job realization.
- Liaise with the team during the elaboration of SOP for all hazardous activities.
- Ensure that SOPs are periodically revised
- Train everyone on the SOPs
- Ensure the design of identification and synthesis sheets for tools/equipment and chemicals, and ensure their implementation and availability for all.
- Ensure the reporting of accidents/incidents at work, conduct investigations, analyze causes and participate in the definition of corrective and preventive actions and evaluate their effectiveness
- Ensure the respect of the client exigencies and procedures
- Ensure that weekly inspections are done and action plans implemented
- Liaise with the client HSE and communicate with the management on their evolution
- Implement the safety management plan and/or the workshop manual on the mining/workshop site and report the progress to the Regional HSE Manager.
- Develop and implement the annual HSE plan
Reporting
- Make a regular follow up of the site performances
- Analyze KPIs and come up with action plans
- Send the weekly report to the HSE Regional manager
Emergency plan
- Write or adapt an emergency plan for the site
- Liaise with the client to ensure periodic emergency drills, report and implement improvements
- Ensure that staff are trained in emergency preparedness
General
- Ensure back up of HSE supervisor if necessary
- Manage documentation accordingly to the BIA procedure
- Stop all activities if safety of the staff is not guaranteed
- Be the interface between the Regional HSE Manager and the site
EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 5 years in the mining industry
- Project management experience
- 3 years of management experience on site
- Knowledge of the OSHAS 18001 Standards
- Fluent in the English language
- Proficient in MS Office
- Safety experience in inspections of lifting equipment
- Working at height safety experience
- Good knowledge on risk assessment methodology
- Knowledge in emergency preparedness
COMPETENCIES
- Communication skills
- Developing & coaching others
- Initiative & pro-activity
- Relationship building
- Technical & professional expertise