About the Role
The position involves coordinating health, safety, and environmental (HSE) requirements across the Film Studio asset, ensuring safe activation, handover, and day-to-day operations. This role is critical in ensuring that contractors, employees, tenants, productions, and service providers comply with applicable HSE procedures, risk controls, permits, inspections, and reporting requirements to support a safe and production-ready operating environment.
Ready to apply for roles like this?
Unlock the company name and direct application link. Subscribers get instant access to fresh jobs across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, many with visa support.
Unlock employer & apply directly
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and monitor HSE policies, procedures, site rules, statutory requirements, and operational safety standards across the Film Studio asset.
- Support safety readiness for activation, commissioning, handover, testing, workshops, productions, tenant operations, and temporary installations.
- Coordinate contractor inductions, permits to work, risk assessments, method statements, toolbox talks, and compliance documentation.
- Conduct site inspections, safety observations, audits, and walkthroughs across studios, workshops, backlots, offices, and operational areas.
- Maintain risk registers, incident logs, corrective action trackers, inspection records, and HSE documentation repositories.
- Support incident reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned implementation.
- Coordinate HSE requirements for productions, equipment movement, set builds, temporary structures, special effects, workshops, and high-risk activities.
- Monitor contractor and service provider compliance with site safety requirements and escalate non-compliance where required.
- Support emergency preparedness, evacuation drills, first-aid readiness, fire safety coordination, and response planning.
- Coordinate with Facilities, Security, Operations, Commercial, Procurement, and Corporate Enablement teams on safety dependencies and risk controls.
- Support development and implementation of HSE procedures, checklists, safety campaigns, and training materials.
- Review operational readiness plans and identify safety gaps before productions, tenant activity, or facility opening milestones.
- Prepare HSE reports, inspection summaries, incident dashboards, and compliance updates for management review.
- Support environmental controls, waste management coordination, housekeeping standards, and sustainability-related safety practices where applicable.
- Promote a proactive safety culture through communication, coaching, and visible site engagement.
KPIs
- Number of reportable incidents and near misses
- Corrective action closure rate
- Inspection and audit completion rate
- Permit-to-work compliance rate
- Contractor induction completion rate
- HSE documentation accuracy and timeliness
- Emergency drill and safety training completion rate
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Engineering, Environmental Management, or related field.
- NEBOSH, IOSH, OSHA, or equivalent HSE certification preferred.
Experience
- 4–7 years of experience in HSE coordination, occupational safety, operational risk management, or site safety.
- Experience in construction handover, facilities operations, events, studios, entertainment venues, or complex operational sites preferred.
- Experience managing contractor safety, inspections, incident investigations, and permit-to-work processes.
Preferred Background
- Film studios, entertainment venues, event environments, hospitality assets, facilities operations, construction-to-operations handover, or operational activation environments.
- Experience supporting commissioning, operational activation, production safety, and temporary works preferred.
Technical & Functional Expectations
- Strong knowledge of HSE standards, risk assessments, inspections, incident management, and permit-to-work processes.
- Ability to coordinate contractor and production safety in fast-changing operational environments.
- Strong documentation, reporting, corrective-action tracking, and compliance monitoring capability.
- Strong communication and site-stakeholder coordination skills.
Key Competencies
- HSE compliance
- Risk assessment
- Contractor safety
- Incident management
- Inspection and audit coordination
- Permit-to-work control
- Safety communication
