Executive HSE Leader | Board Advisor | Governance & Enterprise Risk (Mace Secondee) at Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) (2025-06 – Present)
Scope: Dhs 15.5Bn programme value | 16 consultant/ contractor packages | 64 direct/matrix reports
- Unified HSE controls, procedures, and assurance activity across the programme against MAF Minimum HSE Standards, Dubai Municipality Code of Construction Safety Practice, and international best practice, standardising risk assessment, permit-to-work, and emergency-readiness processes across 16 consultant/ contractor packages.
- Built incident classification models, live analytics dashboards, and structured reporting frameworks that gave leadership real-time visibility of leading indicators and cut investigation/escalation turnaround time by 50%.
- Designed a weighted HSE tender-evaluation and contractor-benchmarking methodology that raised the prequalification bar and lifted contractor compliance scores by 70% across all tiers of the supply chain.
- Led leadership-engagement and behavioural-safety coaching programmes, including senior-level walkdowns, that reduced high-potential incidents / improved observation submissions by 45%.
- Directed emergency-preparedness, crisis-response, and media-protocol readiness, running 4 drills/exercises annually with a fully compliant, coordinated response capability.
Senior HSE Manager at Mace MEA (2024-01 – 2025-07)
Scope: 8 major workstreams | 3 projects mobilised in UAE and KSA
- Authored policies, procedures, governance structures, and RACI matrices across 8 major workstreams, giving MENA and KSA project teams within Mace one standardised HSE operating framework.
- Designed and delivered onboarding and capability-building training that lifted HSE competence across all future MENA and KSA project teams ahead of mobilisation.
- Chaired project decision-making forums and embedded stage-gate, risk-based review checkpoints that shortened approval cycle time by 20% / prevented 3 non-compliant starts.
- Led mobilisation-readiness assurance reviews, validating contractor preparedness and statutory compliance across MENA / KSA new project starts.
Senior HSE Manager (Mace Secondee) at Palm Beach Towers (Nakheel) (2024-01 – 2024-06)
Scope: 3 packages of works required HSE maturity assessment
- Ran a full HSE maturity assessment — systems, capability, leadership behaviour, and culture — across 3 packages, producing a gap-prioritised roadmap adopted by site leadership.
- Overhauled incident classification and leading-indicator tracking, reducing under-reporting by 35% / lifting near-miss submissions by 50%.
- Built a digital near-miss and observation tool that moved reporting from paper to real-time capture across.
- Delivered technical workshops on lifting operations, logistics, and temporary works oversight to 32 engineers/supervisors, reducing high-risk exposure.
Senior HSE Manager (Mace Secondee) at Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) (2023-01 – 2024-01)
Scope: 6 business units | 22 contractors
- Standardised incident reporting, investigation, and classification across all business units, reducing time-to-closure by 20% / improving reportable accuracy.
- Built a tiered HSE training matrix spanning operators to senior leadership, closing competency gaps ahead of schedule.
- Delivered integrated Power BI dashboards and a corporate reporting calendar, cutting KPI-consolidation time by 75% and giving MAF senior management real-time indicator visibility.
- Advised MAF executive leadership on safety governance, feeding directly into MAF committee and board-level oversight mechanism / corporate risk framework.
Head / Senior HSE Manager (Mace Secondee) at National Grid (2020-01 – 2023-12)
Scope: £1Bn | 12 contractors | Major landmarks in London
- Directed the development and execution of HSE strategy across complex, multi-contractor operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and the achievement of organisational safety objectives.
- Championed a positive safety culture through the leadership of behavioural safety initiatives, executive SHEQ governance forums, and workforce engagement programmes that drove measurable improvements in performance and accountability.
- Provided strategic assurance through the oversight of audits, enterprise risk assessments, and independent compliance reviews, strengthening governance frameworks and supporting informed executive decision-making.
Head of Health and Safety at Trant Engineering (2014-01 – 2020-12)
Scope: £600m+ | 6 business units | UK's major oil/ gas/ power and pharmaceutical industries
- Led a multi-disciplinary SHEQ function providing strategic leadership, governance and assurance across six business units, supporting operational delivery, business growth and workforce safety performance throughout the organisation.
- Served as principal advisor to the Board and Executive Leadership Team on enterprise risk, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and organisational resilience, presenting performance, emerging risks and strategic improvement initiatives.
- Developed and implemented the company's long-term SHEQ strategy, transforming assurance, reporting and leadership engagement processes to create a more proactive and risk-focused operating model across all business units.
- Directed a team of regional HSE professionals, advisors, auditors and trainers, establishing competency frameworks, succession planning arrangements and leadership development programmes to strengthen organisational capability.
- Managed annual SHEQ operational budgets, training programmes, external assurance activities and improvement initiatives, ensuring effective allocation of resources whilst delivering measurable business value and regulatory compliance.
- Led corporate certification and assurance programmes, maintaining ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards whilst successfully managing Achilles, ISNetworld assessments, strengthening client confidence and market competitiveness.
- Partnered with commercial and bid teams during major tender submissions and framework renewals, providing strategic SHEQ input that supported business development, client confidence and successful contract awards across multiple sectors.
- Established enterprise-level governance frameworks, performance scorecards and executive reporting systems, improving visibility of organisational risk and enabling data-driven decision making at Board level.
- Directed investigations into significant incidents and high-potential events, ensuring effective root cause analysis, organisational learning and implementation of sustainable corrective actions across the business.
- Led crisis management, business continuity and emergency preparedness programmes, enhancing organisational resilience and ensuring readiness across multiple operational locations and high-risk environments.
- Championed behavioural safety and safety culture transformation initiatives, increasing workforce engagement, strengthening leadership visibility and embedding accountability for safety performance at all organisational levels.
HSE Advisor → Manager → Regional Manager at JOP Ltd (2006-01 – 2014-12)
Scope: £100m+ | responsible for producing approximately 20% of the UK's transportation fuels
- Led Health, Safety and Process Safety performance at the Valero Pembroke Refinery, providing strategic oversight within one of Europe's major high-hazard energy operations and ensuring the safe execution of complex refinery activities.
- Developed extensive expertise in high-risk industrial risk management, process safety, contractor control, emergency preparedness, and regulatory compliance within refinery and petrochemical environments.
- Directed engagement with senior operational leaders, contractors, regulators, and specialist engineering teams, ensuring effective coordination of safety-critical activities and the delivery of operational excellence across complex petrochemical operations.
