Hazardous Materials

About DSS Sustainable Solutions Switzerland SA

DSS Sustainable Solutions Switzerland SA is a global consultancy that partners with organizations in high-risk and asset-intensive industries. The company focuses on solving complex operational challenges across safety, operational excellence, and sustainability, leveraging expertise rooted in DuPont’s industrial operations. This full-time role for a Hazardous Materials specialist is based in Riyadh.

Role Overview

DSS Sustainable Solutions Switzerland SA is developing a proposal for a client in Saudi Arabia to support the creation of a National Industrial Hazard Index (IHI). The IHI aims to provide a consistent methodology for measuring and classifying the inherent hazard level of factories across Saudi industrial cities. This initiative will combine multiple industrial hazard dimensions into a practical, evidence-based, and auditable framework, utilizing available information related to hazards, incidents, hazardous materials, occupancy, machinery, and factory characteristics. The IHI is intended to serve as a risk-based decision-making tool.

Key Responsibilities

As an Independent Industrial Hazard & Risk SME, you will provide expert challenge and validation during focused technical workshops with the dss+ project team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing expert challenge and validation during focused technical workshops with the dss+ project team.
• Reviewing the proposed Industrial Hazard Index through the lens of current industry practice, regulatory experience, and technical evidence.
• Helping to ensure that the resulting methodology is credible, practical, transparent, and suitable for application across a diverse industrial landscape.

Areas of Expertise

Depending on your background, you may contribute expertise across one or several of the following areas:

• Hazardous-material properties and inventories.
• Industrial process characteristics and operating conditions.
• Factors influencing the likelihood and potential severity of fires and explosions.
• Loss-of-containment and material-movement risks.
• Stored, mechanical, thermal, and electrical energy.
• Acute and chronic occupational exposure to hazards.
• Workforce and third-party exposure within industrial hazard footprints.
• Potential consequences extending beyond factory boundaries.

Candidate Profile and Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a recognized specialist with deep practical expertise in industrial hazards, process safety, fire and explosion risk, occupational hygiene, regulatory inspection, emergency preparedness, or a closely related discipline. You should possess independent judgment, strong technical credibility, and the confidence to constructively challenge proposed approaches. The ability to distinguish between theoretically robust methods and those that are practical across varied industrial environments is essential. Experience in industrial regulation or operations within Saudi Arabia, the GCC, or comparable international settings is beneficial but not required.

Candidates are likely to hold a relevant technical degree (*, engineering, chemistry, environmental science) and professional certifications in areas such as process safety, risk management, or occupational hygiene.

Required Capabilities

Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to:

• Apply deep technical expertise to complex industrial hazard and risk challenges.
• Provide independent and objective advice.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
• Work collaboratively with a diverse project team.