HSE Manager

Rowad Modern Engineering; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rowad Modern Engineering seeks an HSE Project Manager to lead the health, safety, and environmental management across UAE construction projects. You will drive HSE strategies, manage site teams, and ensure client, regulatory, and international best-practice compliance.

You will conduct risk assessments, audits, incident investigations, and weekly safety reporting, while promoting a strong safety culture on all active sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant HSE experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in the UAE construction market is mandatory.
• Experience in hospitality and tourism construction projects is preferred.
• OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) certification is mandatory.
• NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) certification is an advantage.
• IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) certification is preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensure that HSE policy is followed and applied on project sites to minimize hazards and risks.
• Increase the HSE team's awareness of health, environment, and equipment safety on site.
• Monitor site activities via method statements to identify hazards and prevent incidents.
• Manage firefighting process plan and communicate emergency exits, assembly points, and extinguishers.
• Inform electricity team of hazards and precautions to avoid incidents.
• Attend daily progress meetings to coordinate safety precautions for each activity.
• Issue permits-to-work to authorize high-risk tasks according to safety procedures.
• Attend weekly progress meetings to review HSE activity progress and plan upcoming work.
• Liaise with HSE team to address concerns and resolve on-site issues.
• Prepare weekly and monthly statistics reports for HSE management.
• Prepare self-assessment reports to measure site safety performance.

Skills

Leadership

Risk assessments

Audits

Incident investigations

HSE management

Permits-to-work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

The HSE Project Manager will be responsible for leading the health, safety, and environmental management system across construction project in the UAE, ensuring full compliance with project requirements, Client standards, UAE regulations, and international HSE best practices. The role involves developing and implementing HSE strategies, leading site HSE teams, conducting risk assessments, audits, and incident investigations, ensuring compliance with client and regulatory requirements, promoting a strong safety culture, and collaborating with project teams to achieve safe, efficient, and incident-free project execution.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure that HSE policy is followed and applied on project sites to minimize hazards and risks.
• Increase the HSE team's awareness of the importance of their health, the environment, and the equipment used on site.
• Monitor all activities on site through a method statement to list all activities, how they will be done, and proactively determine the hazards to be eliminated before happening.
• Manage the firefighting process plan and communicate information about the emergency exits, assembly points, and fire extinguishers to ensure that they are well known to everyone.
• Inform the electricity team of all the hazards that they may be exposed to and communicate the precautions to be taken in order to avoid them.
• Attend the daily progress meeting to coordinate, schedule, and set the precautions to be taken for each activity during the day.
• Issue permits-to-work to authorized people to carry out specific, high-risk work against previously agreed safety procedures.
• Attend the weekly progress meeting to identify the development of each HSE activity and to advise on the activities to be conducted in the upcoming week.
• Liaise with the HSE team to identify and determine their concerns and the issues that they may be facing on site to tackle and resolve them.
• Prepare the weekly and monthly statistics report, including all details such as the number of first aid incidents, training attendees, employees onsite, etc., to be sent to the HSE department management.
• Prepare the self-assessment report to measure the performance of all bands on site, e.g. housekeeping, personal protective kits, electrical cables, tools, etc., to be sent to the HSE department management.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant HSE experience, including at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in the UAE construction market is mandatory.
• Experience in hospitality and tourism construction projects is preferred.
• OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) certification is mandatory.
• NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) certification is an advantage.
• IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) certification is preferred

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