HSE Director

Overview

Job Description

HSE Directo

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the overall HSE strategy, governance framework, policies, procedures, and performance standards for the program.
• Provide leadership and direction to HSE teams across multiple project packages and contractor environments.
• Drive a proactive safety culture across contractors, consultants, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with applicable aviation, construction safety, environmental, and local authority requirements.
• Manage regulatory audits, inspections, permits, approvals, and authority engagements.
• Oversee construction safety across airfield works, terminals, utilities, and supporting infrastructure.
• Ensure effective safety controls are in place for high-risk activities including lifting, excavation, working at height, confined spaces, and live operations.
• Review risk assessments, method statements, safety plans, and contractor HSE performance.
• Oversee environmental compliance, sustainability performance, environmental management plans, and impact mitigation measures.
• Lead investigations into major incidents, near misses, and high-potential events, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions are implemented.
• Act as the primary HSE interface with airport authorities, regulators, clients, consultants, contractors, and senior leadership.
• Support emergency preparedness, crisis management planning, HSE workshops, safety forums, and coordination meetings.
• Establish HSE KPIs, dashboards, reporting systems, audits, inspections, and assurance processes.
• Promote workforce engagement, behavioral safety, induction programs, and continuous improvement in safety culture.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Safety Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 25 years of experience in HSE leadership roles across major infrastructure, aviation, airport, or airfield development programs.
• Proven experience within airport, airfield, EPC, PMC, or delivery partner environments.
• Strong background in construction safety management across complex, multidisciplinary projects.
• Deep knowledge of international HSE standards including ICAO, FAA, OSHA, NFPA, ISO 45001, and ISO 14001.
• Experience managing large HSE teams and multi-contractor project environments.
• Strong capability in auditing, compliance management, reporting, incident investigation, and corrective action management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and crisis management skills.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Master’s Degree in Safety, Environmental Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Chartered status or equivalent HSE professional certification, such as NEBOSH IGC / IDIP, CSP, CIH, or CMIOSH.
• Experience on GCC airport megaprojects or complex aviation infrastructure programs.
• Background in ESG, sustainability reporting, carbon management, FIDIC-based contracts, and digital HSE systems.
• Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
• We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!
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