Job Title: Health, Safety, Environment, and Social (HSES) Officer
Organisation: Yalelo Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Yalelo (U) Limited is a tilapia fish farm that was established in Uganda in 2019. The farm is located in Butembe, Buikwe district on the shores of Lake Victoria. Yalelo Uganda is a subsidiary of First Wave Group B.V; a Dutch company with a portfolio of aquaculture related assets in Africa. First Wave Group owns and operates Yalelo Zambia, a pioneer of Aquaculture founded in 2011 that has grown quickly to become the leading fish farm in Zambia and among the largest aquaculture farms in Africa.
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced HSES Officer to join our team at our fish farm. The successful candidate will support the HSES Manager in implementing and maintaining a robust HSES management system to ensure the health and safety of employees, protect the environment, and safeguard the farm’s assets.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitoring HSE compliance with policies, laws, regulations, and best industry safety practices and procedures by regularly inspecting employees and operations, inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe
- Suggests solutions, improvements, and preventive measures for identifies non-compliance issues, promoting a positive HSE culture throughout the organization’ structures and operations.
- Conduct site inspections with the aim of identifying non-compliances and hazards and prepare inspection report with recommendations and collective action plans.
- Ensure all incidents, accidents and near misses are reported, investigated and corrective actions implemented effectively.
- Coordinates with all departments on the application of a ‘Permit To Work System’ for all activities requiring work permits.
- Conduct HSE Trainings, TBT and Inductions & ensure that the entire work force has the required PPE as appropriate to their workstations.
- Assist in Preparation of HSE budgets, set performance objectives (SMART) & ensure that they are achieved within a given period.
- Support other departments in preparation of Risk Assessments & Job safety analysis
- Assist in emergency response, conduct drills and provide first aid treatment
- Maintain the management system including Grievance register, legal compliance register, permit tracking system, action plan among others.
- Participate and undertake waste management and monitoring activities including effluent management and waste tracking.
- Support in planning and implementation of community development activities and CSR initiatives and ensure a good community relations culture.
- Support and participate in environmental and social impact assessments (internal brief) for any activities that require such under the national environmental and social impact assessment regulations of 2020.
- Support and coordinate the required annual NEMA Audit, and other external reporting requirements to DWRM, MAAIF and other reporting requirements.
- Execute any other duties as may be assigned by your immediate supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Degree in Environmental Science/ Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, any relevant additional post graduate qualification will be an added
- At least 5 years of experience in a regulatory authority, Construction management, extractives/natural resources, manufacturing
- NEBOSH certified and extensive knowledge of ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 management system implementation. preferred.
- Thorough knowledge of health, safety & Environmental laws and guidelines both national and regional
- Meticulous attention to detail to distinguish safety
- Ability to generate regular, detailed and analytical reports and assist the development of safety procedures
- Strong understanding of data analysis and risk
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
How to Apply:
Please send the application, CV & academic documents as one pdf document to: [email protected], clearly specifying the job position in the subject line.
Deadline: 28th November 2025
Note: Recruitment will be on rolling basis. Yalelo Uganda, We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to promoting gender diversity in our workforce. Qualified Females are strongly encouraged to apply. Yalelo Uganda doesn’t solicit any monies at any stage of the recruitment process.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60