HSE & Site Services Lead (SPA )📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Qiddiya | القدية is seeking an HSE & Site Services Lead (SPA) to coordinate health, safety, and environmental requirements across its Film Studio asset. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role supports safe activation, handover, and day-to-day operations, ensuring compliance with HSE procedures for contractors, employees, tenants, productions, and service providers.

Role Purpose and Context

The primary purpose of this role is to maintain a safe and production-ready operating environment within the Film Studio. This involves implementing and monitoring HSE policies, procedures, and statutory requirements, as well as coordinating safety readiness for various operational phases including commissioning, productions, and temporary installations. The Lead will also manage documentation and support incident response.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor HSE policies, procedures, site rules, statutory requirements, and operational safety standards across the Film Studio asset.
• Support safety readiness for activation, commissioning, handover, testing, workshops, productions, tenant operations, and temporary installations.
• Coordinate contractor inductions, permits to work, risk assessments, method statements, toolbox talks, and compliance documentation.
• Conduct site inspections, safety observations, audits, and walkthroughs across studios, workshops, backlots, offices, and operational areas.
• Maintain risk registers, incident logs, corrective action trackers, inspection records, and HSE documentation repositories.
• Support incident reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned implementation.
• Coordinate HSE requirements for productions, equipment movement, set builds, temporary structures, special effects, workshops, and high-risk activities.
• Monitor contractor and service provider compliance with site safety requirements and escalate non-compliance where required.
• Support emergency preparedness, evacuation drills, first-aid readiness, fire safety coordination, and response planning.
• Coordinate with Facilities, Security, Operations, Commercial, Procurement, and Corporate Enablement teams on safety dependencies and risk controls.
• Support development and implementation of HSE procedures, checklists, safety campaigns, and training materials.
• Review operational readiness plans and identify safety gaps before productions, tenant activity, or facility opening milestones.
• Prepare HSE reports, inspection summaries, incident dashboards, and compliance updates for management review.
• Support environmental controls, waste management coordination, housekeeping standards, and sustainability-related safety practices where applicable.
• Promote a proactive safety culture through communication, coaching, and visible site engagement.

Performance Indicators

• Number of reportable incidents and near misses.
• Corrective action closure rate.
• Inspection and audit completion rate.
• Permit-to-work compliance rate.
• Contractor induction completion rate.
• HSE documentation accuracy and timeliness.
• Emergency drill and safety training completion rate.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in relevant fields.
• Background in film studios, entertainment venues, event environments, hospitality assets, facilities operations, construction-to-operations handover, or operational activation environments.
• Experience supporting commissioning, operational activation, production safety, and temporary works is preferred.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within the Qiddiya Film Studio asset. The role requires coordination with various internal teams and external contractors to ensure a safe and compliant operational environment.