Occupational Health Consultant - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Expat

Position: Occupational Health Consultant - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Relocation Package
This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia. It is a permanent full time Expat position with an attractive relocation package. Please note only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Job Overview:

Position description

We are seeking a 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 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, and ensuring the quality of third-party service providers

Minimum requirements

As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelors degree in Occupational Health/Medicine from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree is preferred.

The Candidate shall have ten (10) years of experience, with at least five years of full-time practice in occupational health/medicine.

- You will be fluent in English with the ability to write scientific reports, preferably established by published articles in international and peer-reviewed journals.
- You will be able to demonstrate evidence of continuous professional development.
- The candidate is preferred to possess general knowledge of oil industry processes, workmen's compensation, computerized registries, and information systems

Duties and responsibilities

You will be required to perform the following:

- Implement and oversee health surveillance related processes.
- Evaluate the job fitness and compatibility with the jobs demands; periodic physicals for management of preventable occupational conditions, and medical retirement assessments.
- Provide occupational health consultations, when requested, 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 and partners 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 of 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, if necessary, periodic field surveys to detect and evaluate any occupational health risks.
- When requested, engage with, and providing necessary subject matter expert inputs to external consultants.
- Use and develop skills for occupational health related technology, automation and digitalization
- Serve as the corporate consultant with regards to 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.