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About the Role

Almarai is seeking a Fire & Safety Officer to join their team in Hail. This full-time position is responsible for overseeing the safety of all personnel, contractors, and visitors across all Hail site locations and accommodations. The role requires a proactive approach to identifying and reporting potential hazards to ensure the minimization of risks associated with fire, smoke, and water damage to company resources.

Key Responsibilities

The Fire & Safety Officer will be tasked with:

• Reporting any unsafe or defective equipment, practices, acts, or omissions to functional management.
• Ensuring immediate corrective actions are implemented to eliminate or minimize risks.
• Protecting Almarai resources, including personnel, buildings, plant & equipment, product & raw materials, and information systems.
• Conducting fire drills and providing fire prevention training.
• Performing fire inspections and maintenance.
• Investigating fire accidents and conducting fire risk assessments and management.
• Managing subordinates and planning their work.
• Handling incident and accident reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Membership in IOSHE and ISO 9001:2008 certified Lead Auditor qualification.
• Between 5 to 10 years of relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in a multi-cultural workforce organization, with specific experience handling fire detection and suppression equipment.
• 3 to 5 years of previous experience in fire management is essential.
• Previous experience as a trained fire-fighter with either a Civil Fire Brigade or a large multi-national company fire team is highly desirable.

Required Skills and Competencies

The role requires a strong set of skills and competencies, including:

• Proficiency in fire detection and fire suppression equipment.
• Supervisory experience.
• Work planning for subordinates.
• Incident / Accident reporting.
• Fire fighting skills.
• Conducting fire drills.
• Conducting fire prevention training.
• Fire inspection and maintenance.
• Fire accident investigation.
• Fire risk assessment and risk management.
• Exposure to computer and SAP environments.
• Excellent spoken and written English and Arabic communication skills.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Hail.