Executive Director - Health and Safety Workers Welfare - 50010079CM5

Role Overview

Executive Director - Health and Safety Workers Welfare at Qiddiya Investment Company, a PIF-backed giga project central to Saudi Vision 2030, located in Qiddiya City.

Company Overview

Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) is a PIF-backed giga project central to Saudi Vision 2030's goal of building a vibrant society, thriving economy, and ambitious nation. The company harnesses the power of Play to bring entertainment, sports, and culture to the forefront in Qiddiya City—a futuristic destination featuring world-class attractions, sports complexes, cultural landmarks, and residential areas.

Role Purpose

To lead the delivery of Health, Safety, and Worker Welfare (HSWW) across Qiddiya's active construction portfolio, ensuring effective implementation of HSWW standards, driving construction safety compliance and assurance, and overseeing incident response and worker welfare practices.

Key Responsibilities

Construction Safety Oversight and Risk Management

• Ensure health and safety requirements established during pre-construction phase, including Safety in Design outputs and contractor pre-qualification conditions, are actively integrated into construction execution activities across all active delivery programs.
• Direct site teams and contractors to address identified risks before and during construction, in alignment with enterprise HSWW standards.
• Oversee health and safety risk assessments for construction execution activities across all active programs.
• Direct assessment of site-specific hazards, construction methodologies, and project risk profiles to ensure appropriate controls are in place before high-risk activities initiate.
• Lead execution of delivery-phase safety audits and inspections in alignment with the enterprise assurance framework.
• Direct selective audits based on contractor and vendor risk profiles and the safety sensitivity of assets being delivered.
• Identify non-conformances and escalate findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with applicable national and international safety standards, worker welfare standards, and KSA labour laws across all delivery activities.
• Direct regular compliance audits in alignment with the enterprise standardized audit approach.
• Ensure corrective action is taken where deviations are identified.

Site Inspection, Personal Protective Equipment, and Corrective Action Management

• Lead the delivery HSWW inspection program across all active construction sites.
• Direct regular inspections of workplace conditions, risk mitigation measure effectiveness, and adherence to safe work practices.
• Verify that enterprise HSWW standards are consistently applied across all contractors and delivery partners.
• Oversee the PPE program across all active delivery programs, including management of PPE procurement, distribution, compliance monitoring, and record-keeping.
• Ensure the construction workforce is protected across all site activities at all times.
• Monitor corrective actions arising from site inspections, audits, incidents, safety simulations, and worker welfare grievances.
• Ensure all identified actions are assigned, progressed, and closed out within required timeframes.
• Prevent recurrence and demonstrate continuous safety improvement.

Incident Investigation and Crisis Response

• Lead investigation of health and safety incidents involving on-site workers, adhering to the enterprise incident investigation hierarchy.
• Direct root cause analysis, incident classification, escalation measures, and development of lessons learned for site-level incidents.
• Oversee implementation of corrective and preventive actions arising from incident investigations.
• Ensure findings are communicated to relevant stakeholders.
• Escalate lessons to relevant stakeholders for organization-wide dissemination.
• Lead site-based crisis communication and coordinate regulatory reporting in the event of serious incidents.
• Ensure internal leadership, government authorities, and relevant regulatory bodies are informed accurately and in a timely manner in compliance with applicable reporting obligations.
• Ensure provision of emergency medical response capability for construction-related incidents across all active delivery programs.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders on medical services coverage.
• Escalate any gaps in emergency response readiness to ensure workforce protection.

Delivery Safety Performance Monitoring and Occupational Health

• Validate delivery HSWW key performance indicators and maintain performance dashboards.
• Consolidate safety data across all active construction programs.
• Feed accurate and timely performance information into the enterprise centralized reporting framework to support safety decision-making.
• Define and maintain occupational health standards and guidelines applicable to Qiddiya's active delivery programs.
• Ensure health monitoring, exposure surveillance, and occupational health compliance requirements are embedded within contractor obligations.
• Ensure occupational health requirements are consistently applied across all active construction sites.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to ensure delivery safety performance data, incident trends, corrective action status, and compliance outcomes are accurately reported.
• Feed information into the HSWW Project Control Group and leadership reporting cycles on a regular basis.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 18 years of experience in health, safety, and worker welfare in large-scale international construction delivery projects, or related fields, including relevant years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience leading construction delivery safety functions within complex and diverse construction environments, including on-site safety oversight and risk assessment, compliance audit and inspection, PPE management, incident investigation and root cause analysis, corrective action management, crisis communication, occupational health standards application, and safety performance.
• Bachelor's degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, or a related field (required).
• Master's degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, Occupational Health, or a related field (preferred).
• Professional certifications or memberships with recognized health, safety, construction, or occupational health institutes, including NEBOSH, IOSH, CMIOSH, or CIOB (preferred).

Skills & Competencies

• Fluency in written and verbal English, with proficiency in Arabic preferred.
• Interpret complex information and analysis to guide functional strategy, inform decision-making, and address ambiguity within the scope of the function.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, facilitating cross-functional collaboration and ensuring alignment on priorities and initiatives.
• Lead teams to deliver high-quality work, promoting accountability, performance management, and continuous improvement.
• Advanced knowledge of national and international construction safety standards, KSA labour laws, and occupational health frameworks applicable to active construction programs.
• Deep technical expertise in construction delivery safety management, encompassing site safety oversight, risk assessment, audit and inspection, PPE governance, and incident investigation.
• Strong incident governance and crisis management capabilities, ensuring significant safety events are appropriately responded to, investigated, and addressed to protect people, maintain compliance, and strengthen organizational resilience.

Additional Information

• Attractive benefits package.