Director Health Safety and Worker Welfare Operations

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Director - Health, Safety and Worker Welfare Operations to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role involves leading the development and implementation of health, safety, environmental, and worker welfare governance across City Operations, translating enterprise requirements into operational standards and assurance activities.

Role Overview

The Director will oversee compliance, audits, incident learning, and corrective actions within City Operations. This includes supporting the City Command Unit during incidents and ensuring operational readiness and safe transition of assets into live operations. The role requires a focus on establishing and maintaining governance frameworks, ensuring operational compliance, and managing worker welfare and environmental standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of City Operations health, safety, and worker welfare governance, translating Strategic Delivery Unit (SDU) policies and legal requirements into operational procedures.
• Establish minimum requirements and contractual schedules for health, safety, and worker welfare, ensuring service providers and contractors understand performance standards.
• Direct a risk-based assurance program across City Operations-managed assets, public realm, and operational services, including compliance reviews, inspections, and audits.
• Monitor contractor, operator, and service-provider compliance, directing corrective actions through relevant contract and service owners.
• Oversee worker welfare conditions for employees and contracted workforces within City Operations, establishing and monitoring welfare requirements.
• Oversee environmental compliance across City Operations-managed assets, focusing on harm prevention and adherence to approved environmental management plans.
• Provide health, safety, environmental, and worker welfare expertise to the City Command Unit during incidents, crises, and emergency exercises.
• Define health, safety, environmental, and worker welfare requirements for new assets and services, engaging with delivery teams from design through handover.
• Act as the City Operations focal point for health, safety, environmental, and worker welfare matters with SDU, City Assets Management, and other stakeholders.
• Lead the development of the Health, Safety, and Worker Welfare team and establish dashboards for performance monitoring and continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience of 10+ years leading health, safety, and worker welfare governance and assurance in complex operational, infrastructure, development, or asset environments.
• Experience in establishing standards and contractual requirements, overseeing contractor compliance, and leading audits, inspections, investigations, and corrective actions.
• Proven ability to support asset readiness and handover, advise on incident and crisis response, and coordinate with delivery teams, asset owners, regulators, and public authorities.
• Experience across the asset lifecycle and in the Middle East is preferred.

Work Environment

This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates on a full-time basis. The successful candidate will work within a dynamic environment, contributing to the establishment and expansion of Qiddiya's City Operations.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply for this position.