Company Description
We are supporting a confidential search for our client in the public transportation and urban mobility sector to hire a Deputy Manager, Safety, Health & Quality. Our client is a well-established Hong Kong transport operator with large-scale daily operations, frontline teams, engineering and maintenance functions, operational facilities, depots, stations, terminals, and office teams.
This is a meaningful in-house safety, health and workplace improvement role focused on enhancing day-to-day safety practices, staff wellbeing, working environment, quality standards, and internal safety culture.
The role is ideal for a practical and people-oriented safety professional who can go beyond compliance paperwork, engage with staff on the ground, identify real operational risks, and turn observations into practical improvement actions.
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Group Director, you will be responsible for promoting and improving workplace safety, health, quality, and working environment standards across the organization. A key upcoming priority will be to develop and implement a comprehensive Safety & Health Manual for employees, supported by clear procedures, communication, training, documentation, and follow-up mechanisms.
You will work closely with internal teams across HR, administration, safety, training, operations, engineering, and management, while acting as the key subject matter professional for staff safety, health, and workplace improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote and improve workplace safety, health, and working environment standards across frontline, operational, engineering, and office teams
- Develop and enhance Safety & Health manuals, SOPs, policies, procedures, records, and internal guidelines
- Conduct regular site visits, inspections, audits, risk assessments, and compliance monitoring across operational facilities and work locations
- Identify workplace risks, unsafe practices, operational inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities through field observation, staff feedback, incident data, and internal review
- Review safety and health KPIs, including accident, injury, incident, near-miss, and workplace risk trends, and propose practical improvement actions
- Manage accident and incident reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, learning points, and follow-up actions
- Organize and deliver safety and health-related training, briefings, campaigns, and staff engagement activities
- Prepare HSQE reports, improvement recommendations, meeting materials, management updates, and proper records for continuous improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree holder or equivalent qualification
- Registered Safety Officer in Hong Kong is required
- Familiarity with Hong Kong’s Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance and related occupational safety requirements
- At least 4 years of relevant experience in occupational safety, health, quality, HSQE, HSEQ, QHSE, workplace safety, staff safety, or operational safety management
- Experience in transportation, aviation, utilities, logistics, facilities management, engineering operations, depot/workshop environments, manufacturing, property operations, public services, or large corporate operational environments would be highly relevant
- Solid experience in inspections, audits, incident investigation, risk assessment, safety documentation, SOP development, internal training, and compliance monitoring
- Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese; able to conduct safety briefings or training in English when required
Candidate Attributes
- Practical, energetic, open-minded, and able to bring fresh ideas to improve safety culture, staff health, and workplace environment
- Someone who can walk the floor, speak with staff, understand real working conditions, improve processes, develop SOPs, deliver training, and measure progress, and turn observations into realistic action plans
- Comfortable developing SOPs, promoting new practices, delivering training, and following through on implementation.
Relevant Candidate Backgrounds
This role may be particularly suitable for candidates from:
- Transport operations
- Aviation or airport operations
- Utilities or public services
- Logistics or fleet operations
- Engineering operations
- Facilities management
- Depot or workshop environments
- Manufacturing or industrial operations
- Property operations or large corporate workplace safety teams
What Our Client Offers
- 5-day work week
- Attractive monthly package depending on experience and qualifications
- Opportunity to join a very well-established Hong Kong transport and mobility operator with long-term development potential
- Meaningful in-house role with direct impact on staff safety, health, quality, and working environment
- Opportunity to lead important improvement work, including the development of a new Safety & Health Manual
- Broad exposure across frontline operations, engineering, facilities, office teams, training, HR, and management stakeholders
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified safety professional who wants to move into a stable in-house environment and play a practical role in upgrading workplace safety, staff health, quality standards, and internal safety culture.
Interested candidates are welcome to apply confidentially or contact us for a private discussion.
