Manager, Newbuild Safety

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Position Summary:

A Safety Manager is responsible for developing, leading and implementing the health, safety and environmental programs at the Newbuild operational organisation, as part of the shipbuilding process with shipyards and key stakeholders. Position main focus is to prevent And reduce fires during the newbuilding process, accidents and other injuries that are related to work. Position requires capabilities to design and monitor safety programs using data trends and make necessary changes to the program such as increasing safety measures when needed. Safety Manager look to create proactive safety cultures at workplaces where employees feel comfortable to voice their concerns.

Key functions at the Safety Manager role is to establish joint culture and processes with the shipyards and key stakeholders to have preventive forward looking measures to minimize and incidents during the projects

Safety Manager role is cross functional between various locations and Management teams, in all Newbuild projects

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsibility of internal development, implementation and monitoring of Safety processes, standards and best practices in all Newbuild Site Offices and related yards
• Verification and implementation Safety processes supported by Project Managements, site office teams and as far as possible with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaboration with internal key partners such as, but not limited, Miami Risk Management and Medical team, Solutions team, Brands Safety representative, Operations Safety officers and Business Excellence team.
• Collaboration with all yards related to safety processes development and implementation. Joint processes monitoring and reporting various phases of the projects
• Leading internal Safety training to our Newbuild team and monitor training needs & requirements
• Strong team builder, works in seamless manner with various stakeholders.
• Close collaboration with classification societies at the safety related items
• Ensuring safety related mitigative actions are taking place and are followed as agreed between various parties.
• Develops, together with internal key stakeholders as well as with yard and other external stakeholder  KPI’s to track the good progress of the projects safety aspects.
• Coordinate safety resources in various projects, jointly with the project management teams and Site office Leads.
• Supports and participates safety verifications in various Newbuild locations.
• Leads development and implementation of quality, risk and safety standards/ guidelines internally and externally withing collaboration of defined key partners. 
• Spends time walking onboard the vessels as they are under construction, to understand safety situation in various projects.
• Visit at the external production locations and develop same safety processes with external production locations   
• Support and align processes and way of working with Brand and Solutions counterparts.
• Support Brands operations and Solution in drydocking quality, risk and safety processes.
• Maintains good relations with shipyard counterparts.
• Close collaboration with the TK and suppliers to ensure safety aspects are followed and mitigated actions implemented
• Thrives in an innovative, forward thinking, proactive, and collaborative environment that brings all disciplines together and creates favorable results.  Commitment to learning & growth of oneself and others.
• Studies, collects, shares, compare, stores statistical information, and, analyze various ships and areas bringing forth observations.
• Creates presentations and reports for design management and project management
• Regularly conducts reviews to check that operational Safety aspects are fulfilled as per standards, guidelines, rules and following best practices.
• Participate official internal and external safety audits as lead of safety, as defined her/his job description
• Develop and update health, safety and environmental programs
• Promote a proactive safety culture
• Create metrics for measuring the effectiveness of safety programs
• Identify and communicate workplace hazards with staff
• Have a strong understanding of safety regulations
• Participates / Conduct accident/fire/flooding investigations, reviews and root cause analyses
• Facilitate safety related relationships with key partners and stakeholders
• Maintain and periodically review risk management systems and tools
• Participate in meetings with others in project management team
• Conduct on-site workplace inspections to identify workplace hazards
• Work with individual facility supervisors to improve their operational safety
• Coordinate training for safety and environmental programs
• Identify undesirable trends and make recommendations for corrective actions
• Implement and maintain emergency response plans, including the crisis management escalation reports
• Stays current in industry trends and innovation through research and market knowledge at the respective areas of Safety and environment.
• Is committed to extensive travelling during the year and owns capabilities to spend long period of time in outside location as example during the ship deliveries.
• Performs other duties as required.  This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• No direct Finance responsibilities
• Works in close cooperation with Project Manager and project finance team
• Works with senior management budgetary planning.
• Coordinate the budget for health and safety programs
• Approves all expenses and payments made by direct reports

Key skills & experience required:

• Is highly motivated, efficient, and organized.  Has fundamental understanding of time management, with priorities being established by supervisor.   Works on multiple projects, and multiple tasks under various team members. Has strong ability to maintain focus
• Ability to travel internationally or domestically more than 50% of the time.  
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and employees, across diverse cultures around the world.
• Requires a high level of written and verbal communication skills to convey concepts and requirements of the team to technical and non-technical individuals.   Is effective at simplifying complexity.
• Requires strong teamwork and collaborative leadership skills to develop rapport within the department, with other departments, and externally.
• Possesses self-motivation with ability to mobilize people and resources to action, within a high-paced environment.
• Good ability to proactively identify problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Possesses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Able to work in multicultural working environment and willingness to travel extensively.
• Working knowledge of computer software for communication and presentations. 

Qualifications:

In-depth 10 years’ experience in the Safety focussed positions at the shipyard or onboard positions

• Minimum bachelor’s degree i
• Minimum 10-years of Experience from Marine, Marine industry  occupational health and safety manager or higher roles.
• Military or Military based Safety related functions, that are in or linked to Marine environment are considered as benefit
• Deep knowledge of fire procedures and workplace health & Safety are considered as benefit
• Minimum of 10 years working at the Safety related positions at the shipyards, onboard the cruise ships preferred
• Minimum of 5 years managing or team lead position in large projects.
• Minimum of 3-5 years managing direct reports preferred.    

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions.

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