HSE Manager

Dangote Packaging Limited

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

1. 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.

2, 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 event types.
• Complete internal and statutory notifications within required timelines.

8. Training, Communication and Culture

• Develop a competency-based and gap analysed HSSE training matrix for employees, supervisors and contractors.
• Ensure e ective induction, refresher training, toolbox talks, machine-specific instruction and verification of understanding.
• Coach line leaders to integrate HSSE requirements into planning, shift handovers, production meetings and performance reviews.
• Encourage hazard reporting and stop-work intervention without retaliation; recognize constructive participation and improvement ideas.

9. Contractor and Visitor Management

• Assist during prequalification of contractors against defined Group HSSE Guidelines and criteria and ensure contracts include appropriate HSSE requirements.
• Verify inductions, competencies, licences, risk assessments, work permits, supervision and close-out of contractor work.
• Set proportionate controls for visitors, drivers, temporary workers and delivery personnel.
• Review contractor performance and intervene when unsafe or non-compliant conditions are identified.

10. Assurance, Reporting and Continual Improvement

• Plan and conduct site inspections, management walkthroughs, behavioural observations, compliance evaluations, audits (internal, external and Group led) and management-system reviews.
• Maintain reliable HSSE data and issue concise daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to the Head HSSE and Sustainability.
• Analyse leading and lagging indicators, identify adverse trends and recommend prioritized improvement initiatives.
• Track actions from incidents, audits, inspections, risk assessments and management reviews to verified closure.
• Benchmark performance, share good practices and support certification or customer-assurance audits where required.

11. Decision-Making Authority

• Stop or suspend work where there is an imminent risk to people, the environment, assets or legal compliance.
• Require corrective action, isolation of unsafe equipment, evacuation of an a ected area and escalation of observed anomalies to Plant leadership/ responsible person(s).
• Reject inadequate risk assessments, permits, contractor arrangements or proposed changes until suitable controls are established.
• Recommend disciplinary or contractual action for serious or repeated breaches, subject to company safe work procedures.

Job Requirement

Qualifification & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene or a related discipline.
• Recognized professional HSSE certification, baseline required NEBOSH IGC.
• Substantial progressive HSSE experience in manufacturing, including experience leading a team in a factory or Plant HSSE function.
• Demonstrated knowledge of machinery safety, hazardous energy control, fire prevention, chemical safety, industrial hygiene, environmental controls and incident investigation.
• Working knowledge of applicable HSSE legislation, regulatory processes and management-system auditing, e.g. ISO 45001.
• Experience supervising teams, influencing senior leaders and working effectively with shop-floor personnel and contractors.
• Competence in report writing, data analysis, presentations and standard office applications.

Skills & Competences

• Excellent ability and capacity to mentor team members with empathy and team spirit.
• Good leadership skills, good risk judgement, good communication skills (written and oral), ability to influence with integrity, ability to plan and execute set targets.
• Training in fire safety, emergency response command, first aid, ergonomics or industrial hygiene.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, e.g. ISPON, TechIOSH.
• Minimum of five years on team leadership role in a manufacturing industry.