Senior Offshore HSE Leader – Risk & Compliance in Grimsby

The Senior Offshore HSE Advisor promotes and provides professional expert knowledge and guidance to managers, supervisors, employees and contractors on safe work practices, safety standards, and legal regulations. The role supports identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensures control measures are in place.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain HSE expert knowledge on best practice and legal requirements.
• Secure HSE conformity using agreed processes and legal registers.
• Support and promote development and use of relevant management systems.
• Take a proactive approach to risk management.
• Apply strong technical and people skills.
• Be clear, effective, and positive in verbal and written communication.
• Maintain successful cooperation and collaboration with HSE stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a high work ethic and excellent behaviours.
• Demonstrate efficient and timely collaboration internally and externally.
• Report reliable and timely HSE data.
• Demonstrate an analytical and structured approach to daily workload.

It is generally expected that the advisor can apply advanced HSE skills to the position, has experience within the subject area, knows fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures related to HSE, and knows how to routinely apply knowledge of theories, methods, techniques, and processes to the scope of work.

Typical Tasks (Not Exhaustive)

• Drive and promote a strong proactive HSE culture through leading by example, cultural engagement, using data, raising awareness, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned (registration and implementation).
• Demonstrate and promote data driven risk management through a proactive reporting culture and high-quality data management.
• Support ongoing development, implementation, and use of systems, procedures, instructions, and associated HSE documentation.
• Develop and maintain instructions, procedures, and contingency plans.
• Support and maintain the HSE management system, including QHSE process landscape.
• Support global and local emergency response and crisis management.
• Participate in audits and compliance checks (ISO 9001/14001/45001/55001).
• Plan, facilitate, and participate in safety meetings, toolbox talks, briefings, safety walks, inspections, HAZID/HAZOP workshops, and employer cultural programmes and campaigns.
• Review HSE documentation, Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS).
• Monitor and assess internal and external HSE compliance and performance, including use of incident reporting tools for reporting and trend analysis.
• Coordinate and report safety inspections, incident investigations, root cause analyses, and report derived observations, risks, and lessons learnt.
• Ensure effective liaison with contractors at management and site levels to establish and improve safety, health, and environmental culture.
• Participate and contribute to all relevant site HSE meetings.
• Participate in audits (internal and external).
• Follow up on findings from HSE related audits, inspections, incident investigations, and support implementation of non-conformance reports.
• Report lost time incidents to the HSE organisation in accordance with the process.
• Provide ad hoc advice on questions regarding HSE in daily work (e.g. for management, technicians, internal and external stakeholders).
• Ensure the validity of own safety and training certificates as required.
• Be proactive in maintaining own competence levels required for the role.
• Facilitation of regular HSE meetings with contractor and package representatives.
• Review of Risk Assessed Method Statements (RAMS).
• Operational HSE assessment.
• Conduct HSE inductions of client representatives.
• Deliver HSE presentations at kick off meetings.
• Produce HSE walk reports.
• Enter incidents and proactive measures into the incident reporting system.
• Other deliverables as per project HSE and QHSE risk management processes and QHSE management framework.

Decision Authority

The QHSE function is not the exclusive owner of HSE and therefore does not hold the authority to determine HSE performance on its own. However, an HSE Advisor is a subject matter expert and can contribute to decision-making based on their understanding of the business and the interdependencies with other departments.

Key Interfaces to Other Functions / Stakeholders

• QHSE leadership managers.
• Project and construction managers.
• Client representatives.
• Local regulators and authorities.
• Employees across the organisation.
• Contractors at site.

Requirements

• Relevant academic or technical background.
• Minimum 3-5 years' work experience with HSE, ideally from onshore renewables or offshore windfarm construction.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills.
• IT literate (Microsoft Office package; knowledge of incident reporting tools is an advantage).
• Knowledge of root cause analysis and incident investigation.
• Demonstrable experience in dealing with third-party contractors in relation to HSE.
• Completed NEBOSH (minimum level 3) or similar recognised HSE qualification.
• In date site safety passport (CCNSG or CSCS).
• Current clean UK driver's license.

Desirable Qualifications / Experience

• Qualified or certified auditor.
• Experience in delivery of training courses and training material.
• Prior experience with large offshore wind or similar organisations.
• GWO qualifications, medical and fitness for work certifications for offshore access.