You are responsible for managing safety matters in the unit including safety education, incident reporting, investigation and analysis, hazard and near-miss reporting, safety audits and inspections, worksite safety, fire safety and unit's occupational health management.
Safety Officer - Mandai
Permanent
Closing on 28 Nov 2025What the role is
What you will be working on
- Develop and implement comprehensive Unit Safety Programme focusing on incident prevention across four functional areas: safety education, incident reporting, investigation and analysis, hazards and near miss reporting, and safety audits and inspections
- Serve as custodian of Unit Safety Standing Operating Procedures (USSOP) and work with stakeholders to ensure constant updates
- Discuss, review and recommend remedial actions for incident occurrences and inspection observations
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on Safety and ensure certification tests are carried out to determine competency of safety personnel before specialist appointments
- Ensure professional engineer and technical certification for building infrastructure
- Conduct risk assessment on high-risk training activities and ensure proper documentation of risk management plan and risk assessment worksheet report for all unit activities
Challenge(s)
- Having deep understanding of Army's Safety system and culture, policies and directives that guide local and overseas training
- Having in-depth understanding of policies, systems, processes and key stakeholder linkages
- Ensuring training conducted adheres to safe policies
- Communicating policies and implementation clearly to all stakeholders
What we are looking for
- At least 3 years of experience in fields of operations, training, and logistics management
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and logical abilities
- Organised, meticulous, adaptive and self-motivated individual
- Ability to work independently
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work in teams and collaborate with external agencies
- Knowledge management proficiency in tools like Electronic Silk and SharePoint
- High computer literacy with good word processing and spreadsheet skills
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
About your application process
This job is closing on 28 Nov 2025.
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the job ad closing date, we seek your understanding that it is likely that we are not moving forward with your application for this role. We thank you for your interest and would like to assure you that this does not affect your other job applications with the Public Service. We encourage you to explore and apply for other roles within or the wider Public Service.