Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager, West

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Coverage: West & Central Africa

About the role

The Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manager will work on the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of initiatives aimed at promoting the health, safety, and wellbeing of Sun King staff, sales agents, installers, and subcontractors. The Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manager will work closely with cross functional teams to ensure compliance with legal requirements, foster a strong safety culture, and protect people, processes, and assets.

1. Monitoring and improvement of safety measures

2. Conduct regular field visits to interact with sales agents, inverter installers and Sun King's field based teams to assess safety risks, seek feedback, monitor adherence to health and safety processes, and identify opportunities for improvement.

3. Design and support the rollout of tailored health, safety, and wellbeing training for Sun King employees, sales agents, and installers, in partnership with Sun King's Training & Development team.
4. Analyze health and safety trends and emerging risks, and provide actionable insights to Sun King's management.

2. Oversight of health, safety, and security risks and prevention initiatives for field based teams

• Oversee Sun King's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program for sales agents and staff including distribution of PPE, tracking PPE utilization, collecting feedback from users of PPE, measuring impact, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor Sun King's emergency reporting tools, ensuring responsiveness, analyzing turnaround times and proposing improvements.

3. Compliance and regulatory oversight

• Conduct compliance reviews to ensure alignment with health and safety statutory requirements in each country, maintaining a live repository of regulatory requirements and ensuring local teams are updated on changes.

• Assist with due diligence evaluation of prospective partners and vendors, conducting periodic reporting or on site health & safety audits, as needed.

• Audits, inspections, and risk management

• Oversee the administration of health and safety audits across Sun King's offices, field sales activities, warehouses, and shops by working with a variety of cross functional teams. Track audit completion status, compile audit findings, and develop and track closure of correction action plans.

• Conduct comprehensive health and safety risk assessments across all aspects of Sun King's operations and ensure risk mitigation measures are in place.
  Participate in incident investigations and root cause analyses as required.

• Health and safety governance, capacity building and coordination

• Assist each country's Health and Safety Committee with the coordination and execution of planned programs.

• Maintain health and safety dashboards to track key performance indicators for warehouses, shops, field team activities, and overall health and safety performance.
• Coordinate staff and sales agent wellbeing by supporting initiatives around mental health, stress management, fatigue awareness, and wellness campaigns.
• Coordinate health and safety onboarding processes for new Sun King employees and third party contracted individuals including inverter installers.
• As in the health, safety & wellbeing documentation and process development including standard operating procedures, guidelines, and toolkits.

• Bachelor's degree/HND in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, or related field.
• 7 years experience in a health, safety, and wellbeing role, preferably in a field based work environment.
• Experience working with distributed teams across different regions; preference for candidates with multi-country experience.
• Knowledge of occupational health and safety laws, regulations, and standards (ISO 45001, NFPA, IFC or equivalent).
• Familiarity with PPE programs, risk assessments, health and safety audits, and emergency management frameworks.

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

Sun King is the world's leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via 'pay-as-you-go' purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.

Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.

From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King's products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.

Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King's workforce.