EHS Specialist – Middle East, Africa and Turkey – Dubai, UAE

What to Expect

Tesla is seeking an ambitious Associate EHS Specialist to support our growing network of Tesla Sales, Services, Deliveries and Body shops in, predominantly Middle-East, & Turkey with potential expansion to South Europe and Africa.

The EHS Specialist is based in Dubai, UAE and reports to the EHS Regional Leader; Position will require regional and international travel, within Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Turkey. The role requires to adapt to market expansion needs as the business is growing.

You will use human and organizational principles to drive ownership of safety, health, and environmental impacts, with a focus on engagement, learning from events, training, and a systems-level problem solving.

The focus is achieving compliance and risk control within the company’s and regulatory agencies’ standards in environmental, health and safety. The ideal candidate must work well on both self-initiated projects and those driven by stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze incident trends and use risk-assessment methods to identify continuous improvement projects that reduce injury, illness, and environmental impact events.
• Interface with local regulatory agencies on permitting, reporting and related issues.
• Be a visible model in the field and teach, train and coach business teams and support staff on fundamental EHS concepts and principles to reduce risk, and influence, inspire and empower business teams and staff to minimize the risk per our Tesla EHS vision, values, and principles.
• Develop and maintain a partnership with and serve as a key advisor on EHS matters to Tesla operations leaders and stakeholders, associates, EHS members, and contracting partners.
• Conduct proactive and zero-blame, learning-focused field observations to verify that work in progress meets EHS goals and document findings.
• Identify operational gaps and creative solution facilitation, including identifying key stakeholders and driving innovative EHS solutions with cross-functional teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Safety, Environmental Health or Industrial Hygiene;
• Several years’ experience in environmental, health and safety;
• Experienced working as locally based EHS Specialist in UAE, Qatar or Saudi-Arabia.
• Knowledge of Middle-Eastern and / or European and global work regulation, and requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal language skills in English;
• Proactive as well as detail and result oriented with strong desire to succeed;
• Strong interpersonal, communicative and stakeholder relationship skills; the ability to positively interact with the full range of senior business management and regulators, frontline workers and 3rd party.
• Ability to prioritize and support multiple departments; 
• Have great attention to detail, problem-solving skills, multi-task, prioritizing, and working in a highly fast-paced environment, and a demonstrated ability to perform duties independently and remotely with minimal supervision.
• Ideally hold a valid driver’s license
• Ideally have English and Arabic language skills, with the ability to communicate in both at a professional level. Turkish language skill is an additional preference.
• Flexible in time management and willingness to travel (up to 50% of the time) in the area 

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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