مستشار إدارة السلامة والصحة المهنية

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead occupational safety and health oversight across all assigned sites.
• Develop and maintain the program’s OSH management framework, policies and procedures.
• Establish annual OSH objectives, plans, KPIs and improvement priorities.
• Ensure compliance with Saudi legislation, Client requirements and applicable international standards.
• Incorporate OSH requirements into project scopes, tender documents and O&M contracts.
• Review contractors’ safety plans, procedures, risk assessments and method statements.
• Evaluate contractors’ safety staffing, competency, training and mobilization arrangements.
• Monitor contractor compliance with contractual OSH requirements and approved plans.
• Conduct planned and unannounced site inspections, audits and management walkdowns.
• Inspect work activities, plant, tools, lifting equipment, access systems and personal protective equipment.
• Monitor high-risk activities, including confined-space entry, working at height, lifting, excavation, electrical isolation, hot work, diving and work near water.
• Verify implementation of permit-to-work, lockout/tagout and safe-isolation procedures.
• Ensure task-specific risk assessments and job safety analyses are completed and communicated.
• Stop or recommend stopping any activity presenting an immediate risk to people, assets or the environment.
• Identify unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and systemic compliance failures.
• Issue safety observations and ensure corrective actions are assigned, tracked and closed.
• Lead or support investigations into incidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences.
• Apply root-cause analysis and develop corrective and preventive recommendations.
• Monitor incident trends and identify recurring risks requiring management intervention.
• Develop and maintain emergency-response plans for dam and O&M activities.
• Coordinate emergency drills covering flooding, fire, rescue, confined spaces, electrical events and equipment failures.
• Verify the readiness of emergency equipment, first-aid facilities, communications and response teams.
• Develop safety-awareness programs, campaigns, toolbox-talk materials and workshops.
• Deliver or oversee OSH induction and training for employees, contractors and site personnel.
• Assess training effectiveness and identify additional competency requirements.
• Advise project and O&M teams on occupational health risks, including heat stress, noise, dust, chemicals, ergonomics and fatigue.
• Monitor occupational-health controls, welfare facilities and medical-emergency arrangements.
• Coordinate with industrial security, environmental, quality, engineering and operational teams.
• Lead periodic contractor safety-performance reviews.
• Establish and monitor leading and lagging OSH indicators.
• Benchmark program performance against recognized industry practice.
• Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual and technical reports as required by the assignment.
• Present OSH performance, critical risks, incidents and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
• Attend meetings, inspections and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
• Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, Client procedures and quality requirements.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering or an equivalent relevant discipline from a recognized university.
• ISO 45001, NEBOSH, OSHA or an equivalent recognized professional safety qualification.
• Minimum 16 years of professional experience in occupational safety, health or industrial security.
• At least 8 years of experience managing a professional safety team in Saudi Arabia.
• Demonstrated experience leading OSH governance across multiple projects or operational sites.
• Strong experience auditing contractors and monitoring contractual safety compliance.
• Practical knowledge of construction, maintenance and operational hazards.
• Experience reviewing safety plans, risk assessments, method statements and permit-to-work arrangements.
• Demonstrated experience investigating incidents and developing corrective and preventive actions.