Superintendent - Emergency Response

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to lead the team of Emergency Response to ensure that Sohar Aluminium is secure and prepared for emergencies. Job holder is leading the emergency planning and emergency response as well as the site access control and security. 

Responsibilities

2.1  Development and implementation of effective EHS and security for Sohar Aluminium smelter, power plant and port

• Lead Emergency Response team and contracted workers to ensure effective and safe plant protection.
• Develop and Implement security plans and suggest further measures to provide effective and efficient security to SA sites
• Achieve agreed objectives as measured by specific performance criteria which have been quality of product, quality of environment, health and safety , costs, etc
• Participate in the formulation of EHS policies and practices in cooperation with other EHS superintendents.
• Maintain an adequate and properly trained work force; make recommendations to improve the Plant Protection training program.

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• Provide leadership in the development of good employees’ relations, good morale and performance by meeting regularly with all levels of employees to discuss EHS and production issues.
• Initiate programs to improve EHS performance in the area and offers support from his/her own team, where necessary
• Develop and monitor Emergency response budget
• Implement improvement projects to increase safety and security awareness at the sites operations and facilities
• Monitor the various permit systems on site and recommend change, where required
• Recommend additional or less security measures for the site and facilities by discussing with area management when situation arise

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2.2 Execute Corporate and Departmental strategy:

• Understand and interpret strategy and policy
• Communicate the vision and purpose to the teams
• Translate the corporate strategy and policies into tasks and work plans that are actionable by the teams

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2.3 Lead and motivate the Area teams to achieve excellence in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) performance 

• Deliver a safe work environment
• Lead a step up in EHS performance:
  • Devise creative ways to motivate people to work safely and to embrace EHS
  • Lead the necessary behavioural and operational changes to create an environment of EHS excellence
  • Develop the EHS systems - lead the teams to: (1) undertake root cause analysis of accidents or near misses and take the necessary action to mitigate risk; (2) review the EHS plan and formulate proposals for improvement; (3) execute projects to drive excellence in EHS
  • Lead the teams to execute programs to reduce resource usage (eg: energy, compressed air) and enhance environmental outcomes

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2.4 Apply innovation and leadership skills to lead and deliver continuous improvement and deliver improvement in performance. 

Lead the Area teams to:

• Generate ideas for improvement
• Identify improvement opportunities, analyse opportunities and focus on those that deliver the greatest return on investment
• Develop new solutions and implement the improvements

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2.5  Participate as a member of the Departmental Leadership team to ensure the success of the team and the Department

• Contribute to the Development of Departmental policy and strategy
• Lead the Area teams to: (1) continually analyse performance, and, (2)  generate and analyse ideas for improvement.  Bring the best ideas forward for consideration by the Departmental leadership team
• Collaborate with Departmental colleagues to maximize Departmental performance

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2.6  Lead the Area teams to safely deliver production targets and maximize profits

• Set stretching team goals and improvement targets; create milestones; adjust style and communications to lead and motivate different people; align team and individual goals with the Departmental and SA business objectives
• Set individual performance objectives, action WPPs, manage performance, develop and motivate staff, deliver formal and informal feedback, deliver on-the-job coaching to maximize individual, team and Departmental performance.  Action the disciplinary cycle if necessary.  Ensure the teams manage time and attendance and maintain accurate SAP records
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• Empower the teams to function within defined limits (delegate action to the lowest possible level)
• Apply a participative management style to lead the teams to a new level of performance (engage the team in problem-solving and decision-making).  Facilitate brain-storming to enable the best ideas to be expressed.  Encourage inter-dependent problem-solving and full ownership of outcomes, removing barriers where necessary. 
• Celebrate accomplishments
• Lead organizational change – plan and communicate proposed changes, ensuring the teams commitment to implementation

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2.7  Develop the teams to deliver improvement in workforce capability and sustained levels of performance

• Execute the SA Omanisation strategy
• Build capability via recruitment, talent management, training and development (including secondments) and retention initiatives
• Create an Area training and development strategy to increase the teams’ leadership, technical and inter-personal skills.  Leverage the SA training and development resources as well as Area and Departmental programs
• Action development initiatives (observe; coach; train; counsel under-performers)

• Take a leadership role in Departmental and Functional Talent management and succession planning to build Plant-wide capability
• Create a Talent pipeline for the Department and the Plant

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial management, Occupational health and safety, Environmental science, Industrial hygiene, or related disciplines with 8 years of relevant experience in fire fighter or fire maintenance system
• Trained in first-aid, firefighting, emergency response, rescue and/or security
• Operational experience:  Strong leadership, good teamwork, sound knowledge and experience in leading a team within a similar operating  environment to continuously deliver safe, efficient plant protection services

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Diploma
• NEBOSH certificate preferred in fire safety
• Innovation capability: a proven ability to improve current practices, generate ideas, find new solutions to operational challenges and implement the ideas.