Senior Safety Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Safety Engineer (Saudi National) to join our team! In this role you will be providing senior professional oversight, technical guidance, training and support to the project and lead safety audit efforts and champion implementation of corporate safety processes and initiatives.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assist PMC HSE Manager to carry out SH&E functions at multiple infrastructure and building construction projects on a program management role.
• Advises and assists the most senior construction site representative in the establishment and management of ESHARP Management and Parsons SH&E processes, identifying and eliminating/controlling any hazards to persons and property.
• Develops site-specific work plans, SH&E compliance programs, training programs, and orientation plans fully conforming to relevant SH&E regulations, Parsons’ ESHARP management system, and client requirements.
• Collaborates with SH&E and project and program managers to evaluate contractors’ SH&E performance, planning, and culture to be consistent with the company’s risk management practices and core values.
• Audits projects and programs and their worksites against corporate and client standards; to detect and correct safety hazards, creates, and submits written audit reports.
• Implements Parsons’ occupational injury and incident reporting and management processes.
• Initiates and conducts thorough incident investigations and root cause analyses using secure protocols.
• Performs trends analyses on audit findings, inspection findings, and incident reports; creates and submits regular analysis reports.
• Represents the program SH&E manager on project or program worksites.
• Supervises emergency response team and first aid personnel in providing services emergency situations and to occupationally injured or ill personnel.
• Prepares and reviews audit and inspection reports and OSH statistics reports and presentations.
• Represents management during safety inspections of the job site by regulatory authorities or company insurance carriers.
• Provides oversight to the Parsons’ new hire safety orientation process and other safety related training.
• Review risk assessments for upcoming work and provides technical assistance to the safety planning process.
• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.

Desired candidate profile

• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Safety and Health or any relevant engineering disciplines from an accredited university.
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience in the field of Health and Safety, including some supervisory experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Federal and State health and safety regulations and reporting procedures.
• Advanced knowledge of safety-related national consensus standards (e.g., ANSI, NFPA).
• Ability to perform in a supervisory/managerial capacity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic is required along with excellent presentation skills.
  
  

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Experience of working internationally (KSA experience preferred).
• Provides oversight to the Parsons’ new hire safety orientation process and other safety related training.
• Review risk assessments for upcoming work and provides technical assistance to the safety planning process.
• Performs other responsibilities associated with this position as may be appropriate.