Executive Director - Health and Safety Workers Welfare - 50010079CM5

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Role overview

Construction safety oversight

• Integrate pre-construction safety requirements, Safety in Design outputs, and contractor pre-qualification conditions into construction execution.
• Oversee risk assessments for construction hazards, methodologies, and high-risk activities.
• Lead delivery-phase safety audits and inspections using contractor, vendor, and asset risk profiles.
• Ensure compliance with national and international safety standards, worker welfare standards, and KSA labour laws.

Inspections and corrective actions

• Lead HSWW inspections across active construction sites and verify safe work practices and risk controls.
• Oversee PPE procurement, distribution, compliance monitoring, and record-keeping.
• Track corrective actions from inspections, audits, incidents, simulations, and worker welfare grievances through closure.

Incident and crisis response

• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, classification, escalation, and lessons learned.
• Oversee corrective and preventive actions and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Lead crisis communication and regulatory reporting for serious incidents.
• Ensure emergency medical response capability across active delivery programs.

Performance and occupational health

• Validate HSWW KPIs, maintain performance dashboards, and consolidate safety data across construction programs.
• Define occupational health standards, health monitoring, exposure surveillance, and contractor compliance requirements.
• Report safety performance, incident trends, corrective actions, and compliance outcomes to leadership.

Required qualifications and experience

• Fluency in written and verbal English is required; Arabic proficiency is preferred.
• Candidates need advanced knowledge of construction safety standards, KSA labour laws, and occupational health frameworks.
• At least 18 years of relevant experience in large-scale international construction delivery or related fields is required, including leadership experience.
• Experience leading construction safety functions in complex and diverse construction environments is required.
• A bachelor’s degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, or a related field is required.

Preferred qualifications

• Professional certifications or memberships such as NEBOSH, IOSH, CMIOSH, or CIOB are preferred.
• A master’s degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, Occupational Health, or a related field is preferred.

Benefits

• An attractive benefits package is offered.

Work setting

• The role covers active construction sites and site-based safety oversight across delivery programs.