Occupational Health Consultant - Relocation to Saudi Arabia

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer. With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply. We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview: Engineering Services are seeking an Occupational Health Consultant to join the Health Protection Division of Environmental Protection Department. The Health Protection Division is responsible for developing and managing health protection programs to assess the company’s performance in resolving health deficiencies within its facilities.

The Occupational Health Consultant’s primary role involves:

• Setting occupational health-related standards and guidelines.
• Implementing health surveillance.
• Providing advisory and consulting services to management and company organizations on health-related matters.
• Participating in activities related to the mitigation of occupational health risks.
• Ensuring the quality of third-party service providers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and oversee health surveillance related processes.
• Evaluate job fitness and compatibility with job demands; conduct periodic physicals for management of preventable occupational conditions, and medical retirement assessments.
• Provide occupational health consultations on the design of new company projects and processes to minimize health hazards.
• Contribute to existing and new occupational health programs and initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to eliminate or mitigate occupational health risks.
• Oversee and assess third-party medical providers for quality assurance of occupational health assessments.
• Develop, rollout and implement the Contractor Fitness to work standards with continuous tracking for compliance and quality assurance with reporting.
• Support Contractor Medical Emergency Response Planning standardization and monitoring to optimize the response to medical emergency incidents.
• Organize a framework and implement Pre-employment/Periodic medical evaluations to proactively identify unfit contractors.
• Develop Cardiac risk factor screening program to identify and manage high-risk contractor cases.
• Undertake periodic field surveys to detect and evaluate any occupational health risks.
• Engage with and provide necessary subject matter expert inputs to external consultants when requested.
• Use and develop skills for occupational health related technology, automation and digitalization.
• Serve as the corporate consultant regarding recent technical advances in prevention of occupationally related diseases.
• Support Persons with Disabilities at work in collaboration with relevant organizations.
• Initiate and review studies and research in the area of occupational health/medicine, as required.
• Participate in innovation, patent filing, publications, knowledge sharing and continuous professional development activities.
• Participate in occupational illness investigation, determination and classification.
• Analyze and interpret statistical data for the evaluation of occupational health programs.
• Collect data on occupational illnesses and analysis for reporting purposes.

As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health/Medicine from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree is preferred. The Candidate shall have 15+ years of experience, with at least five years of full-time practice in occupational health/medicine. Fluent in English with the ability to write scientific reports, preferably established by published articles in international and peer-reviewed journals. Required to have a general knowledge of oil industry processes, workmen’s compensation, computerized registries, and information systems.

Work Location and Work Schedule:

• Work Location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer.
• Work Schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer.

Working environment: Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly. At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development. We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.