Senior Health & Safety Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Mace Group is seeking a Senior Health & Safety Manager to join a significant program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is integral to a large-scale, mixed-use development project encompassing sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. Mace is a delivery partner on this program, requiring experienced professionals to lead integrated teams through all project phases.

Project Context and Approach

This project represents one of the largest initiatives in Saudi Arabia. Mace champions a collaborative, solutions-focused approach to safety management, ensuring alignment between design, construction, and operational safety requirements. The company's values emphasize safety first, client focus, integrity, and creating opportunities for its people to excel. Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates, encouraging those who may not meet every criterion to still apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the development and implementation of the project HSE strategy during the design phase.
• Review design proposals to identify and mitigate health, safety, and buildability risks through methods like design risk reviews, HAZID, and HAZOP.
• Ensure HSE considerations are integrated into construction planning, logistics strategies, temporary works, and sequencing.
• Contribute to pre-construction planning, risk workshops, and constructability reviews.
• Serve as the primary HSE oversight lead during site mobilization and construction.
• Conduct regular site inspections, audits, and safety walks to monitor compliance.
• Monitor the HSE performance of contractors and subcontractors across all work fronts.
• Identify unsafe practices, trends, and risks, ensuring timely escalation and corrective actions.
• Support the implementation of improvement and recovery actions when performance falls below expectations.
• Promote a proactive, risk-based approach to HSE throughout the project.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree qualification in Health & Safety, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Chartered or professional HSE qualification (*, NEBOSH, IOSH, or equivalent).
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in construction HSE roles on major projects.
• Proven experience across design and build projects, including pre-construction and construction phases, and major commercial/mixed-use developments.
• Experience within delivery partner or PMC environments is preferred.
• Must meet the necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and possess relevant work experience on high-value projects/programs for a project management consultancy business, as required for immigration and client approval.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mace is open to discussing flexible working options where suitable within the role.