QHSE Manager📣 Job Ad

About SGS and the Role

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company, recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With over 89,000 employees and a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide, SGS is seeking a QHSE Manager to join its team in Jubail, Eastern, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role provides strategic and operational leadership to drive a proactive, risk-based Health & Safety culture across the country.

Purpose of the Role

The QHSE Manager is accountable for embedding effective risk management, strengthening operational discipline, and ensuring Health & Safety is integrated into all business activities to support sustainable and safe growth. The role acts as a trusted advisor to the Managing Director and leadership teams, influencing decision-making and ensuring strong governance, leadership accountability, and continuous improvement across all locations, aligned with SGS global standards and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership by translating global and regional H&S strategy into a clear and actionable country roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Drive a risk-based approach focusing on identification, assessment, and control of critical risks, ensuring the effectiveness of controls.
• Lead the development of a strong safety culture, reinforcing leadership behaviors, accountability, and employee engagement across all organizational levels.
• Ensure robust incident reporting, investigation, and learning processes, with a focus on root cause analysis and prevention of recurrence.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, training, and development of H&S personnel and operational leaders.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations and SGS standards, and support the integration of H&S into acquisitions, projects, and operational changes.
• Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of critical risk controls and trends in incident frequency, severity, and prevention indicators.
• Oversee the completion of audits and the closure of corrective actions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Health & Safety or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Health & Safety management, including leadership roles in complex or multi-site environments.
• Professional certification (*, NEBOSH, ISO 45001 Lead Auditor) is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, influence senior stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Risk Leadership: Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and manage critical risks using data-driven insights and proactive approaches.
• Influencing & Engagement: Proven capability to build trust, influence stakeholders at all levels, and integrate Health & Safety into business decision-making.
• Safety Culture Leadership: Drives behavioral change, ownership, and accountability, fostering a positive and proactive safety culture.
• Operational Excellence: Ensures consistent and effective implementation of the Health & Safety Management System with measurable performance outcomes.
• Team Leadership & Capability Building: Develops high-performing teams and builds capability through coaching, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Al Jubail, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.