Director, Environment Health and Safety

3 weeks ago


Sharjah, United Arab Emirates WSP in the Middle East Full time
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The Global Director of Safety is a senior leadership role on the Global HSEQ Team.

The Director, Safety provides support on strategies, policies, programs, standards and plans that drive a Safety excellence culture and brand, positioning the company as a leader in HSE with employees and customers.

This position plays a significant role in developing and building commitment, awareness and competencies within the business and its people, resulting in the achievement of Global HSEQ strategies and plans.

This role is accountable to position the business with global enterprise initiatives of HSEQ standards and ensure best practice adoption which continually improves HSE performance as part of good business practice.

Your new role, what's involved

  • Develop Global HSEQ policies, programs, processes, standards and plans.
  • Oversee and support the alignment of the Global WSP HSEQ Programs with regional and country level programs & systems.
  • Lead the Global Safety group and provide guidance and mentorship to direct reports.
  • Ensure all elements of the Global platforms encompass best practices, industry and global standards and trends.
  • Successfully lead and drive an Safety excellence culture at all levels.
  • Provide oversight and leadership to key competency development of HSEQ priorities.
  • Provide HSEQ leadership and expertise to the Global leadership team & HSEQ Leads.
  • Remain current with new and changing HSEQ regulatory/legislative requirements and emerging issues/trends, while initiating action to ensure programs, policies and practices are compliant.
  • Represent the Global HSE Team within the industry, customers and legislative agencies to effectively promote a safety and excellence brand.

Integration and Innovation of HSE Teams, Programs, Processes and Standards

  • Champion a HSEQ focused work environment through safety accountabilities and performance targets for leaders and employees to model the expected outcomes and results and sustain outcomes.
  • Provide people leadership to the HSEQ team to steer the change efforts and assimilation into one organization and guide HSEQ leaders through effective coaching, influencing and mentoring efforts.
  • Lead and oversee the review of HSE policies, programs and practices with the goal of streamlining and creating efficiencies to ensure consistency and effectiveness.

Develop and Provide Oversight to HSE Competency Development

  • Lead HSE competency growth by developing key competencies required for various levels of the organization which ensure alignment of behaviors with expectations and goals.
  • Create and set expectations and requirements for continuous HSE performance through active performance management and stewardship.
  • Build a disciplined continuous improvement approach through gap assessments.
  • Develop pro‐active effective solution plans with appropriate measures, e.g. competencies, Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), system and technology enhancements, HSE programs and training platform enhancements.
  • Enhance effective audit programs designed to objectively evaluate safety performance.
  • Ensure preparedness for emergencies through processes, structure and resources to sustain effective emergency management.

People Leadership

  • Provide strong leadership and effective mentorship, coaching, and guidance to the HSEQ leaders and teams.
  • Model effective change management sponsorship, influence, and principles for successful and sustained integration and cultural adoption.
  • Be responsible for aspects of people management including but not limited to: recruitment, compensation, succession, performance management, talent, and leadership development.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

  • An undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
  • Professional Safety Designation (CRSP, CSP, CMIOSH)
  • Minimum 20 years of experience out of 10 years in a leadership position in Safety.
  • Proven Health and Safety leadership track record and reputation.
  • Expertise in developing, implementing and managing H&S portfolios.
  • Comprehensive knowledge and expertise of H&S legislation, occupational H&S compliance requirements and regulatory structure.
  • Expertise and knowledge of best in class health and safety programs, standards, processes and requirements, risk assessment processes and techniques and training in hazard recognition, assessment and control.
  • Incident investigation skills and training as well as emergency management processes, requirements and structure including auditing knowledge.
  • Strong people leadership capabilities with effective change management experience and demonstrated ability to lead and influence cultural and organizational transformation.
  • Ability to quickly establish credibility and build effective relationships.
  • Ability to form, facilitate and maintain internal and cross‐functional teams.
  • Established external networks and customer/stakeholder relationship experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills with ability to communicate well with all levels of the organization, executive‐level customers and external relations.
  • Strong strategic and critical thinking, negotiation and decision-making skills.

Placement in the Organization:

  • Reports to the Global VP HSEQ. Key internal clients are business operations and national business line leaders. Partners with and leverages shared services such as Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Ethics & Compliance and Communications.


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