HSE Manager

Dangote Group is one of Nigeria’s most diversified business conglomerates with a hard – earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria in West Africa. We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: HSE Manager

Location: Kogi

Employment type: Full-time

Job Summary

The HSSE Manager will lead the factory’s HSSE management strategy. The role holder will establish practical controls for the Plant’s HSSE operations, protect employees, contractors, visitors, assets and the surrounding environment, and support safe, reliable and compliant production processes. The position holder will provide safety and health at work strategic and operational leadership through the Plant’s activities and contractors’ inclusive. The HSSE Manager will promote a proactive HSSE culture while ensuring risks are identified, controlled, monitored and continually reduced. Duties &

Responsibilities

HSSE Leadership and Management Systems: Develop, implement and periodically review the factory SOPs. Maintain an integrated HSSE management system aligned with applicable legal requirements and recognized occupational health, safety and environmental management principles and Group Standards and Guidelines. Advise factory leadership on significant risks, compliance obligations, emerging issues, required resources and improvement priorities. Lead HSSE meetings, management reviews, safety/steering committees and workforce consultation processes. Liaise with Plant Leadership and Managers to set clear HSSE responsibilities for supervisors, employees and contractors; monitor accountability and followthrough. Promote visible leadership through shop-floor engagement, safety conversations, inspections and recognition programmes. Hazard Identification and Operational Risk Control: Lead baseline, task-based and change-related risk assessments, including job safety analysis and process hazard reviews. Ensure e ective guarding, interlocks and safe operating procedures for all production machines and equipment. Control critical activities through permit-to-work systems for hot work, isolation of hazardous energies, work at height, and lifting equipment safety. Establish lockout/tagout standards and verify the isolation of electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and thermal energy before maintenance. Manage risks from molten polymer, hot surfaces, rotating equipment, sharp blades and needles, inks, solvents, adhesives, chemicals, forklifts, lifting operations, noise, dust, fumes, static electricity and combustible materials. Lead management-of-change reviews for new equipment, raw materials, chemicals, processes, layouts and production rates before implementation. Ensure suitable personal protective equipment is selected, available, maintained and correctly used, without treating PPE as a substitute for higher-level controls. Legal and Regulatory Compliance: Maintain a current register of applicable occupational safety, environmental, fire, security, labour and public-health obligations. Coordinate permits, licences, statutory inspections, certifications and regulatory submissions within required timelines. Interface professionally with regulators, emergency services, auditors and other authorized stakeholders. Track compliance actions to closure and retain auditable records. Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene: Establish exposure-assessment programmes for noise, heat stress, dust, fumes, vapours, ergonomics, lighting and other relevant workplace agents. Coordinate risk-based health surveillance, fitness-to-work assessments, first-aid coverage and occupational health referrals while protecting medical confidentiality. Implement controls for manual handling, repetitive work, machine ergonomics, workplace sanitation, potable water, welfare facilities and communicabledisease risks. Investigate suspected occupational illnesses and identify preventive actions. Environmental Management: Identify significant environmental aspects and establish controls for air emissions, wastewater, stormwater, noise, energy, water consumption, waste and spill prevention. Ensure proper segregation, labelling, storage, transfer and disposal of polymer scraps, woven o -cuts, paper waste, ink and solvent residues, oily waste, used containers and other regulated waste. Promote material recovery, recycling, resource e iciency and pollution prevention while maintaining accurate environmental records. Monitor environmental performance and investigate exceedances, complaints, spills and unauthorized releases. Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness: Maintain a site emergency response and drills plan covering fire, chemical spills, medical emergency, security threat, and other credible scenarios. Ensure fire-detection, alarm, suppression, hydrants, extinguishers, emergencylighting and evacuation systems are inspected, tested and accessible. Organize training for emergency teams, evacuation wardens, first aiders, drills and post-drill reviews across all shifts and write/cascade their reports promptly. Maintain clear evacuation routes, assembly points, emergency contacts, mutualaid arrangements and response equipment with neighbour Group Business Unit. Incident Management and Learning: Ensure prompt reporting, classification, preservation of evidence and investigation of injuries, illnesses, near misses, fires, spills, and property damage due to in-Plant or road transport accident. Lead root-cause investigations using a consistent methodology; develop corrective and preventive actions that address system weaknesses. Communicate lessons learned, verify action e ectiveness and identify trends across shifts, departments and recurring