Lead Health & Safety Manager at Nokia

In this role, you will work within a collaborative team dedicated to implementing Health and Safety requirements related to customer projects. You will engage with cross-functional teams from customer, Nokia project team and Suppliers, leveraging your Health and Safety experience and knowledge to drive H&S risk mitigation strategy and achieve our H&S Goal. The environment promotes continuous learning and innovation, offering opportunities to lead H&S in customer projects, share best practices, and mentor colleagues. You will enjoy a flexible work culture that values work-life balance, professional development, and growth opportunities. Nokia provides a competitive compensation package, health benefits, and access to cutting-edge tools and technologies. You will make a tangible impact on projects while contributing to a customer-centric ethos, making your work highly rewarding.

Your responsibilities

• Acts as customer interface for Project Health & Safety management.
• Support the development, maintenance and monitor the execution of project/customer specific health & safety plan and ensure alignment with customer and suppliers’ contractual requirements.
• Ensure compliance with Nokia Life Saving Rules and Vodacom Absolute Rule by project team and suppliers
• Conduct induction training sessions with Nokia employees and suppliers prior to deployment on projects
• Identifies, initiates and follows up on H&S corrective and preventive improvement actions for projects.
• Perform project H&S risk profiling and communicate needs to Procurement for supplier selection.
• Implement the program of supervision, monitoring and audit to ensure that high risk activities are appropriately controlled.
• Ensure H&S file is compiled for each project and that the updated file is available.
• Manage H&S project resources & resource requirements.
• Prepare monthly health & safety report and circulate to customer and project team and conduct project review meetings.
• Attend customer meeting and follow up on action items for implementation.
• Conduct H&S due diligence site visits in all regions of responsibility.
• Ensure all accident/incident/near miss reported on time and conduct accident investigations.
• Conduct regular H&S meetings with various project teams in assigned account.
• Participate in any third-party audit on H&S where needed.
• Update training matrix and arrange training or re-training as needed 
• Facilitate Senior Leaders Safety Tours
• Compile monthly KPI dashboard with all relevant information
• Use Safety360 or other tools to upload all H&S related documents and Inspection reports

Your skills and experience

Must-Have:

• Degree level education preferably a telecom graduate
• NEBOSH/SAMTRC qualification
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Telecom H&S
• Knowledge of South African legal requirement related to Health and Safety
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Familiar with Vodacom/Vodafone/Safaricom H&S requirements
• Proficiency with MS office tools especially excel to manage reporting and generate dashboard for each region H&S performance KPIs

Nice-To-Have:

• Experience with ISO certification programs and internal audits
• Experience in project management within the telecom field
• Familiarity with QHS inspection tools and software like s360, NDPd
• Ability to influence and negotiate with suppliers
• Membership in any health and safety associations
• Digital safety awareness and innovation mindset.

More information

Some of our benefits:

• Flexible and hybrid working schemes
• A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility)
• Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security
• Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health
• Opportunities to join and receive support from Nokia Employee Resource Groups (NERGs)
• Employee Growth Solutions to support your personalized career & skills development
• Diverse pool of Coaches & Mentors to whom you have easy access
• A learning environment which promotes personal growth and professional development - for your role and beyond