HSE Manager - Doha, Qatar

Company Overview

Mission

HSE Leadership and Management

• Develop HSE policies, procedures, plans, objectives, KPIs, and programs aligned with company, client, contractual, legal, and ISO requirements.
• Lead the HSE management system, maintain controlled documentation, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
• Provide strategic and operational HSE advice to the Framework Manager and senior management.
• Spearhead the development of the project safety culture.

Risk Management and Site Safety

• Establish risk management processes and ensure risk assessments, JSA/JHA/AHA, method statements, and environmental risk assessments are completed.
• Monitor high-risk activities including PTW, LOTO, confined spaces, work at height, lifting, electrical work, hot work, excavation, and chemical handling.
• Conduct site inspections, safety walks, audits, and compliance checks and ensure corrective actions are completed.

Incidents, Emergencies, and Environment

• Lead serious or high-potential accident, incident, near-miss, and environmental investigations and ensure root-cause analysis and corrective action.
• Maintain emergency preparedness and response plans, coordinate drills, and ensure emergency arrangements remain effective.
• Manage waste, chemicals, spills, sludge, wastewater, emissions, noise, permits, monitoring, and environmental incident response.
• Identify and control occupational health risks including exposure, noise, ergonomics, heat stress, dust, and workplace hygiene.

Contractors, Training, and Compliance

• Manage contractor and subcontractor HSE prequalification, plan reviews, audits, inspections, performance monitoring, and deficiency close-out.
• Develop HSE induction, training, competency, toolbox talk, awareness, and safety campaign programs.
• Maintain legal and regulatory compliance registers and coordinate client, Ashghal, certification, and external audits.

Performance and Improvement

• Monitor leading and lagging HSE KPIs, incidents, inspections, audits, training, corrective actions, environmental performance, and trends.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, client, and management HSE reports and recommend improvement actions.
• Promote PDCA, benchmarking, lessons learned, good practices, and continual HSE process improvement.
• Manage the ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 audit program.

Team and Stakeholder Management

• Lead, manage, coach, and develop Safety Officers, Safety Engineers, Environmental Engineers, HSE Coordinators, and other HSE personnel.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Projects, Engineering, Asset Management, Procurement, HR, QA/QC, clients, contractors, and authorities.
• Interact with Ashghal engineers on HSE meetings, correspondence, proposals, documentation, and performance indicators.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Health and Safety, or a related field is required.
• The role requires at least 20 years of overall experience, including 10 years in HSE management or senior HSE leadership.
• Water or wastewater, utilities, infrastructure, industrial, construction, or O&M experience is preferred.
• NEBOSH IGC or equivalent is preferred, while ISO 45001 or ISO 14001 auditing or equivalent training is advantageous.
• Strong HSE systems, risk, investigation, auditing, environmental, contractor, and regulatory compliance knowledge is required.
• Working knowledge of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, HSE reporting systems, and MS Office is required.
• Fluent written and spoken English is required.