CV SHEQ Practitioner ARIIFM LLC United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi - Metallon Gold Zimbabwe Harare

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Last Updated: Friday, December 25, 2009

I am a goal oriented SHEQ Practitioner with 5 years experience working for biggest gold mining group in Zimbabwe, with 5 operations and the largest facility management/catering company in the United Arab Emirates . I have vast experience in all the SHEQ aspects, food safety and hygiene, accident/incident prevention/investigation, environmental monitoring, rehabilitation, pollution control, EIAs, hazard identification/risk assessments, occupational health surveillance, behaviour based safety (BBS) and ISO14001/9001, OHSAS18001 and HACCP. I am looking forward to a challenging SHEQ career where I can utilize my skills to achieve the goals of the organization and to grow with the organization. I am innovative, versatile, success driven and I have vast experience in environmental management, occupational health and safety and food safety. SHEQ is my passion and I am willing and motivated to do any SHEQ work.

Current Employer: ARIIFM LLC (United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi)
Position: Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Officer
Duration: December 2008 – to date
Company Profile:
The organization is the largest facility management company in the United Arab Emirates. It’s currently contracted to provide facility management for the Yas Island Development Project (www.yasisland.ae). The facility caters for 40000 employees.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing the organisation’s HSEQ policy, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and HACCP management systems.
• Development and reviewing of HSEQ procedures.
• Advising management on all HSEQ matters.
• HSEQ legal compliance.
• Coordination of HSEQ inspections, audits and training and awareness programs
• Food safety, quality incidents investigation.
• Monitoring of complex and bulk food preparation processes (Cook Chill, Cook Freeze).
• Carrying out risk assessments for all the organisation’s significant aspects and hazards, and developing programmes for the monitoring and abatement of the impacts of these aspects. Accident investigation and analysis.
• Ensuring that all subcontractors carry out their contractual obligations as per the organisation’s HSEQ policy.
• Instituting all communication procedures (both internal and external) for all SHEQ issues.
• Developing and implementation of waste management plan.
• Integrated pest control management.
• HSEQ budgeting and budget control


Previous Employer: Metallon Gold Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe)
Duration: September 2004 – December 2008
Position: Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Superintendent
Company Profile:
The organization is a gold mining giant operating 5 mines in Zimbabwe, each mine with 1300 employees. The organization was operating on the ISO14001, OHSAS18001 and the Behaviour Based Safety Programme.

Responsibilities:
• Development of SHE policies, strategies and procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with SHE standards on site by following internal procedures and local and international standards by producing SHE plan, procedures and programs for operational sites and drawing up recommendations through head of departments.
• Coordinating the establishment of the emergency preparedness plan and procedures in the event of accidents, pollution, chemical, oil spills and other environmental incidents.
• Preparation, development and delivery of SHE training.
• SHE database development and maintenance.
• Preparation, development and implementation of SHE Management System and procedures in line with ISO 14001and OHSAS 18001
• Co-ordination of SHE audits, inspections and work safety analysis.
• Natural resources and energy management.
• Internal EIA implementation and monitoring.
• Liaising with stakeholders on SHE issues and networking.
• Water and effluent quality management.
• Environmental monitoring and rehabilitation
• Accident and environmental incidents investigation and analysis.
• Preparing SHE reports and budgets, and advising management on SHE issues.
• Co-ordination of SHE events (World Environmental Day, Safety Week, First Aid Competitions, World AIDS Day, Tree Planting Day and Clean Up Campaigns), Behavioural Safety Programme and implementation of community SHE programmes.
• Coordination of the SHEQ research programme involving research by students form various institutions.


Skills Developed:
Managerial, Technical Report Writing, Technical Presentations, Budgeting, and Project Management Skills

Projects:

1. Sanitary Landfill Project, Internal Environmental Expert, Metallon Gold Zimbabwe, January – September 2007
Project involved the siting of a sanitary landfill.
Personally responsible for:
• Attending project meetings and providing environmental, health and safety advice.
• Carrying out environmental prefeasibility studies.
• Working closely with the external consultant to carry out the Environmental Impact Assessment.

2. Sands Retreatment Project, Environmental Expert, Metallon Gold Zimbabwe, January – June 2008
Project involved the reprocessing of an old tailings dam.
Personally responsible for:
• Attending project meetings and providing environmental, health and safety advice.
• Carrying out environmental prefeasibility studies.
• Carrying out the project Environmental Management Plan in liaison with the authorities.
• Environmental control.

3. Reedbuck and Ceylon Project, Internal Environmental Expert, Metallon Gold Zimbabwe, February - April 2006,
Project comprised of exploration trenches and an open pit.
Personally responsible for:
• Attending project meetings and providing environmental, health and safety advice.
• Working closely with the external consultant to carry out the Environmental Impact Assessment.
• Carrying out environmental prefeasibility studies.
• Post project implementation environmental monitoring and rehabilitation.

4. Gweru City Council Sanitary Landfill Environment Impact Assessment, Gweru City Council, Student on Attachment, December 2002- April 2003
Project comprised of a sanitary landfill.
Personally responsible for:
• Attending project meetings.
• Assisting the City Council Environmental Practitioners.
• Carrying out environmental prefeasibility studies.
• Attending public consultation meetings

Major Achievements:
• Successful rehabilitation of tailing dumps.
• Zero environmental penalties since I joined resulting in reduction of environmental costs.
• Improvement of the discharge point effluent water quality from red category to blue.
• Value realisation from successful waste management programmes.
• Reduction of lost time accidents from 5 per month to zero, therefore reduction in company medical costs.

• Bsc Honours Degree in Applied Environmental Sciences University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, July 2004
• Postgraduate Diploma in Water and Sanitation, Institute of Water and Sanitation, Zimbabwe, May 2008
• Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety, Royal Society of Public Health (UK), June 2009
• Level 3 Intermediate HACCP in Manufacturing, Royal Society of Public Health (UK), July 2009
• ISO14001 Implementation, Standards Association of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, May 2006
• Safety, Health Advisors Certificate National Social Security Authority, Zimbabwe, March 2006 ( Equivalent to NEBOSH General Certificate)
• Advanced First Aid Certificate, Red Cross, Zimbabwe, August 2005
• SHE Legal Assessment, Neuber Management Systems, Zimbabwe, July 2008

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excell, Access, SPSS and Minitab

• Excellent communication skills and ability to build rapport easily with clients and for effective networking.
• Highly motivated self starter who can work with a little supervision and who can handle situations independently.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze situations, find out different point of views and solutions for a single problem
• Ability to work with people from different cultures, languages and religions.
• Ability to design, plan, organize and implement projects and tasks within the given time periods.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team and excellent computer skills.
• Confident, hardworking and committed to achieving excellence.
• Fast learner who is willing to learn new skill and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to manage different assignments and projects and setting priorities.
• Ability to keep a creative environment confidently and motivates, activate, and organize employees to meet high performance standards.
• I am positive, adaptive and flexible at the work place.