AVP, HSSE (Centre of Excellence)

About Sembcorp

Sembcorp is a leading energy and urban solutions provider headquartered in Singapore. Led by its purpose to drive energy transition, Sembcorp delivers sustainable energy solutions and urban developments by leveraging its sector expertise and global track record.

Join us in shaping a sustainable energy future
Drive Asia’s energy transition with us! Our Gas & Related Services segment is a key growth engine, delivering reliable and efficient energy to industries and communities across multiple countries. We support Asia’s growing energy needs while advancing the shift to a lower-carbon future.

Purpose and Scope
The Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) Head leads the HSSE agenda across the Gas & Related Services Business. The role establishes governance, standards and strategic priorities; provides independent assurance on material risks and regulatory compliance; and drives consistent HSSE performance across operations, projects and business units. Working closely with Senior Leaders and respective Divisional HSSE teams, the role strengthens organisational capability, promotes continuous improvement and embeds a strong culture of safety, accountability and operational excellence.

The role covers the full GRS portfolio, including operating power and water plants, projects, construction sites, solar assets and industrial facilities across Singapore, Bangladesh, Oman, UAE, Myanmar. It provides portfolio-wide HSSE leadership to drive a common safety culture, consistent governance, standardised assurance and measurable performance improvement across all locations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Governance, Standards and Strategy

• Own and govern the Gas Business HSSE operating model, decision rights, accountabilities, standards, critical controls and minimum requirements, ensuring alignment with company policy, regulatory obligations and leading industry practice.

• Shape and secure senior leadership endorsement of the multi-year HSSE strategy and annual improvement roadmap, with measurable objectives, leading and lagging indicators, maturity targets and clear executive governance.

• Provide authoritative HSSE input to business strategy, investment decisions, major projects, acquisitions and operational plans; challenge risk acceptance where required and promote visible leadership, ownership and accountability.

Safety Culture, Leadership and Behaviour

• Establish a common multi-site HSSE governance and assurance framework across the GRS portfolio, including standard audit protocols, site maturity assessments, critical control verification, action closure governance, and common HSSE reporting definitions and scorecards to enable consistent oversight, benchmarking and senior leadership decision making across all locations.

• Establish and sustain a common GRS HSSE culture based on shared safety values, leadership behaviours, risk ownership, learning discipline and accountability, while allowing local implementation to reflect asset, regulatory and site risk requirements.

• Develop safety leadership capability among Plant Heads, Project Managers, functional leaders, HSSE Leads and frontline supervisors through visible leadership, coaching, field engagement, behavioural safety and consistent accountability routines.

• Translate learnings from incidents, audits, GSMC, Group HSSE forums and industry events into practical site improvements, supported by clear safety communication, contractor engagement and workforce participation across all locations.

Performance, Assurance and Risk

• Sponsor the development of digital HSSE dashboards, predictive analytics and executive reporting that provide timely insight into performance and emerging risks; govern common definitions, incident classification and scorecards to support senior management and Board-level decision-making.

• Establish and oversee an independent, risk-based assurance programme covering audits, inspections, leadership field engagements, regulatory compliance and critical-control verification across the Gas Business portfolio.

• Hold Business Units accountable for timely and effective closure of incident actions, audit findings and improvement commitments; escalate overdue, recurring or systemic gaps to senior leadership and recommend intervention where risk exposure is unacceptable.

• Monitor major accident hazards, process safety, barrier health, high-potential events and high-risk work controls to drive systemic risk reduction.

Operations, Projects and Compliance

• Define HSSE expectations for contractors, vendors, projects, shutdowns, turnarounds and high-risk maintenance, from prequalification and design through mobilisation, execution, commissioning and handover.

• Provide executive oversight of material legal and regulatory obligations, permits, licenses, environmental compliance, emissions, waste, water discharge, spill prevention and sustainability-linked reporting, ensuring significant exposures are surfaced and addressed.

• Represent the Gas Business, as required, in senior-level engagements with regulators, emergency agencies, insurers, auditors and industry bodies, and translate emerging requirements into timely business actions and updates to internal standards.

• Strengthen construction, contractor and project HSSE governance across portfolio, including contractor prequalification, permit-to-work and high-risk work controls, lifting, electrical safety, work at height, confined space, hot work, simultaneous operations, commissioning and handover, while ensuring compliance across different countries, regulatory regimes and operating cultures.

Capability, Incident Learning and Collaboration

• Lead the Gas Business HSSE functional network and partner with Business Unit HSSE Leads to align priorities, strengthen succession and capability pipelines, share good practices, and build a consistent standard of functional leadership through coaching, mentoring and targeted development.

• Ensure effective emergency preparedness and support investigations of incidents and near misses, including root-cause analysis and completion of corrective actions.

• Capture and share learning from incidents, audits, industry events and regulatory updates; prevent recurrence through systemic improvements and verification of learning effectiveness.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Health and Safety or a related discipline; relevant professional certification or training in HSSE management is advantageous.

• At least 15 years of progressive HSSE experience in energy, gas, utilities, power generation, oil and gas, chemicals, heavy industry or construction, including experience with high risk operations, projects and contractor managed activities.

• Minimum 5-7 years in a senior HSSE leadership role with proven experience leading multi site or regional HSSE governance, managing HSSE professionals or functional networks, and driving performane improvement across multiple operations, business units or jurisdictions.

• In-depth knowledge of applicable HSSE legislation, standards and industry practices, with demonstrated experience managing HSSSE risk, compliance and performance across multiple Business Units, jurisdictions, regulatory regimes and cultural operating environments.

• Proven executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively, lead complex cross-functional change, develop high-performing HSSE teams and embed a strong safety culture across diverse operating environments.

• Strong analytical, communication and change-leadership skills, with the ability to convert risk and performance data into clear priorities and action.

Our Culture at Sembcorp

At Sembcorp, our culture is shaped by a strong set of shared behaviours that guide the way we work and uphold our commitment to driving the energy transition.

We foster an institution-first mindset, where the success of Sembcorp takes precedence over individual interests. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do, as we work seamlessly across markets, businesses, and functions to achieve our goals together. Accountability is a core principle, ensuring that we take ownership of our commitments and deliver on them with integrity and excellence. These values define who we are and create a workplace where our people can thrive while making a meaningful impact on driving energy transition.

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