Safety Specialist

Role Overview

Safety Specialist at KONE, based in Riyadh.

Company Overview

KONE is certified as a Top Employer and dedicated to fostering a great work culture with excellent people practices. Safety is an integral part of KONE's way of work and a cornerstone of its culture. The company is committed to collaboration, diversity, growth, wellbeing, sustainability, ethical business practices, and employee engagement.

Role Purpose

To build and proactively promote KONE Safety Culture by implementing and maintaining the safety management system, managing safety risks, ensuring safety assurance and compliance, and developing safety competencies across the unit.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Policy and Objectives

• Support the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of KONE safety management system including worker, user, and third-party safety.
• Cultivate an understanding and actively caring culture for safety and act as a role model.
• Compile, maintain, and improve safety documentation together with the unit safety team.
• Actively participate in and contribute to unit safety committee and other safety forums.
• Provide professional advice and support to the unit on matters affecting safety.
• Plan, participate in, and implement projects and activities to improve safety.
• Work closely with customers, partners, and KONE subcontractors.
• Support the development, review, and exercise of crisis and emergency response plans.

Safety Risk Management

• Monitor and develop safety risk management processes, tools, and practices.
• Support safety-related change management projects and initiatives.

Safety Assurance

• Collect, measure, and ensure accuracy of leading and lagging safety data and report performance.
• Monitor legal and business environment development in safety and identify and propose actions.
• Perform safety audits regularly to verify compliance, identify uncontrolled risks, and identify deviations.
• Assist line management in safety audits and visits and support audit process improvement.
• Analyze and investigate incidents and support investigation process improvement.
• Manage corrective and preventive actions for continual improvement.

Safety Promotion

• Develop own competencies as a safety specialist in cooperation with the manager.
• Support the training and development of others' safety competences in the unit.
• Proactively communicate safety information including investigation outcomes and best practices.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in safety in elevators, construction, or related industries.
• NEBOSH and IOSH certificates mandatory.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communication skills.
• Training and organizational skills.
• Excellent English and Arabic language skills.
• Passionate about safety.

Additional Information

• KONE offers a range of experiences and opportunities to help achieve career and personal goals and enable a healthy and balanced life.