Job Title: Group Head, Asset Reliability & QHSE
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Role Overview
- We are seeking an experienced Group Head, Asset Reliability & QHSE to lead the Group-wide framework for asset reliability, operational risk, quality, health, safety, and environmental performance across its operations.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that critical assets are safe, reliable, available, and maintained to required standards while driving improvements in operational performance, quality compliance, safety outcomes, environmental management, and regulatory compliance.
- The role will focus on reducing unplanned downtime, repeat failures, major incidents, quality defects, environmental exposures, and maintenance-related losses across the Group.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement Group-wide standards and frameworks for asset reliability, integrity management, maintenance planning, inspection, condition monitoring, QHSE governance, and operational risk management.
- Monitor asset availability, downtime, maintenance costs, failure trends, reliability performance, and critical risks across subsidiaries.
- Lead root-cause investigations into major breakdowns, recurring failures, process-safety events, serious incidents, and production-impacting events, ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions are implemented and sustained.
- Drive reliability-centred maintenance, preventive and predictive maintenance, critical-spares planning, shutdown and turnaround improvement, and asset integrity initiatives.
- Review asset reliability and technical readiness for major CAPEX, expansion, commissioning, and operational projects.
- Establish and maintain Group quality-management standards, procedures, audits, and performance measures to ensure products, materials, and processes meet required specifications, customer expectations, and applicable standards.
- Lead corrective and preventive action processes for quality deviations, customer complaints, rejects, rework, and recurring defects while supporting ISO-aligned quality systems and continuous improvement.
- Develop and enforce Group HSE policies, life-saving rules, permit-to-work standards, contractor-safety controls, emergency-response requirements, and operational safety practices.
- Monitor safety performance, near misses, lost-time incidents, process-safety events, and corrective-action closure, while ensuring lessons from serious incidents are implemented across all subsidiaries.
- Promote a proactive safety culture through regular training, toolbox talks, safety audits, emergency drills, leadership inspections, and accountability for safe operational discipline.
- Ensure compliance with applicable environmental permits, emissions requirements, waste-management obligations, mining regulations, power-sector standards, and other statutory requirements.
- Monitor environmental performance, including emissions, effluent, waste, energy and water use, and environmental incidents, while driving practical initiatives to reduce environmental risk, resource consumption, and operational waste.
- Support environmental-impact assessments, regulatory inspections, sustainability reporting, and compliance improvement initiatives.
- Establish Group reliability and QHSE dashboards, audit calendars, reporting templates, compliance registers, and escalation protocols.
- Conduct periodic site audits and ensure timely closure of audit findings, incident actions, corrective measures, and improvement plans.
- Provide regular reports to Group Executive Management on asset reliability, safety, quality, environmental performance, key risks, and improvement priorities.
- Lead and develop Group reliability and QHSE teams while providing functional guidance, training, coaching, standardisation, and knowledge-sharing across subsidiary teams.
- Work closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, HR, Finance, Procurement, and Internal Audit to embed reliability, quality, safety, and environmental discipline into daily operations.
Key Performance Indicators
- Improvement in asset availability, uptime, MTBF, MTTR, and maintenance-plan compliance
- Reduction in unplanned downtime, repeat failures, maintenance costs, and maintenance-related losses
- Critical-spares availability and reliability of key assets
- Reduction in product rejects, rework, quality deviations, and customer complaints
- Improvement in safety performance, including lost-time incidents, recordable incidents, near-miss reporting, and process-safety outcomes
- Timely closure of incident investigations, audit findings, and corrective actions
- Environmental compliance, permit status, emissions, waste performance, and reduction in environmental incidents
- Improvement in ISO/QHSE audit performance and subsidiary compliance scores
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgical, Chemical, Mining, Industrial, or Environmental Engineering, or a related discipline. A Master’s degree in Engineering, HSE, Operations Management, Asset Management, or an MBA is an advantage.
- COREN registration is strongly preferred.
- NEBOSH IGC, ISO 45001/14001/9001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent QHSE certification is strongly preferred. Additional certifications in reliability, asset management, process safety, maintenance, or project management are an advantage.
- Minimum of 15 years’ relevant experience in heavy industry, including steel, mining, energy, oil and gas, cement, manufacturing, or similar asset-intensive operations.
- At least 5–7 years in a senior reliability, maintenance, asset integrity, QHSE, or operations excellence leadership role.
- Proven experience improving plant availability, maintenance performance, safety outcomes, quality compliance, and environmental performance.
- Strong knowledge of reliability-centred maintenance, root-cause analysis, risk assessment, incident investigation, corrective-action management, and ISO management systems.
- Experience working across multiple plants, sites, or subsidiaries is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in ERP/CMMS systems, maintenance-planning tools, and operational performance reporting is an advantage.
Core Competencies:
- Asset reliability, integrity, and maintenance excellence
- QHSE governance and regulatory compliance
- Process safety and operational risk management
- Root-cause analysis and corrective-action management
- Quality systems and continuous improvement
- Technical data analysis and performance reporting
- Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management
- Leadership, coaching, and capability building
- Sound judgement, integrity, and crisis-management capability
Application Closing Date
4th September, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: career.bridgemeadnghr@gmail.com using “Group Head, Asset Reliability & QHSE” as the subject of the email.
To apply for this job email your details to career.bridgemeadnghr@gmail.com