Local Service Unit HSE Manager

Hitachi Energy; Eastern Province; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy seeks a Safety & Environment leader to advance safe working practices across the Eastern Province site. You will drive health, safety, and environmental programs, coach staff, and ensure compliance with local regulations and Hitachi Energy standards.

You will collaborate with management, supervisors, and contractors to manage risk, conduct audits, and roll out ISO45001 and ISO14001 aligned practices. English and Arabic proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in safety and environmental related positions.
• Excellent understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in English and Arabic language is required.

Responsibilities

• Communicate health and safety initiatives across the organization.
• Coach and support staff on health, safety, and environmental issues.
• Demonstrate commitment to health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Monitor compliance and handle nonconformances.
• Guide managers and employees on site to prevent accidents.
• Assist with risk assessments for workspaces, tasks, tools, and spaces.
• Roll out ISO45001/ISO14001 compliant safety management practices.
• Conduct safety and environmental audits and investigate incidents.
• Apply external standards within internal safety management systems.
• Provide competency-based safety training across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and procedures.
• Embody Hitachi Energy’s safety and integrity values.

Skills

Safety leadership

English language

Arabic language

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

CSP certification

Job description

Opportunity

Proactively lead to ensure safe working practices and programs are further developed and maintained throughout the local organization. Ensure accountability and high-level safety and environmental performance throughout the local organization. Coach and support people at all levels of the local organization to realize an exemplary safety culture as part of our total commitment to quality and reliability.

How you’ll make an impact

• Communicate all health and safety initiatives, processes, and procedures throughout the organization to ensure all people have a common and uniform understanding.
• Train, coach, and support the organization in health, safety, and environmental issues.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment towards health, safety, and environmental standards, guidelines, management systems, and procedures.
• Monitor compliance of health, safety, and environmental requirements and handle nonconformance issues according to relevant procedures.
• Assist and guide all levels of management, supervisors, and employees on site to implement accident prevention activities, and where necessary, provide interface to contractors and clients.
• Support the managers in the manufacturing facility and service sites in risk assessments of workspaces, work tasks, tools, and coordination of common spaces.
• Roll out, where necessary, initiate, and maintain quality input of a health and safety management system which meets the ISO45001 and ISO14001 specifications.
• Carry out safety and environmental audits, investigate accidents and root causes, introduce and supervise corrective actions.
• Monitor, communicate, and apply standards created and/or maintained by external bodies and integrate them within internal health and safety management systems.
• Provide guidance on competency‑based health, safety, and environmental training for all persons throughout the organization.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably Electrical.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in safety and environmental related positions.
• CSP certification is desirable.
• Excellent understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards in a manufacturing environment and the role a safety system plays in managing the overall risk profile of a site.
• Practical, hands‑on experience in developing and managing safety systems with the ability to dig into site‑specific details and develop solutions to complex safety issues.
• Strong knowledge about OSHA legislation for manufacturing sites.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Proficiency in both spoken and written English and Arabic language is required.