Promote Safety. Protect People. Drive HSE Excellence.
Sahara Group is seeking an experienced and proactive HSE Manager to lead health, safety, and environmental initiatives, ensure regulatory compliance, and promote a strong culture of safety across business operations. This opportunity is ideal for candidates with experience in health, safety, and environmental management, occupational safety, risk management, environmental management, engineering, compliance, or related fields.
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Job Title: HSE Manager
Job Identification: 587
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Maintain an incident and injury free workplace, by promoting the awareness and implementation of Company Health & Safety Policies and Procedures.
- Provide HSE consultation and support for Operations Team.
- Develop drilling/completion/production safety manuals and protocols for the company.
- Support behavior-based safety observation programs by coaching and identifying areas for improved safety behaviors and practices.
- Coordinate with contractor safety personnel to understand safety performance gaps and implement improvement plans.
- Prepare and submit HSSE related reports as at when required.
- Appoint incident investigation teams to identify root cause factors (Taproot processes or equivalent) when incidents occur, and ensure corrective and preventive measures are delivered as required.
- Communicate pertinent best practices, lessons learned, safety and environmental alerts to rig/operational staff.
- Plan, coordinate and manage all environmental impact assessment (EIA) and related activities as required on the Block OML11.
- Ensure accident and emergency procedures are properly documented & carried out, drills exercised in all instances, and that all necessary certifications are held by staff authorization to act within HSE requirements.
- Review/Develop where necessary contractors’ work method statement, JHA, HSSE plans, Bridging document, emergency response plan, HSE MS, HSE Cases, work procedures etc
- Participate and audit job-planning activities, including Permit to Work, JSA’s and hazard recognition.
- Participate in facility Safety Committees.
- Conduct monthly self-verification reviews of key HSSE systems
- Assist the commercial, engineering and Operations department in their dealings with clients in all issues concerned with Health and Safety at work.
- Conduct safety audits of the facility & workplace periodically.
- Provide technical support to Senior Management on any safety related subjects.
- Provides safety support and advice, including supervision on preparation of plans and procedures for initial contract start up activities.
- Performs HSSE Risk Assessment on facilities, and proffer mitigations.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or any related Sciences Degree.
- Minimum of 12 years in a similar role in the oil/gas sector (Masters’ degree is an added advantage.
- Experienced in the use of standard MS Office software (Word, Excel and Power Point)
- NEBOSH IGC
- NISP or any International Safety Membership
- Audit (IRCA Certified- ISO45001/9001/14001)
- HAZID- Hazard Identification
- HSE Management System
- HAZOP-Hazard Operability
- ISO 18001:9001/45001
- ISO 14001
- HSE Audit/Inspection/Walkthrough
- LOTO
- Drill(Oil Spill, Fire, Medevac)
- First Aid-CPR
Application Closing Date
29th August, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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