Sustainability Officer - Occupational Health and Safety

Company Description

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Gulf.

Job Description

Job Purpose:
The Sustainability Officer is responsible for engaging internal and external
stakeholders to uplift company 's occupational health and safety performance
in order to achieve its long-term goals and priorities, in compliances with
relevant national and international laws and regulations and in response to
company's priority of employees' safety and well-being as a responsible
corporate citizen.
The Sustainability Officer, in cooperation with senior sustainability Officer,
is responsible for engaging targeted suppliers in upstream supply chain
through education, assessment and audit in order to uplift their occupational
health and safety performance and in support of company's long-term
sustainability goals.
He/she is in charge of attaining from relevant stakeholders a buy-in of
importance of in-operations occupational health and safety via planning,
implementing, monitoring, reviewing and reporting of company's occupational
health and safety performance. He/she is responsible for initiating practical
models of occupational health and safety that can be rolled out to other
regions and other relevant target groups. His/her roles also cover responses
to national and international benchmarks in areas of occupational health and
safety with continual improvement of applicable score and percentile ranking.
Main Responsibilities:
In-house implementation of occupational health and safety
* Work closely with relevant functions to implement applicable occupational health and safety practices in operations in order to reduce and prevent recurrence of near-missed incidents and accidents
* Arrange an annual workshop/sessions to enhance occupational health and safety capability of relevant colleagues
* Develop and maintain systematic database to capture needed occupational health and safety indicators for reporting purpose
Educate, assess, audit and improve tier ‎1 and non-tier ‎1 suppliers '
performance on occupational health and safety
* Arrange educational workshops on occupational health and safety for targeted suppliers
* Maintain online occupational health and safety assessment of targeted suppliers
* On-site/remotely audit targeted suppliers on occupational health and safety with issued improvement plans where needed
* Regularly follow up and cooperate with targeted suppliers to continually improve their occupational health and safety non-conformities
Update on applicable occupational health and safety laws, regulations and
standards
* Keep up-to-date applicable occupational health and safety laws, regulations and standards to ensure company's and its suppliers' compliances and continual improvement against those laws, regulations and standards
Initiation of occupational health and safety models/kits
* Devise practical models/kits or applicable tools of occupational health and safety practices that can be rolled out to other regions and other relevant target groups in order to expand reporting scope

Qualifications

Qualifications:
* Fluent in English (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
* Good interpersonal skill and able to communicate to all levels
* Self-motivated, adaptable and able to work in high-demand situations
* Self-learning and eager to learn new things
* Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
* Ability to foster trust relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
* Skill in networking with external stakeholders
Education:
* Bachelor's Degree in occupational health and safety or related fields. Master's Degree in related fields is a plus.
Experience:
* Minimum ‎3-year progressive experiences in occupational health and safety implementation and/or audit
* * Experience in project management