Safety, Health, Environment & Quality (SHEQ) Officer

The role focuses on ensuring compliance with legal requirements, company policies, and industry best practices to prevent accidents, incidents, and occupational ill health.

Job Title: Safety, Health, Environment & Quality (SHEQ) Officer

Division: Network and In-Home Division Trinidad

Department: Safety, Health, Environment & Quality (SHEQ)

Reporting Line: SHEQ Regional Manager (Caribbean)

Role summary:

The role focuses on ensuring compliance with legal requirements, company policies, and industry best practices to prevent accidents, incidents, and occupational ill health. Focus is primarily site-based on monitoring safe work practices, conducting inspections, and providing practical safety support to technicians, supervisors, and contractors.

Contract Type: 6 months

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work within the SHEQ team providing support and assistance throughout the business
• Prepare safety and environmental reports as required
• Conduct safety and environmental audits, inspections and observations including the management and maintenance of the audit tracker
• Monitor compliance with Safe Systems of Work, risk assessments and method statements.
• Identify hazards and support the development and implementation of risk mitigation and corrective action plan
• Report hazards, near misses, incidents, and unsafe practices in line with company procedures.
• Daily/weekly reporting to the SHEQ manager and project management staff
• Conduct incident/accident investigations and prepare reports for internal/external purposes
• Provide SHEQ advice and direction to staff and contractors.
• Promote safety awareness and positive safety behaviour among field teams.
• Liaise with supervisors and team leads to address safety issues identified on site.
• Support safe mobilisation and demobilisation of crews.

Skills and Qualifications required:

• Hold a recognized SHEQ qualification
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent planning, organizational training, teamwork and presentation skills
• Excellent literacy, numeric and IT skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Full, clean driving license for a minimum of 3 years
• Flexibility in line with business requirements
• Ability to always represent the company in a professional manner

NB: this position will be located in South Trinidad