Manager, Health and Safety

Manager, Health and Safety

DP World in Fairburn, GA is seeking a passionate, proactive, and influential Health & Safety Manager who's ready to create a safer, smarter, and more empowered workplace.

In this high-impact role, you'll be the guardian of our safety culture developing and enforcing safety programs, leading training initiatives, reducing risk, and ensuring our teams go home safely every single day. You'll collaborate closely with Operations, Quality, and Leadership to identify hazards, drive compliance, and champion continuous improvement across the entire site.

If you're someone who thrives on responsibility, communicates with confidence, and takes pride in protecting people and strengthening processes, this is your opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our employees.

Become the leader who sets the standard, shapes the culture, and keeps our operation running safely and efficiently. We're ready for your expertise.

About the Role

How you will contribute :

• Identify, develop, and maintain company health and safety management systems, training programs, and procedures in line with all current legislation for the assigned country(s). Perform monthly safety inspections and maintenance.
• Represent the company at external audits on all health and safety matters. Ensure compliance to audit standards and work with auditors and vendors to answer findings and complaints in a timely, efficient and professional manner.
• Design and develop written health and safety procedures. Monitor, revise, and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws or reporting requirements. Provide technical safety and health support and information to all employees.
• Responsible for the co-coordination of risk assessment activities including record keeping. Analysis of risk assessment, near miss and accident data to presenting to the senior management team. Develop long term strategies to reduce accidents that are data driven.
• Investigate accidents to include gathering all documentation in line with company policies, compiling all documentation relating to any insurance claims made against the company, and liaising with insurance companies, solicitors and other related organizations in pursuit of insurance claims.
• Develop & deliver safety training programs to reduce work place accidents and incidents including assessment of such training activities. Administer mandatory safety training and ensure all newly hired employees, agency employees, contractors, visitors and transferred employees receive proper training.
• Represent the company at any internal safety meetings, customer or supplier safety meetings presenting data, recording actions, and monitoring the progress of those actions.
• Work with the operational teams to improve the working environment and reduce the impacts to the employee from operational activities as well as recommend process and product safety features that will reduce employees' exposure to work hazards.
• Inspect facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety and environmental regulation compliance. This will include property in and around the facility. Review plans and specifications for development of new machinery, equipment or processes to determine whether all safety requirements have been met. Manage and support all documentation related to material handling equipment.
• Other duties as assigned

Your key qualifications :