Senior Health Safety &Worker Welfare Manager - City Operations Field Safety Unit
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About the Role
Qiddiya Investment Company seeks a Senior HS&WW Manager to lead health, safety, and worker welfare across city operations and public realm activities. The role involves field assurance, contractor oversight, incident management, and driving a proactive safety culture in public-facing environments.
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Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of HS&WW requirements across city operations and public realm activities
- Establish and oversee field assurance activities including inspections, verifications, audits, and leadership safety tours
- Oversee high risk city operations activities and ensure critical risks are identified, assessed, controlled, and escalated
- Lead HS&WW oversight of contractors and subcontractors delivering city operations and public realm services
- Lead oversight of worker welfare standards including welfare facilities, rest arrangements, hydration, heat stress controls, and fair treatment
- Lead or oversee response to HS&WW incidents, significant near misses, and unsafe occurrences
- Oversee emergency preparedness arrangements for city operations
- Oversee collection, accuracy, and analysis of HS&WW data and develop management reporting
- Lead, coach, and develop HS&WW team members and field safety personnel
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, or related technical discipline
- Recognised professional HS&WW or safety certification
- Significant experience in HS&WW leadership roles within city operations, public realm, municipal services, transport, utilities, or other public facing field environments
- Strong knowledge of control of work, contractor safety management, public interface risk management, incident investigation, worker welfare, emergency preparedness, and operational assurance
- Demonstrated leadership capability in managing teams, influencing stakeholders, and driving measurable HS&WW performance improvement
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Role Purpose
- The HS&WW Manager / Senior Manager is responsible for leadership, governance, and operational oversight of Health, Safety and Worker Welfare across city operations and public realm activities.
- The role ensures HS&WW standards, controls, and assurance processes are embedded across front line service delivery and consistently applied in public facing environments.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of HS&WW requirements across city operations and public realm activities.
- Establish and oversee field assurance activities including inspections, verifications, audits, and leadership safety tours.
- Oversee high risk city operations activities and ensure critical risks are controlled.
- Oversee HS&WW controls at city operations interfaces involving residents, visitors, contractors, and road users.
- Lead HS&WW oversight of contractors and subcontractors.
- Lead oversight of worker welfare standards.
- Lead or oversee response to HS&WW incidents.
- Oversee emergency preparedness arrangements.
- Oversee collection, analysis, and reporting of HS&WW data.
- Lead, coach, and develop HS&WW team members.
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, or related technical discipline; postgraduate qualification advantageous.
- Recognised professional HS&WW or safety certification.
- Significant experience in HS&WW leadership roles within city operations, public realm, municipal services, transport, utilities, or other public facing field environments.
- Strong knowledge of control of work, contractor safety management, public interface risk management, incident investigation, worker welfare, emergency preparedness, and operational assurance.
- Demonstrated leadership capability in managing teams, influencing stakeholders, and driving measurable HS&WW performance improvement.
Authority & Decision Rights
- Authority to stop unsafe work and require escalation where critical HS&WW risks or worker welfare concerns are identified.
- Authority to direct corrective actions, raise non conformances, and recommend suspension or restriction of activities.
- Authority to escalate significant HS&WW issues, contractor performance concerns, and strategic recommendations.
Key Relationships
- Director / Head of HS&WW – City Operations
- City Operations Directors, Public Realm Managers, and Field Delivery Teams
- Contractors, Subcontractors, and Service Providers
- Security, Traffic Management, Emergency Response, Assurance, and Risk Functions
- Municipal, regulatory, and enterprise HS&WW stakeholders
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