Health Safety & Security Manager

About the job Health Safety & Security Manager

Position / Title: Health Safety & Security Manager

Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Department: Venue Operations

Reporting To: Director-Venue Operations

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly organized and experienced Health Safety Security Manager. This position exercises overall responsibility for H & S and Security's role you will ensure the health, safety and welfare of all persons visiting or working at the location.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop, lead and drive a culture across all sites across the business where health and safety is at the forefront of everything they do.
2. Lead in organizing the safe operational standards to comply with COVID 19 regulations for staff, customers, and external suppliers.
3. Provide HSE advice, guidance, and support to enable the departments to comply with relevant statutory legislation.
4. Establish and agree a site visit schedule to ensure continued, regular and balanced site attendance is achieved.
5. Build and maintain effective customer relationships through planning, implementation and management of successful event security and stewarding operations.
6. Conduct security audits and inspections.
7. Conduct security inductions for new project team members and regular security briefings for all staff.
8. Work closely with key department managers to develop, plan and execute a security plan for events across the portfolio, including the handling of the Saudi Royal Family and VIP Guests.
9. Continuously create a safe working environment for all employees, contracts, and visitors.
10. Provide competent and timely advice to the senior leadership team on any HSE issues.
11. Lead and guide the team in the investigation of all HSE incidents or accidents and ensure the required records are completed and stored.
12. Ensure lessons learned are captured, communicated and the HSE system updated as required for any such incidents.
13. Continuously look for improvements and implement those HSE improvement opportunities.
14. Identify HSE training requirements for all employees with the relevant functional leader.
15. Ensure minimum investigation standards are adhered to and reporting is consistent in line with operational requirements.
16. Design and deliver a robust security plan to ensure critical sites are resourced at key times to meet operational demand.
17. Ability to successfully manage the demands of a constantly changing venue operations environment.
18. Oversight of site security systems (Access Control, CCTV and Intruder Alarms), to include periodic audits/tests/spot checks of security system functionality.
19. Proactive identification of issues with security systems and liaison with vendors to swiftly resolve such issues.
20. Participate in security incident response activities and any technical investigations of security related incidents.
21. Review investigations after incidents, performing impact analysis and providing recommendations to executives around how to prevent similar incidents.

Position Skills and Requirements:

1. Minimum 5 years experience of health, safety and security management in an international venue, ideally within the live events industry.
2. NEBOSH/NCRQ Diploma Level 6 (or equivalent) health and safety qualification with additional experience in areas such as security and crowd management highly beneficial IOSH qualification.
3. An in depth understanding of H & S compliance and risk management.
4. Proven experience of working in an operational H & S role.
5. Previous H & S management experience in a multi-purpose venue environment would be advantageous.
6. Good knowledge and experience of risk analysis.
7. Strong communication skills with ability to influence others (internal & external) and build effective relationships (internal & external).
8. Ability to understand and analyze complex information and present it simply and accurately.
9. Demonstrated ability to liaise with Local Authorities, Regulators and Planning.
10. Considerable knowledge of Process Safety and experience in developing systems to monitor and improve business awareness and controls.
11. Experience in leading a business in Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Method Statement.
12. Experience in HSE training and monitoring.
13. Strong auditing knowledge and skills.
14. An ability to influence all levels of the organization to improve health, safety, and environmental performance, strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Compensation and Benefits

1. Competitive Salary.
2. Discretionary performance bonus up to 3/12 of annual salary.
3. 30 days annual + national/religious holidays.
4. Health care package including family.
5. EOSB As per Saudi Labor Law.
6. Flight from home country to Saudi and return flight on cessation of employment (Applicable in the case of International Hires).
7. Mobile package and Laptop.
8. Annual air ticket package.