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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) activities across project sites while supporting the successful delivery of automation and electrification projects within the Energy Industries business. You will play a critical role in fostering a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and ABB requirements, and coordinating project activities to achieve safe, efficient, and successful project execution.

The work model for the role is: Onsite (#LI-Onsite)

This role is contributing to the Energy Industries Business Area in South Korea. This role requires frequent presence at project sites to ensure safe execution of work, support contractors and project teams, and drive compliance with customer, regulatory, and company HSE requirements.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Leading site HSE activities to ensure compliance with ABB standards, customer requirements, and applicable regulations, while promoting a proactive and safety-first culture across all project phases.
• Conducting safety inspections, risk assessments, contractor safety monitoring, and permit-to-work reviews to ensure safe work practices are consistently implemented on site.
• Coordinating day-to-day project activities, schedules, resources, and stakeholder communication to support successful project delivery and milestone achievement.
• Participating in incident investigations, identifying root causes, implementing corrective actions, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across HSE and project execution activities.
• Collaborating with customers, contractors, and internal project teams to proactively manage project risks, support operational excellence, and ensure project objectives are achieved safely and efficiently.

You will join a collaborative and safety-focused team where HSE excellence and project performance go hand in hand. This role offers the opportunity to develop both site safety leadership and project management expertise while working on impactful industrial and automation projects.

Qualifications for the role

• Korean Industrial Safety Engineer certification is mandatory and required for appointment as a Site Safety Manager in accordance with applicable regulations.
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience in site-based HSE, project coordination, construction, industrial, automation, or engineering environments.
• Demonstrated experience in safety inspections, risk assessments, hazard identification, contractor safety management, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Understanding of project execution processes, including planning, scheduling, resource coordination, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholders and project teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, Automation, Occupational Health & Safety, or a related discipline.
• Basic English communication skills, both written and verbal.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

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