Occupational Health & Safety Officer - Engineering, SC8, Cox's Bazar

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

Cox’s Bazar has been home to one of the world’s most protracted refugee situations, with more than 20 years of camp and makeshift site settlement by a Muslim minority from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, known as Rohingya. Since the 1990’s, the Government of Bangladesh hosts 34,000 officially registered refugees in two camps in Cox’s Bazar. A further 300,000-500,000 Rohingya refugees, politically referred to as Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) have been residing in poor conditions in neighboring Bangladeshi host communities, including some 77,100 in the two makeshift settlements adjacent to the official camps. Humanitarian partners estimate that the influx of new arrivals since August 2017 is likely to peak at 700,000-800,000.

Access to the refugee camps is critical to the humanitarian response where engineering works are undertaken as preventative measures and in preparation to react as required to maintain access.  A Site Maintenance and Engineering Project was established comprising the key stakeholders involved in the construction and use of the camp roads, namely IOM, UNHCR, and WFP. The Project undertakes the following four principal activities:

1. Clearing and strengthening primary drainage channels,
2. Maintaining vehicular access via maintenance, emergency repair and rehabilitation,
3. Materials supply, fabrication, and pre-positioning to facilitate rapid response,
4. Site preparation work.

JOB PURPOSE

To support the management of WFP’s safety across all construction worksites, health environment; supervise or co-ordinate work systems to ensure products and services meet the highest quality standards, and that working conditions are safe and meet legal requirements .

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Lead Engineer, the primary and overriding responsibility for the position is to; be responsible for safety across all construction worksites, health environment; supervise or co-ordinate work systems to ensure products and services meet the highest quality standards, and that working conditions are safe and meet legal requirements.

The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:

• Prepare and enforce policies to establish a culture of health and safety
• Evaluate practices, procedures and facilities to assess risks and adherence to legal requirements
• Develop and execute health and safety plans in the workplace according to legal guidelines
• Conduct regular Site inspections; inspect equipment and machinery to observe potential safety issues and complete prevention inspections on a regular basis and ensure records maintained of same.
• Investigate accidents or incidents to discover causes and report on health and safety awareness, issues and statistics and ensure all documentation is updated.
• Monitor compliance to policies and laws by inspecting employees and operations
• Ensure proper implementation of national legislation relating to health and safety issues and conduct Annual H&S audits.
• Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities or new prevention measures
• Conduct training and presentations for health and safety matters and accident prevention

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:BSc/Masters in Civil Engineering OR Safety management for construction or relevant field is preferred or other valid qualification in occupational health and safety in Engineering

Experience: At least 5 years’ Proven experience as safety manager

Knowledge & Skills:

• Good theoretical understanding of security management concepts and principals with a knowledge of best practices, techniques and processes.
• Ability to assimilate a range of information and make basic analyses to support the development of efficient solutions.
• Good communication skills and ability to adapt communication style to different situations and individuals.
• Ability to contribute to and/or deliver effective briefing and training, assessing participant needs.
• Knowledge of common business principals and processes and the ability to quickly assimilate UN/WFP specific processes and systems.

Language: Excellent written and oral/communications skills in both English and Bangla

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Data Analysis, Risk Management & Risk Assessment experience
• Site inspections and investigations
• Deep understanding of legal health and safety guidelines
• Ability in producing reports and developing relevant policies
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities
• Company preparation for Audits
• Compliance and maintenance of relevant standards
• Full MS Office knowledge and computer literacy

Strong preference will be given to those who can prove they can operate in fast-fluid environments with limited resources. The ideal candidate will be both detailed-oriented, determined, proactive and impatient to get stuff done. The Engineer must be extremely fast-thinking and efficient.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Fluency in oral Chittagonian/Rohingyan dialect

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Contract Type             : Service Contract, SC8

Contract Duration        : 12 months

Duty Station                : Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Nationality                   : Bangladeshi

Monthly Salary            : BDT. 188,945

Number of post           : 01

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

15 June 2019

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.