About the Role:
The HSE Manager will lead and manage Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) governance across various facilities including branches, offices, projects, contractors, and FM&A operations. This position focuses on establishing and maintaining effective HSE management systems, ensuring regulatory and organizational compliance, reducing risks, strengthening the safety culture, and supporting sustainability and business continuity objectives. The role also involves providing professional advice and assurance to management, overseeing HSE performance, leading incident investigations, managing contractor HSE requirements, and driving continuous improvement across FM&A activities.
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Key Accountabilities of the Role:
HSE Strategy, Governance & Management Systems:
- Develop and continuously improve FM&A HSE policies, procedures, standards, and management systems.
- Translate HSE objectives into annual plans, KPIs, and improvement initiatives.
- Ensure HSE requirements are implemented across facilities, branches, projects, contractors, and service providers.
- Maintain HSE documentation, registers, and compliance records.
- Identify emerging risks and drive continuous HSE improvement.
Regulatory & Compliance Management:
- Ensure compliance with applicable UAE HSE, Civil Defense, municipality, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain the HSE regulatory register and monitor relevant changes.
- Coordinate regulatory inspections, permits, certifications, and approvals.
- Manage compliance gaps and HSE audit findings through timely closure.
HSE Risk Management & Workplace Safety:
- Manage the identification, assessment, control, and monitoring of workplace HSE risks.
- Review risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work.
- Monitor workplace hazards, unsafe conditions, and occupational health risks.
- Ensure effective controls for high-risk activities and track mitigation actions to closure.
Incident Management & Investigation:
- Manage reporting and investigation of incidents, injuries, near misses, and unsafe conditions.
- Lead significant incident investigations and root cause analysis.
- Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and closed.
- Analyze incident trends and communicate lessons learned across FM&A.
Contractor & Project HSE Management:
- Establish and monitor HSE requirements for contractors, consultants, and service providers.
- Review contractor HSE plans, risk assessments, and method statements.
- Conduct inspections and audits across fit-out, renovation, maintenance, and construction activities.
- Monitor contractor HSE performance and escalate significant non-compliance.
Emergency Preparedness & Business Continuity:
- Maintain HSE emergency preparedness and response arrangements.
- Coordinate fire, evacuation, medical, and other emergency drills and exercises.
- Assess drill performance and ensure improvement actions are completed.
- Support Business Continuity, emergency recovery, and facilities resilience initiatives.
Environmental Management & Sustainability:
- Manage environmental risks associated with FM&A operations, projects, and contractors.
- Promote waste reduction, recycling, energy efficiency, water conservation, and responsible disposal.
- Support FM&A sustainability initiatives and the company's ESG objectives.
- Identify opportunities to improve environmental performance.
HSE Training, Awareness & Safety Culture:
- Develop and coordinate HSE training, awareness, induction, and competency programs.
- Ensure employees and contractors receive appropriate risk-based HSE training.
- Promote reporting of hazards, near misses, and unsafe conditions.
- Drive HSE engagement and a positive safety culture across FM&A.
HSE Inspection, Audit & Assurance:
- Develop and implement a risk-based HSE inspection and audit program.
- Conduct inspections across facilities, branches, projects, and contractor activities.
- Monitor findings and corrective actions through closure.
- Analyze recurring findings and provide HSE assurance to FM&A management.
Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the FM&A HSE focal point and provide professional HSE advice to management.
- Coordinate with Facilities, Projects, Security, Procurement, HR, BCM, Risk, Compliance, and Sustainability.
- Work with contractors, consultants, landlords, and service providers on HSE requirements.
- Represent FM&A in HSE committees, audits, investigations, and management reviews.
HSE Reporting & Performance Management:
- Establish and monitor HSE KPIs, targets, and performance measures.
- Prepare management dashboards, reports, and presentations.
- Report on incidents, audits, compliance, training, corrective actions, contractor performance, and environmental initiatives.
- Highlight key risks, trends, overdue actions, and improvement priorities to management.
Specialist Skills & Technical Knowledge Required:
- HSE Management Systems
- Occupational Health & Safety Management
- Environmental Management
- HSE Risk Assessment and Control
- Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Contractor HSE Management
- Construction and Fit-Out Safety
- Facilities Management HSE
- HSE Auditing and Inspection
- Permit-to-Work Systems
- Fire and Life Safety
- Business Continuity and Crisis Management
- UAE and Abu Dhabi HSE Regulatory Requirements
- Environmental Compliance and Sustainability
- HSE Performance Measurement and Reporting
- Corrective and Preventive Action Management
- ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management principles
- ISO 14001 Environmental Management principles
Previous Experience, Qualifications, Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Facilities Management, or related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant HSE experience, preferably including experience in managerial, supervisory, or HSE leadership capacity.
- Demonstrated experience in HSE management within banking, corporate facilities, facilities management, construction, fit-out, property, or other complex multi-site environments.
- This position is for UAE Nationals only.
