QHSE Diving Support Specialist

QHSE Diving Support Specialist

UK or Danish projects

3+ Months

Monday – Friday

Hybrid with access to London office or based in Denmark with access to Danish Orsted offices.

£560 / day umbrella or 4900 DKK Danish Krone/ day umbrella

Responsibilities

• Support risk owner through entire process.
• Offer expert advice, guidance, and technical support to HSE Risk Owner during planning, pre-mobilization, mobilization and execution phases of diving activities and campaigns
• Tasks
• Offer expert advice, guidance, and technical support to HSE Risk Owner during planning, pre-mobilization, mobilization and execution phases of diving activities and campaigns.
• Ensure that diving operations are complying with national diving legislation.
• Ensure that diving operations are complying with Diving requirements and IMCA Guidelines.
• Ensure that diving operations are risk assessed correctly and carried out as safe as possible.
• Ensure that diving a diving project plan has been developed and reviewed.
• Ensure that all diving equipment is included in a PMS system and in-date.
• Ensure that the diving contractor can recover an unconscious diver and that a recovery exercise has been performed and accepted by prior to any diving operations.
• Ensure that the dive team is qualified for the intended job and that members are carrying necessary certificates/training.
• Check dive logs daily and view subsea video recordings for health, safety, and quality issues.
• Contact authorities (in countries where this is required) to receive a permit for the planned offshore diving operation.
• Verify and ensure that the diving industry – industry standards and guidelines, company policies standards and relevant procedures are implemented, documented, communicated, understood, and enforced for all operations.
• Close outs of all diving systems design audits.
• Analyzing dive statistics and proactively propose suggested improvements.
• Interface with contractor and other stakeholders to ensure diving HSE issues are addressed in all operations.
• Participate in all project HIRA’s.
• Act as focal point for project daily operations and technical support.
• Participate in and expedite all diving incident investigations to share expertise and ensure close-out and corporate learning.
• Periodically visit the worksite to engage with the offshore team and carry out inspections.
• Have a complete knowledge of all the pertinent government regulations, company policies and standards to which the company adheres and ensure that all rules and regulations are followed.
• Investigate and report on any CONTRACTOR accidents, incidents and / or near misses.

Qualifications/Requirements

• IMCA Air or Saturation Diving Supervisor or IMCA auditor certificate.
• 15 years diving managerial experience related to renewable / O&G industry.
• Shall be thoroughly familiar with IMCA ACOP’s
• Technical skills in
• Subsea installations
• Cable interventions
• Survey and inspection work

· 3 years or more recent experience as a diving advisor / diving operations manager supporting offshore diving operations.

· Fully familiar with underwater inspection / construction techniques and equipment.

· Conversant and has kept up to date with all relevant IMCA guidelines, as well as IOGP diving recommended practices.

· Be familiar with relevant legislation / guidance in country of project/operations in relation to underwater operations and safety e.g., IMCA Guidance, UK HSE ACOP, IMO regulations.