HSE Director
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About the Role
Parsons is seeking an HSE Director to lead health, safety, environmental, and sustainability performance across a major airport infrastructure program. The role involves strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, construction safety, incident response, and stakeholder coordination.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the overall HSE strategy, governance framework, policies, procedures, and performance standards for the program
- Provide leadership and direction to HSE teams across multiple project packages and contractor environments
- Drive a proactive safety culture across contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with applicable aviation, construction safety, environmental, and local authority requirements
- Manage regulatory audits, inspections, permits, approvals, and authority engagements
- Oversee construction safety across airfield works, terminals, utilities, and supporting infrastructure
- Ensure effective safety controls for high risk activities including lifting, excavation, working at height, confined spaces, and live operations
- Review risk assessments, method statements, safety plans, and contractor HSE performance
- Oversee environmental compliance, sustainability performance, environmental management plans, and impact mitigation measures
- Lead investigations into major incidents, near misses, and high potential events, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Act as primary HSE interface with airport authorities, regulators, clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership
- Support emergency preparedness, crisis management planning, HSE workshops, safety forums, and coordination meetings
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Safety Engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum 25 years of experience in HSE leadership roles across major infrastructure, aviation, airport, or airfield development programs
- Proven experience within airport, airfield, EPC, PMC, or delivery partner environments
- Strong background in construction safety management across complex, multidisciplinary projects
- Deep knowledge of international HSE standards including ICAO, FAA, OSHA, NFPA, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001
- Experience managing large HSE teams and multi contractor project environments
- Strong capability in auditing, compliance management, reporting, incident investigation, and corrective action management
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and crisis management skills
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Job Description
- Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented HSE Director to join our team.
- In this role, you will provide strategic leadership and governance for health, safety, environmental, and sustainability performance across a major airport infrastructure program.
- You will oversee HSE strategy, regulatory compliance, construction safety, environmental management, incident response, stakeholder coordination, and performance reporting across the full project lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the overall HSE strategy, governance framework, policies, procedures, and performance standards for the program.
- Provide leadership and direction to HSE teams across multiple project packages and contractor environments.
- Drive a proactive safety culture across contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with applicable aviation, construction safety, environmental, and local authority requirements.
- Manage regulatory audits, inspections, permits, approvals, and authority engagements.
- Oversee construction safety across airfield works, terminals, utilities, and supporting infrastructure.
- Ensure effective safety controls are in place for high risk activities including lifting, excavation, working at height, confined spaces, and live operations.
- Review risk assessments, method statements, safety plans, and contractor HSE performance.
- Oversee environmental compliance, sustainability performance, environmental management plans, and impact mitigation measures.
- Lead investigations into major incidents, near misses, and high potential events, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions are implemented.
- Act as the primary HSE interface with airport authorities, regulators, clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership.
- Support emergency preparedness, crisis management planning, HSE workshops, safety forums, and coordination meetings.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Safety Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 25 years of experience in HSE leadership roles across major infrastructure, aviation, airport, or airfield development programs.
- Proven experience within airport, airfield, EPC, PMC, or delivery partner environments.
- Strong background in construction safety management across complex, multidisciplinary projects.
- Deep knowledge of international HSE standards including ICAO, FAA, OSHA, NFPA, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001.
- Experience managing large HSE teams and multi contractor project environments.
- Strong capability in auditing, compliance management, reporting, incident investigation, and corrective action management.
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and crisis management skills.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Master's Degree in Safety, Environmental Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Chartered status or equivalent HSE professional certification, such as NEBOSH IGC / IDIP, CSP, CIH, or CMIOSH.
- Experience on GCC airport megaprojects or complex aviation infrastructure programs.
- Background in ESG, sustainability reporting, carbon management, FIDIC based contracts, and digital HSE systems.
Competitive Benefit Offerings
- Financial Wellness: competitive pay and retirement plans.
- Work Life Harmony: paid time off and paid flexible holidays.
- Career Development: comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.
- Veteran Support: industry leading benefits including paid active duty military leave.
- Mind & Body: wellness program with weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays.
- Health: comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans.
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