Site HSE Specialist

Location:

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Job ID:

R0110283

Date Posted:

2025-11-27

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY SYSTEMS LLC

Profession (Job Category):

Legal, Compliance & Audit

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The Opportunity

General Environmental Health & Safety work encompasses activities related to the environment including the broader community impacted by environmental hazards including: Developing and implementing policies and practices to identify/mitigate hazardous conditions within the workplace and external environments; Investigating accidents and environmental incidents and liaising with engineers, management, and health and safety regulatory authorities to identify causes of accidents and prevent their recurrence; Providing advice and training on safety protocols and conducting audits to ensure compliance with organization and government standards related to environmental health and safety; Maintaining relationships with the community, environmental groups, and other stakeholders impacted by the environmental performance of the organization.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Act as a Site HSE Specialist within the HSE function for HVDC project sites.
• Be a leader in promoting integrity, regulatory and corporate & social responsibility at all times.
• Drive and promote HSE positive behaviors.
• Support the HVDC HSE operations and site teams in HSE related matters and the implementation of HSE programs and focus initiatives.
• Drives behavioral change through implementing Group-wide performance improvement programs and practices locally to ensure an exemplary health and safety culture as well as a strong focus on environment throughout the respective organization.
• Safety & Integrity: Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
• Engages internal customers to raise awareness on all HSE across all functions.
• Responsible for HSE reporting, analysis of hazards, incidents & other HSE KPI’s for global HVDC project sites.
• Support the project HSE managers & site HSE team with the issues related to HSE.
• Support and participate in routine and non-routine HSE audits.
• Coordinate and promote the effective closure of various HSE origin and related corrective and preventive actions.
• Engage in incident investigation processes ensuring that causal factors identified have sound and sustainable actions tracked to closure.
• Drive and promote HSE awareness and HSE understanding within HVDC.
• Establish good exchange and collaboration with site HSE team and assist in HSE reporting.
• Share lessons learned as well as best practices to all project sites.
• Drives and ensures compliance with Group management systems (e.g. ISO 14001 and ISO 45001).
• Support and co-develop for continuous improvement on HSE reporting and KPI methodology and analysis.
• Promote awareness and training of ISO Management System Standards as they apply to HSE Operations and Governance activity.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field is required together with Post graduation (or) Diploma in HSE from approved institute for HSE course.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience required with hands on HSE experience in any electrical commissioning projects / power plants / sub stations / construction sites.
• Experience in the Middle east is required.
• Knowledge on MS Office, Intelex, IMS is added advantages.
• Teamwork, Analytical, Communication & Presentation skills are the key required skills.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.
• Proficiency in local language is required.

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