About the job

Vacancy Overview

Environmental Lead – Tanzania

Airswift is seeking an Environmental Lead to work on a 12 – months renewable assignment in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania with a major EPC Company.

Brief Project Overview

The EACOP Project (East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Project) is an EPcmC. 1,500km pipeline project across Uganda and Tanzania, with a Main Storage Terminal and Jetty in Tanzania.

Job Responsibilities

The Environmental Lead MST will report to the Environmental Methods Lead and will have the following responsibilities:

• Monitors and inspects contractors’ day to day construction activities to ensure all are performed in accordance with all project applicable permit conditions, environmental management condition and mitigation requirements.
• Monitors all MST project related facilities, camps, waste management areas etc
• Liaises daily with EPC Contractor’s to provide guidance, as required, with regard to the development of the MST specific management plans
• Liaises daily with EPC Contractor’s site personnel. Effectively provides guidance, as required, regarding compliance requirements and corrective actions.
• Liaises with the contractors’ environmental team to ensure on-going project compliance
• Ensures all required samplings/testing are done as required
• Issues non-compliance for the breaches in permit/mitigation requirements.
• Assists in the review and close out of rectifications arising from daily inspections, audits, or compliance review process.
• Provides and maintains daily inspection reports with photos.
• Liaises with immediate supervisor, highlighting areas of concern, NCRs, incidents, etc.

Job Qualifications

Position Specific:

• Environmental experience in supervision of industrial facilities.
• BSc or MSc is environmental science
• Experience with the environmental management in accordance with IFC PS
• Excellent English communication skills (oral and written)
• Ability to understand and explain all project environmental requirements
• Physical ability to work in the field and conduct inspection in difficult terrain
• Effective communication and interaction with construction crews in the field and management teams.
• Concise report writing on a daily basis.

Project General - Essential

• Extensive and proven experience in pipeline and associated facilities Management of Construction
• Staff management experience (knowledge transfer)
• Excellent communications skills
• Advanced written and spoken English
• Ability to use MS Office (word, excel, Outlook, Power point) competently
• Understanding of Time / Distance planning programs
• Competency in written/oral communication
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to travel as and when required
• High level of safety awareness

Project General - Desirable

• A strong communication, networking, collaboration, and well-developed team-working skills, especially in multi-discipline and multi-cultural teams.
• A full knowledge of project specific execution strategies, and the ability to develop them to meet challenging project objectives and deliverables.
• An ‘Incident Free’ mind-set, and be a role model for their project team (Direct/Indirect hires);
• A proven HSSE and QA/QC leadership in managing and delivering large complex onshore oil & gas projects.
• A full understanding of how all elements of the project scope integrate and interface with each other and are managed to successfully deliver the right project outcome - from construction, and through to commissioning and handover to operations.
• A high focus on identifying and delivering the identified deliverables, which meet project expectations from a quality and performance perspective, with minimal integration challenges to current operations.
• Excellent teamwork & skills being able to work with the various sub-teams to resolve issues and reach decisions that are in the best interests of the integrated project team.
• An ability to work effectively in a diverse, multidisciplinary team environment, including Interface management experience, within facilities, and across other functions.
• Strong Team Building, Development and Mentoring skills.

Essential

• Extensive and proven experience in pipeline and associated facilities Management of Construction
• Staff management experience (knowledge transfer)
• Excellent communications skills
• Advanced written and spoken English
• Ability to use MS Office (word, excel, Outlook, Power point) competently
• Understanding of Time / Distance planning programs
• Competency in written/oral communication
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to travel as and when required
• High level of safety awareness

Desirable

• A strong communication, networking, collaboration, and well-developed team-working skills, especially in multi-discipline and multi-cultural teams.
• A full knowledge of project specific execution strategies, and the ability to develop them to meet challenging project objectives and deliverables.
• An ‘Incident Free’ mind-set, and be a role model for their project team (Direct/Indirect hires);
• A proven HSSE and QA/QC leadership in managing and delivering large complex onshore oil & gas projects.
• A full understanding of how all elements of the project scope integrate and interface with each other and are managed to successfully deliver the right project outcome - from construction, and through to commissioning and handover to operations.
• A high focus on identifying and delivering the identified deliverables, which meet project expectations from a quality and performance perspective, with minimal integration challenges to current operations.
• Excellent teamwork & skills being able to work with the various sub-teams to resolve issues and reach decisions that are in the best interests of the integrated project team.
• An ability to work effectively in a diverse, multidisciplinary team environment, including Interface management experience, within facilities, and across other functions.
• Strong Team Building, Development and Mentoring skills.

Summary On Airswift

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 800 employees and 6,000 contractors operating in over 50 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.