Senior HSE Engineer

About the Role

Bechtel Corporation is seeking a Senior HSE Engineer to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In this full-time position, the Senior HSE Engineer will integrate safety and health requirements into complex project planning, design, and operations to reduce the potential for adverse impacts. The role involves performing risk assessments, providing input on bid decisions, leading meetings and communications, and tracking and monitoring performance trends to enhance the quality of safety procedures and work processes.

Project Context: Expo 2030 Riyadh

This role is integral to the Expo 2030 Riyadh project, a global platform dedicated to promoting sustainable development, innovation, and transformative thinking. Bechtel will manage the extensive infrastructure program for the event, which includes early works, utilities, and publicly accessible spaces. Following the event, the site will transition into a mixed-use legacy development.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct and document daily inspections, ensuring every project site is visited at least once per shift, to verify the implementation of health and safety requirements by client contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and vendors.
• Raise observations from site visits through the Employer's online health and safety reporting systems.
• Participate in health and safety pre-start kick-off meetings with client contractors, adhering to the Expo Riyadh Construction Safety Manual.
• Perform daily verification of the suitability and ongoing availability of security, traffic management, logistics, and emergency arrangements, including these findings in daily inspection reports.
• Conduct daily follow-up on safety non-conformances to ensure timely rectification or escalation, and that appropriate controls are consistently maintained.
• Issue a suspension of work instruction under the contract in cases of a lack of safety control, imminent risk of injury, or continual failure to address unsafe acts/conditions, ensuring notification to the ESH Manager who will then inform ERC.
• Discuss the development and implementation of reward and recognition schemes with client contractors during weekly meetings.
• Conduct daily verification of compliance with the approved Traffic Management Plan and PAPI programs.
• Engage in monthly discussions with client contractors to ensure the production of a health and safety file as per Employer's requirements.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor of Engineering degree is required.
• Possession of relevant International Occupational Health and Safety qualifications.
• Between 5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to conduct daily verification of the suitability and ongoing availability of security, traffic management, logistics, and emergency arrangements.
• Capability to accurately include findings from verifications and inspections in daily reports.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.