Quality, Environment Health And Safety Manager -Kenya

--Powermax General Electrical Merchants Ltd--

Job Description

Background Information

Career Options Africa Group is a HR Consultancy firm specializing in Recruitment, HR outsourcing and Immigration support in Africa with offices in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Nigeria, South Africa, and South Sudan. 

Our client, a power infrastructure company, is looking for a quality, environmental health and safety manager in Kenya to join their team 

The Job

As the Quality, Environmental Health and Safety Manager, you will provide leadership in the development and implementation of management systems necessary to ensure compliance with quality, environment, health and safety requirements affecting the plant and to evaluate and ensure their effectiveness over time. You will also provide leadership of corporate-wide projects and initiatives intended to advance and support the quality, environment, health and safety policy and priorities so as to ensure compliance to statutory requirements and international standards. 

Job Industry

Engineering And Technical

Job Salary Currency

Job Salary Fixed

No

Key Deliverables

1. Policies, Procedures and Standards development  

  • Assist in implementation and manage Quality, Environmental & Social, Health & Safety Systems based on ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001  
  • Quality control of all the plant’s O&M’s processes including ensuring that quality assurance procedures are adhered to, ensuring that calibrations of equipment and tools is carried out, ensuring that plant testing and inspections are done according to plan and ensuring that operation and maintenance activities are carried out as instructed by the manufacturer’s manual & standard operating procedures (SOPs)  

2. Quality Assurance Management  

  • Ensuring that the plants project’s permits and licenses are up to date and that license conditions are adhered to, so as to ensure no non-conformances in environmental procedures  
  • Plan for statutory, regulatory and internal audits and inspections, maintain a compilation of all recommendations and/or corrective actions and then initiate and coordinate corrective actions for all non-compliances/non-conformances  
  • Planning & Co-ordinating environmental monitoring in line with local and contractual requirements  
  • Identifying and/or review of proposed Continuous Improvement Projects (CIP). This involves reviewing the recommendations of energy audits, risk survey audits, health & safety audits and fire safety audits.  
  • Management of stakeholders, receiving and addressing grievances and social investments.  
  • Leading energy audits, risk survey audits, health & safety audits, fire safety audits and monitoring and evaluation audits from project lenders and/or their appointed consultants.   
  • Handling operational risk management issues.  
  • Hosting of audits, monitoring and evaluation missions by stakeholders i.e., lenders/consultants, regulators, authorities, community (NEMA, EPRA)  
  • Establish, implement and manage business aspects of total quality management techniques inclusive of Quality assurance of fuel and lubricating oils, Sampling and analysis of fuel and lubricating oils,   
  • Operational reporting and Quality assurance of fuel and lubricating oils, Sampling and analysis of fuel and lubricating oils  

3. Health, Safety & Environment Management and awareness  

  • Develop and maintain a strong safety culture at the plant  
  • Develop health and safety procedures, response plans (ERRP), contingency plans and training staff on them  
  • Develop and maintain an efficient security system in the plant capable of handling all eventualities including managing the security company.  
  • Planning HSE trainings for the O&M personnel  
  • Advising the management on relevant continuous improvement plans on environment, health and safety, necessary for the plant  

4. Reporting  

  • Preparing monthly, semi-annual and annual project performance reports as per the agreed parameters and KPIs.   
  • Preparation of ESG Report, Continuous Improvement Project Proposals reports   
  • Preparation Performance reports to EPRA. 

Academic Experiences

Qualification Industry
Bachelor'S Degree Engineering And Technical

Essential Qualities

Essential Qualities
  • Must have at least 7 years of experience in a similar role 
  • HSE Training (NEBOSH IGC, MSc in OSH) or post graduate training in Safety 
  • Quality Management Systems ISO 9001 Lead Auditor  
  • Environmental Management Systems ISO 14001 Lead Auditor 

The ideal candidate should possess the following skills and competencies. 

  • Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Excellent organizational and multitasking skills.  
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills 


Application Process

Time to Answer

2 open days

Process

1 Phone Call
1 Onsite Interview

Days to get an Offer

4 Days after Interview

Close Date

20/05/2025