EHS Lead - Grid Technologies

Siemens Energy, Inc.; Dammam; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global projects exposure

Safety training programs

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Job summary

Siemens Energy in Saudi Arabia seeks an EHS Lead for Grid Technologies Service to drive safety strategy across projects and field activities. You will oversee high-risk work, coach site teams, and advance the Zero Harm culture while ensuring regulatory compliance and training across offices, workshops, and sites.

The role requires an engineering/OSH/ENV science background with 8–10 years of EHS leadership experience in industrial settings and familiarity with Saudi regulations and international

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, or related field.
• NEBOSH/IOSH/OSHA/CSP certification preferred.
• 8–10 years of progressive EHS experience in industrial energy or related fields.
• Experience leading EHS teams across multiple sites.
• Strong knowledge of Saudi EHS regs and international standards.
• Experience in transmission, substations, GIS, transformers, or power generation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the EHS strategy for Grid Technologies Service Saudi Arabia, with objectives and KPIs.
• Own EHS execution across project sites and field activities nationwide, including high-risk work oversight.
• Ensure safe, compliant conditions across offices, workshops, and warehouses; manage emergency preparedness and health programs.
• Coach managers and field personnel to sustain a Zero Harm safety culture; run safety campaigns.
• Design and deliver EHS training and competency programs; ensure certifications.
• Lead risk assessments, incident investigations, and root cause analysis; manage a team of EHS professionals; report metrics and audits.

Skills

Incident investigation

Risk assessment

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

Safety training

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/OSH/Env Sci

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

As the EHS Lead for Grid Technologies Service in Saudi Arabia your day might take you from coaching your team of EHS professionals through an incident investigation, to auditing a modernization project site, to leading a toolbox talk that turns compliance into genuine ownership among field service crews. Every decision you make protects colleagues and contractors working on critical energy infrastructure, strengthens trust with customers who hold Siemens Energy to the highest safety standards, and advances the company's Zero Harm culture and broader mission of energy transformation.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Develop and lead the EHS strategy for GT Service Saudi Arabia, setting objectives, targets, and performance indicators while driving continuous improvement across all operations
• Own EHS execution across project sites and field service activities nationwide, including oversight of high-risk work such as electrical tasks, HV switching, lifting, confined space entry, and work at height
• Ensure safe, compliant working conditions across offices, workshops, and warehouses, managing emergency preparedness, fire protection, and occupational health programs
• Build and sustain a proactive Zero Harm safety culture by coaching managers and field personnel, running safety campaigns and behavioral safety initiatives, and embedding EHS into daily operations
• Design and deliver EHS training and competency programs, ensuring employees and contractors maintain required certifications and capability across all levels of the organization
• Lead risk assessments, incident investigations, and root cause analysis, and manage a team of three EHS professionals while reporting performance metrics and leading audits and regulatory inspections

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, or a related field
• Professional EHS certification such as NEBOSH, IOSH, OSHA, or CSP (preferred)
• 8–10 years of progressive EHS experience within industrial, energy, utilities, construction, or service operations, including exposure to high-risk field activities
• Demonstrated experience leading EHS teams and managing EHS performance across multiple sites or locations simultaneously
• Strong working knowledge of Saudi Arabian EHS regulations alongside international best practices and standards
• Prior experience in transmission, substations, GIS, transformers, power generation, or a comparable technical/industrial environment is strongly preferred

About The Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Opportunities to work with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform