About Al-Futtaim Group

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Overview of the role

The Health & Safety Manager plays a pivotal role in establishing and maintaining a corporate health, safety, and environmental management system across all projects within the organization, ensuring compliance with OSHA standards and international best practices. The manager is responsible for fostering a proactive safety culture aimed at achieving zero-harm objectives and improving overall workforce wellbeing. The role requires overseeing consistent implementation of safety governance and emergency preparedness while driving continuous improvement and benchmarking against industry leaders. It involves managing health and safety across all project phases, providing executive management with visibility on safety performance, and ensuring seamless transition to facility management teams. Success in this role is defined by improved safety performance, effective stakeholder alignment, and maintaining high standards of risk management.

What you will do

General

• Establish and maintain Corporate Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSSE) Management System across all projects, ensuring full compliance with OSHA standards, local regulations, and international best practices.
• Create and sustain a proactive safety culture that drives zero-harm objectives, minimizes incidents, enhances workforce wellbeing, and promotes visible safety leadership across all project stakeholders.
• Ensure consistent implementation of safety governance, contractor safety management, audit programs, risk control measures, and emergency preparedness plans across the entire project portfolio.
• Achieve best-in-class contractor and PMC safety performance through effective oversight, performance monitoring, compliance management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure seamless safety management throughout project lifecycles, including construction, commissioning, handover, operational readiness, and transition to Facility Management teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and safety excellence by benchmarking against leading real estate developers such as Emaar, SODIC, Palm Hills, and other industry leaders.
• Manage incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation in a timely and effective manner.
• Provide executive management with clear visibility of portfolio safety performance, key risks, trends, audit findings, incident statistics, and corrective action status to support informed decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate critical risks associated with high-risk activities such as lifting operations, excavation works, confined space entry, demolition works, electrical activities, hot works, and working at heights.

Required skills to be successful

• Safety leadership and safety culture development
• Multi-project HSE governance
• Contractor and PMC management excellence
• Risk management and hazard identification

What qualifies you for the role

• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental (HSSE) Management within large-scale real estate developments, construction, infrastructure, or mixed-use projects.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as NEBOSH Diploma, OSHA Certification, IOSH, and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor/Lead Implementer are highly preferred.
• Extensive hands-on experience implementing and enforcing OSHA standards and international HSE management systems.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.

Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.

AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.