Safety Engineer | Τεχνικός Ασφαλείας

The posting

Hellas Gold is a mining company producing gold, silver, lead, zinc, and in the future copper, headquartered in Athens. Since 2004, it has been responsibly and safely developing and operating the Kassandra Mines in Northeast Halkidiki under the strictest environmental standards. The Kassandra Mines comprise three assets: the Olympias Mine (gold, silver, lead, zinc), the Skouries Project (copper, gold), and the Stratoni–Mavres Petres Mining and Port facilities. Building on a 25-century mining history, Hellas Gold invests in the sustainable development of the Kassandra Mines, supporting economic growth and contributing to the prosperity of local communities through investments exceeding US$3 billion, employment of more than 5,200 people, active support for local suppliers, and significant investment in community initiatives and projects. Since 2012, Hellas Gold has operated as a subsidiary of Eldorado Gold Corporation, a Canadian mining company with over 30 years of experience in the exploration, development, and operation of mines worldwide.

We live our values in pursuit of our purpose: to find a better way to do things. We aim to break new ground in all that we do. We do this by creating a positive impact today, and for future generations, through our commitment to operating safely, sustainably, and profitably.

The company offers the opportunity to those who wish to express interest in the position of “Safety Engineer | Τεχνικός Ασφαλείας”, for its premises in Chalkidiki. The position will be reported to the Safety Supervisor of the Health & Safety department in Skouries.

Main Responsibilities:

· Strong and continuous field presence across active construction areas, with focus on critical, high-risk and priority activities.

· Day-to-day leadership, coaching and guidance of contractor Safety Supervisors, ensuring effective HSE supervision of their workforces.

· Ensuring compliance with Hellas Gold safety standards, project HSE requirements, approved procedures and applicable legislation across all contractors.

· Participation in daily toolbox talks and construction coordination meetings, ensuring safety risks, interfaces, priority activities and required controls are clearly identified and addressed.

· Review of upcoming works and short-term construction plans to identify high-risk activities and ensure the availability of appropriate HSE resources, permits, procedures, risk assessments and controls.

· Collaboration with contractors on the development and review of method statements, risk assessments/JHAs and safe work procedures for hazardous or non-routine activities.

· Verification of critical controls for high-risk activities, including lifting operations, work at height, excavation, confined spaces, energization/LOTO, hot work and mobile equipment interaction.

· Conducting regular field inspections, task observations and safety interactions, ensuring unsafe conditions and behaviours are promptly addressed and followed up.

· Exercise of stop-work authority where imminent or unacceptable risks are identified, ensuring work resumes only after adequate controls have been verified.

· Monitoring contractor compliance with permit-to-work requirements and other applicable site control systems.

· Leading and supporting incident, near-miss and high-potential event investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective and preventive actions are effectively implemented and closed.

· Monitoring and maintaining contractor safety performance metrics, using leading and lagging indicators to assess HSE performance.

· Identification of adverse trends, recurring findings and areas of underperformance, with targeted improvement actions communicated to Construction Management and contractor leadership.

· Close coordination with Construction, HSE, Quality, Engineering and contractor teams to effectively manage interfaces and ensure safe project execution.

· Promotion of consistent safety reporting, incident learning and the sharing of good practices across contractors.

Requirements:

· University degree in Mine Engineering

· Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)

· Recognized professional HSE qualification is preferred.

· Minimum 7 years of HSE experience in construction, mining, heavy industrial or other high-risk environments.

· Demonstrated experience in supervising or coordinating contractor HSE teams, preferably within major multidisciplinary construction projects.

· Experience in high-risk activities and construction safety, including hazard identification and risk assessment, JHA/JSA and method statement review, permit-to-work systems and critical control verification.

· Proven competence in incident investigation, root-cause analysis and corrective action management.

· Experience in safety inspections, task observations, toolbox talks, emergency preparedness and HSE KPI monitoring and reporting.

· Strong coaching, influencing and field communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with contractors and multidisciplinary teams.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office and HSE reporting systems.

· Relevant construction safety training and demonstrated incident investigation competence.

· Valid drivers license B’ class.

Our company offers a competitive remuneration package that includes an attractive combination of basic salary and benefits, as well as opportunities for development in a challenging work environment.

Inclusion and Diversity

Hellas Gold is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfill their potential.

If you are looking for a global and dynamic environment, please send us your CV.