HSE Director - Aviation Infrastructure

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HSE Director – Aviation Infrastructure

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Airlines/Aviation
Function:
Occupational Health and Safety

Experience:

25 years HSE leadership experience
Job Type: Full-time

HSE Director - Aviation Infrastructure in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Airlines/Aviation opportunity with Parsons Corporation for an accomplished HSE leader who can provide strategic governance across a major airport infrastructure programme. The role is responsible for health, safety, environmental, and sustainability performance across aviation construction packages, including airfield works, terminals, utilities, live operational interfaces, contractor environments, regulatory compliance, incident response, and programme-wide safety culture.

The HSE Director will lead programme-level health, safety, environmental, and sustainability management across complex airport infrastructure delivery where construction activity, aviation regulations, live operations, environmental controls, and multi-contractor coordination require strong governance. This position supports safe and compliant delivery by setting HSE strategy, leading assurance processes, directing HSE teams, engaging regulators and airport authorities, managing high-risk construction controls, and ensuring that safety and environmental performance remain visible at executive, contractor, and worksite levels.

• Lead the overall HSE strategy, governance framework, procedures, policies, assurance model, and performance standards for a major aviation infrastructure programme.
• Provide strategic direction to HSE teams working across multiple project packages, contractor environments, consultants, and delivery partners.
• Drive a proactive safety culture across contractors, consultants, airport stakeholders, client teams, construction teams, and programme leadership.
• Ensure compliance with aviation safety requirements, construction safety regulations, environmental obligations, local authority requirements, and client standards.
• Manage regulatory audits, inspections, permits, approvals, authority engagements, compliance reviews, and follow-up actions.
• Oversee construction safety across airfield works, terminal buildings, utilities, support infrastructure, enabling works, and live airport interfaces.
• Ensure effective controls are implemented for high-risk activities such as lifting operations, excavation, working at height, confined spaces, temporary works, traffic movement, and work near live operations.
• Review and challenge contractor risk assessments, method statements, HSE plans, emergency arrangements, inspection programmes, and safety performance records.
• Oversee environmental compliance, sustainability performance, environmental management plans, mitigation measures, monitoring programmes, and reporting obligations.
• Lead investigations into major incidents, near misses, high-potential events, and serious non-compliances.
• Ensure root cause analysis, corrective actions, preventive actions, lessons learned, and effectiveness reviews are completed properly.
• Act as the primary HSE interface with airport authorities, regulators, clients, consultants, contractors, senior leadership, and project stakeholders.
• Support emergency preparedness, crisis management planning, incident response coordination, drills, exercises, and readiness reviews.
• Lead HSE workshops, safety forums, leadership briefings, coordination meetings, and contractor performance review sessions.
• Establish HSE KPIs, dashboards, audit schedules, inspection plans, reporting systems, trend analysis, and assurance processes.
• Monitor programme-wide HSE performance and provide executive-level updates covering risks, trends, compliance status, serious incidents, and improvement actions.
• Promote workforce engagement, behavioral safety, induction programmes, leadership safety walks, observation systems, and continuous improvement in safety culture.
• Guide contractors and delivery partners on practical improvements to field safety, environmental controls, reporting quality, and risk management.
• Ensure HSE considerations are embedded in planning, design coordination, construction sequencing, procurement decisions, and operational readiness activities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop senior HSE managers, advisors, inspectors, environmental specialists, and contractor HSE representatives.
• Promote disciplined documentation, transparent escalation, strong governance, and consistent implementation of programme HSE requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Safety Engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 25 years of experience in HSE leadership roles across major infrastructure, aviation, airport, airfield, or complex capital development programmes.
• Proven experience in airport, airfield, EPC, PMC, delivery partner, or major construction programme environments.
• Strong background in construction safety management across…