Worker Welfare Officer
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About the Role
STRABAG seeks a Worker Welfare Officer in Abu Dhabi to support implementation and monitoring of worker welfare standards across project sites. The role involves conducting inspections, ensuring compliance with UAE Labour Law and MOHRE regulations, managing grievances, and maintaining records.
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Responsibilities
- Support the implementation and monitoring of worker welfare standards across project sites, labour accommodation, and worker facilities.
- Conduct regular welfare inspections covering accommodation, hygiene, food safety, transportation, recreation areas, and general living conditions.
- Ensure compliance with UAE Labour Law, MOHRE regulations, client requirements, and company welfare standards.
- Coordinate with client representatives during welfare inspections and audits, ensuring timely closure of observations and corrective actions.
- Manage worker grievances and welfare concerns, coordinating with HR, HSE, project teams, camp management, and subcontractors to resolve issues.
- Support worker inductions, welfare awareness programmes, engagement activities, and worker welfare forums.
- Maintain welfare records, inspection reports, grievance logs, audit documentation, and management reports.
- Promote a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for a multicultural workforce.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Social Work, Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related discipline
- 3 5 years of worker welfare, labour welfare, camp welfare, or employee relations experience within the UAE construction industry
- Experience working directly with blue collar and multicultural workforces across project sites and labour accommodation
- Experience conducting welfare inspections, supporting client audits, preparing reports, and monitoring corrective actions
- Working knowledge of UAE Labour Law, MOHRE regulations, labour accommodation standards, grievance procedures, and worker welfare requirements
- Able to prepare inspection reports, compliance trackers, basic data summaries, and management updates using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Fluency in English is required
- UAE Driving Licence is preferred
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Tasks
- Support the implementation and monitoring of worker welfare standards across project sites, labour accommodation, and worker facilities.
- Conduct regular welfare inspections covering accommodation, hygiene, food safety, transportation, recreation areas, and general living conditions.
- Ensure compliance with UAE Labour Law, MOHRE regulations, client requirements, and company welfare standards.
- Coordinate with client representatives during welfare inspections and audits, ensuring timely closure of observations and corrective actions.
- Manage worker grievances and welfare concerns, coordinating with HR, HSE, project teams, camp management, and subcontractors to resolve issues.
- Support worker inductions, welfare awareness programmes, engagement activities, and worker welfare forums.
- Maintain welfare records, inspection reports, grievance logs, audit documentation, and management reports.
- Promote a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for a multicultural workforce.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Social Work, Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 3 5 years of worker welfare, labour welfare, camp welfare, or employee relations experience within the UAE construction industry.
- Experience working directly with blue collar and multicultural workforces across project sites and labour accommodation.
- Experience conducting welfare inspections, supporting client audits, preparing reports, and monitoring corrective actions.
- Working knowledge of UAE Labour Law, MOHRE regulations, labour accommodation standards, grievance procedures, and worker welfare requirements.
- Able to prepare inspection reports, compliance trackers, basic data summaries, and management updates using Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience using document management, HRMS, or digital inspection and tracking systems is an advantage.
- Fluency in English is required; Hindi, Urdu, or Arabic language skills are an advantage.
- UAE Driving Licence is preferred, with the ability to visit project sites, labour accommodation, and worker facilities as required.
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