Head of Process Safety & Site Safety

We are partnering with a leading international organisation to identify a senior Process Safety and Safety Leadership professional who will take ownership of the safety agenda for a major, state-of-the-art process facility in Singapore.

Reporting directly to the VP, Site Operations, this person will operate as part of the plant’s senior leadership structure and will have significant influence over how safety is governed, embedded and continuously strengthened across the organisation.

The mandate goes considerably beyond managing a Safety department.

The successful individual will be expected to bring together deep Process Safety expertise, senior leadership capability and organisational influence — setting the direction for safety while building the culture, systems and leadership behaviours required to sustain a high-performing major-hazard operation.

The mandate

You will have broad ownership for the site’s safety framework, with particular emphasis on:

• Process Safety leadership across a complex major-hazard manufacturing environment.
• Establishing and continuously strengthening the plant’s Process Safety Management philosophy, standards and governance.
• Providing credible technical leadership around major accident hazards, process risk, operational discipline and risk management.
• Acting as a senior adviser to the VP and Site Leadership Team on significant safety and operational-risk matters.
• Translating global corporate safety expectations into a practical and sustainable site-wide safety culture.
• Influencing Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Projects and other functions so that safety ownership sits throughout the business — rather than solely within the Safety team.
• Leading and developing an experienced Safety organisation while ensuring the function operates as a strategic business partner to Operations.
• Building strong relationships with corporate stakeholders, regional/global functions, regulators and other external stakeholders.
• Driving organisational learning from incidents, risk identification and operational experience.
• Creating the leadership behaviours, accountability and operating discipline necessary for a mature Process Safety culture.

The underlying position requires substantial expertise across major-hazard installations, process-safety compliance, risk management and incident learning, alongside the ability to shape organisational culture and influence stakeholders in a complex matrix environment.