Job Vacancy at Nokia

Job description

General Purpose

• Managing Health and Safety, Security, Environmental Protection and Privacy in Nokia’s operation in approx 10 countries across East Africa.
• Ensuring localisation and implementation of Nokia’s HSSE standards and procedures both internally and across an external supplier base.

Main Responsibility Area

• HSSE Ops Representative and supervisor in respective Sub-Region
• Development, agreement and leading of the implementation of HSSE country action plans
• Compliance with local legal and customer obligations
• Localization and implementation of global Standards
• Management of team
  • guidance and consultancy,
  • supervision and support,
  • coordination of tasks and workload,
  • coaching and development of people
• Guidance and consultancy for management in
• Business Groups,
• Customer Operations,
• Global Services and Field Forces
• Other internal and external Stakeholders

Position Description

• HSSE Ops Manager East Africa
• Implementation of agreed annual HSSE country action plans
• Reports to Head HSSE Operations MEA
• Plans and coordinates local HSSE activities, identifies appropriate service providers and supports Nokia Procurement with the technical evaluation and selection.
• Supervises team and service provider and coordinates local operations.
• Executes employee empowerment, training, development and motivation.
• Ensures that Nokia Minimum Standards are localized, that they comply with local regulations and are implemented and aligned with prevailing risks/threats.
• Agrees on and controls the timely implementation of HSSE goals and country action plans
• Manages sub-regional and local HSSE operational approach to mitigate risks, to implement, execute and control HSSE operations and to assure business continuity.
• Prioritizes and executes the implementation and maintenance of HSSE standards, programs and processes.
• Scopes the implementation of Nokia Non-Negotiables and Life Saving Rules (LSR).
• Ensures the implementation of consequence management across the Sub-Region.
• Agrees and supports Targeted Assurance activity to verify and validate SOP implementation.
• Leads the programme for the implementation of High Risk Project Implementation Assessments (HRPIA), ensuring the identification of high risk projects and the closure of identified Corrective Actions.
• Agrees and coordinates a schedule of Senior Leader Tours.
• Supports internal/external audit management systems in the Sub-Region’s countries and ensures timely completion of agreed corrective actions.
• Leads the investigation of incidents within the Sub-Region, synchronizing the involvement and interaction of the business, HS&E, Corporate Security, L&C and external organisations to ensure a satisfactory outcome.
• Enhances the communication of investigation findings and Corrective Actions to ensure timely and satisfactory completion.
• Provides regular status reports relating to new and ongoing activities and completed actions.
• Ensures prompt and thorough Sub-Regional response to locally reported incidents and provides feedback to the incident reporter via the incident reporting tool.
• Responsible for overseeing and rationalizing HSSE expenditure and budget management within the Sub-Region.

Position Requirements

• Experienced Health, Safety and Security manager able to
• Lead, guide, develop and coach small teams.
• Independently manage all facets of HSSE respecting the diversity of legal, cultural and customer requirements across the breadth of the West African countries.
• Provide HSSE technical leadership and functional guidance to Nokia’s business organizations.
• Oversee and/or assist with development and/or implementation of HSSE programs in different countries.
• Cooperate well with a broad range of stakeholders MCA, HSSE Global and Operations, local Management (BG, GS, FF, CO, WR, IT, GPO etc) and external stakeholders regarding implementation of company-wide HSSE strategies, programs and standards.
• Investigate major incidents such as High Potential Incidents, Fatalities and severe security incidents and provide qualified reports which provide root cause analysis and include agreed corrective actions.
• Review security, safety and environmental incidents, trends, company compliance and produce/adjust action plans to mitigate those factors.
• Formulate key performance indicators and monitor achievement of objectives within the Sub-Region.
• Assess high risk projects and ensure implementation of associated H&S improvement programmes.
• Assess suppliers’ maturity and consult with stakeholders to ensure improvement.
• Share effective practices on EH&S to enhance knowledge of team members.
• Inform reviews of environmental, safety, health conditions and wellbeing within the Sub-Region.
• Establish procedures and introduce an EH&S Management System meeting the requirements of OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001.
• Coordinate the response to customer related queries on health, safety, security, environmental and privacy issues in the Sub-Region.
• Prove a minimum of 5 years’ experience in HSSE operations as well as a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in/on West Africa operations. Strong security background required.
• Good interpersonal skills and highly articulate presentation, communication and training skills.
• Develop, schedule and manage the timely delivery of projects (proven PM).