Senior Engineer - Ind. Traffic Safety

About Emirates Global Aluminium

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry.  EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

JOB PURPOSE:
The Industrial Traffic Safety senior engineer is responsible for the independent design, auditing, and continuous improvement of all vehicular and pedestrian traffic systems covering all internal road networks and traffic interfaces (covered & uncovered roads) within EGA Abu Dhabi (Al Taweelah) & Dubai (Jebel Ali) operations. The primary purpose of this role is to eliminate or reduce the risk of vehicle–vehicle and vehicle–pedestrian interactions. By applying traffic impact principles to the floor, this role ensures that facility expansions, layout changes, and daily logistics flows maximize operational efficiency without compromising worker safety or violating EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) regulations. Establish and govern a standardized industrial traffic safety framework across all EGA sites, ensuring horizontal deployment of controls, designs, and lessons learned.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Plant Traffic & Flow Layout Design
•    Internal Routing & Mapping: Design and optimize indoor and outdoor traffic routing plans that cleanly separate heavy machinery, material handling equipment (MHE), and pedestrian walkways.
•    Expansion Impact Studies: Conduct "Internal Traffic Impact Studies" ahead of any plant expansions, new production line installations, or area re-layouts to predict and eliminate bottleneck hazards and new conflict points.
Risk Assessment & Conflict Analysis
•    Floor-Level Conflict Mapping: Map and analyze blind spots, high-traffic intersections, and loading dock zones where vehicles and pedestrians cross paths.
•    Near-Miss Data Analytics: Maintain and evaluate log data related to vehicular & pedestrian traffic alerts and surveillance cameras to proactively identify high-risk zones before an injury occurs.
Infrastructure & Technology Implementation
•    Zoning & Signage: Mandate and oversee the installation of physical traffic control infrastructure, including bollards, impact-resistant barriers, specialized floor striping, overhead convex mirrors, and digital warning signage.
•    Smart Safety Integration: Evaluate advanced safety tech, such as proximity warning sensors, pedestrian-detection cameras on industrial vehicles, automatic speed-limiting zones, and smart interlocking gates at pedestrian crossings.
Budgeting & Financial Management
•    OPEX Control: Develop and manage the annual Operational Expenditure (OPEX) budget allocated for traffic safety maintenance, including floor re-striping, replacement of safety signage, protective bollard repairs etc.
•    ROI Forecasting: Prepare cost-benefit analyses and Return on Investment (ROI) forecasts for traffic safety investments, demonstrating how reducing near-misses and optimizing internal flows directly mitigates financial losses from material damage and operational downtime.
CAPEX Project Management
•    Capital Planning: Author, justify, and submit Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) proposals for large-scale site traffic overhauls (e.g., implementing site-wide Industrial vehicle networks, installing electronic pedestrian-gate interlocking systems, or major outdoor parking lot/yard redesigns).
•    Project Execution: Act as the primary stakeholder or project manager for traffic-related CAPEX projects, overseeing contractors from engineering design through to final commissioning and safety sign-off.
External Liaison & TIS Coordination
•    TIS Consultant Management: Serve as the internal single point of contact (SPOC) for external Traffic Impact Study (TIS) consultants during major site expansions, new plant construction, or changes to municipal highway access points.
•    Internal Data Provision: Coordinate the collection of internal plant data (e.g., peak-hour freight truck volumes, shift-change worker commute data, delivery schedules) to supply external consultants with accurate inputs for their traffic simulation models.
•    Regulatory Alignment: Partner with the external TIS consultants to represent the facility in front of local municipal authorities, Department of Transportation (DOT) officials, and planning boards to secure building permits and right-of-way approvals as and when required. Be familiar with any other regulatory requirement if applicable.
Audits, Compliance & Training
•    Safety Audits: Conduct formal, routine Traffic Safety Audits across all shifts, ensuring compliance with OSHA, ISO 45001, and other corporate safety protocols.
•    Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Author plant-wide traffic rules (e.g., right-of-way rules, docking procedures, speed limits) and collaborate with HR/Training teams to embed these rules into employee and visitor inductions.

 AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:
•    Layout Approvals & Rejections: Provide mandatory sign-off on all proposed factory floor layouts, facility modifications, and new equipment installations regarding their spatial traffic impact.
•    Mandate Safety Infrastructure: Dictate the required placement and budget allocation for physical barriers, lane markings, and technology within the plant CAPEX projects.
•    Consultant Selection: Review bids, interview, and select preferred external TIS consulting firms and traffic-safety contractors for site projects.
•    Any decision that prevents the system to fail can be taken by the job holder, whilst remaining within the scope of their responsibility (e.g. “Stop-work authority for unsafe traffic layouts”, Authority to reject non-compliant CAPEX designs”.
•    The job holder works independently and keeps the Departmental Management updated and consults in decision making, financials, approvals, signing of contracts.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree in engineering/science or 
Minimum Experience:

•    5–8 years of experience in traffic management, with hands-on experience in the UAE. Must have a solid grasp of UAE traffic laws and local transport regulations
Technical Skills:

•    Risk Assessment Frameworks: Mastery of Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Hazard Identification methodologies applied to traffic environments.

•    Regulatory Knowledge: Thorough knowledge of Safety management systems, knowledge of auditing system design & implementation, international Health & safety standards and general knowledge of legal aspects in relation to traffic safety.

•    Root-Cause Analysis: A methodical mindset capable of looking past "human error" to diagnose systemic engineering flaws in a layout when traffic incidents occur.
•    Excellent interpersonal and customer focused skills. 
•    Excellent time management and priority setting skills.