Senior Project SHE Executive: Safety & Environment Leader

Nestle; Karacabey; On-site; TRY 450,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé in Karacabey (Bursa) seeks a Senior Project SHE Executive to lead safety, health and environmental aspects across project lifecycles from design to commissioning. You will ensure governance, risk assessments and compliance with Nestlé requirements, while coordinating across contractors and sites.

You will drive incident investigations, manage KPIs, and support handover activities (FAT/SAT/PSSR) with a focus on safety leadership, environmental compliance and sustainable engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in SHE, Engineering or Project Management, including 5 years in major investment, construction or industrial installation projects.
• Strong experience in SHE leadership within complex construction and commissioning environments, including contractor and subcontractor safety management.
• Experience in machinery safety, commissioning risk, FAT, SAT, PSSR and operational handover processes.
• Strong incident investigation, root-cause analysis and risk management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, engineering teams and contractors, challenge unsafe decisions and drive timely action closure in a multicultural project environment.
• Professional working proficiency in English and the local language.
• Availability to work predominantly on site and to support critical construction, installation and commissioning activities outside standard hours when required
• Preferred: NEBOSH, IOSH or equivalent qualifications; ISO 45001 / ISO 14001 Lead Auditor certification; or relevant machinery safety, HAZOP, construction safety or project management credentials.

Responsibilities

• Lead SHE activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring governance, planning and compliance with Nestlé SHE and Engineering requirements.
• Integrate SHE into project design and execution, including risk assessments, machinery safety reviews, HAZID and HAZOP where applicable.
• Define and oversee contractor and subcontractor SHE requirements, including prequalification, onboarding, permit-to-work processes, inspections, audits and performance monitoring.
• Ensure safe construction and installation activities, with a strong focus on high-risk work, emergency preparedness and effective risk controls.
• Maintain the Project SHE Risk Register, monitor critical actions and support MOC activities related to design, equipment and project execution.
• Establish and track leading and lagging Project SHE KPIs, provide regular reporting to project governance forums, and escalate significant risks, overdue actions and contractor performance gaps.
• Lead the reporting and investigation of incidents, near misses and environmental events, ensuring effective root-cause analysis, corrective actions and sharing of lessons learned.
• Ensure SHE requirements are met during installation, commissioning and handover, including FAT, SAT and PSSR activities.
• Promote strong safety leadership, environmental compliance and sustainable engineering practices across project and contractor teams.
• Embed safety-by-design principles and facilitate constructability, maintainability and operability reviews to eliminate or reduce risks before construction and commissioning.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Turkish SHE legislation, permits and statutory requirements, including environmental, waste-management and occupational health obligations relevant to the project.

Job description

Nestlé in Karacabey (Bursa) seeks a Senior Project SHE Executive to lead safety, health and environmental aspects across project lifecycles from design to commissioning. You will ensure governance, risk assessments and compliance with Nestlé requirements, while coordinating across contractors and sites.

You will drive incident investigations, manage KPIs, and support handover activities (FAT/SAT/PSSR) with a focus on safety leadership, environmental compliance and sustainable engineering