HSE Advisor

Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a Site HSE Advisor / Safety Coach to support a high-profile client across two key projects in the North East of Scotland.

This role will predominately be split across two sites in the North East of Scotland, with occasional visits to the main Wood office in Aberdeen. Due to the nature of the role, the individual must be able to travel to corresponding sites as required on a daily basis, one is in Peterhead and the other is in Angus.

Occasional travel to other UK sites may be expected for Auditing or cover.

Please note applicants must be able to pass HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check.

The Role

Reporting into the HSE Lead, the HSE Advisor will be responsible for the provision of timely advice and guidance on all matters pertaining to Health, Safety and the Environment with respect to Legislation, Company Policy and Management System and Client requirements at the client sites thereby ensuring business risks are prevented and mitigated.

Due to the nature of the role, the advisor will be expected to have a proactive approach to implementing and ensuring a positive and effective safety culture at the project sites. Working closely with the site reps and attending relevant safety briefings with the teams to understand the risks and support in mitigating against them.

This is an ideal opportunity for an individual with experience in site safety culture from either a construction or technical background or currently working in a similar HSE environment, who has a positive and proactive approach to ensuring a safe working environment within busy site activity.

Responsibilities

The key objectives for this role are:

1. Being a visible and active member of Safety Briefings ("Tool box talks") where able. Ensuring the requirements stipulated in HSE interface documents/plans are communicated to all relevant personnel.
2. Liaising with and building relationships with Client HSE Reps and site Safety Reps. Participating in HSE incident investigations and undertaking the appropriate reporting requirements.
3. Assist in coordinating internal and external audits.
4. Communicating the important messages from incidents and accidents as a part of the lessons learned process to all relevant parties.
5. Promoting and communicating lessons learned from within their own project; reporting deficiencies within the project and recording all reportable issues within HSE systems.
6. Ensuring the project emergency response arrangements are in place and are communicated to all personnel; ensuring that project requirements align with Client requirements if these take precedence.
7. Participation at project HSE meetings, workshops and forums.
8. Supporting with the development of HSE improvement plans in line with Project, Client and SI strategic objectives.
9. Supporting with the development of the project HSE interface requirements; ensuring compliance with all existing interface documents and in the development of future plans.
10. Maintaining a system for monitoring HSE performance.
11. Promoting workforce involvement in all HSE activities, initiatives and programmes.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

Expected:

1. Relevant technical or HSE qualification or qualified by experience with professional certification.
2. NEBOSH Certificate.
3. Previous practical experience in a technical role, or association with HSE role preferably at the construction phase of a project.
4. Previous experience in a project site environment.
5. Commitment to HSE and in particular safety and assurance and the need to drive down incidents and accidents across the assigned projects.
6. Excellent communication and influential skills at all levels of the business both internally and externally.
7. Comfortable in both client and other 3rd party environments; able to build exemplary working relationships with client, subcontractors and internal stakeholders.
8. Commitment to continuous improvement.
9. Good planning and organisational skills.
10. Effective/competent MS Office Suite User.

Desirable

1. NVQ Level 4 IOSH.

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.