Offshore Team Leader

This is a great opportunity to join our Offshore Operations as a NUI Team where you will need to be flexible to work across our Southern North Sea Assets. The Offshore Team Leader role is responsible for the overall management, control, and safe operation of the installation while it is attended. If successful in the role you will be accountable for leading and supervising a team of multi-skilled Technicians and Operators, ensuring that all Safety and Environmental Critical Elements (SECEs) and associated barriers are maintained, monitored, and remain fully effective.

The position will be responsible for the effective implementation and ongoing management of the Control of Work process, operational risk management, emergency response readiness, and environmental compliance. The Offshore Team Leader must ensure that all activities are appropriately planned, risk assessed, controlled, and executed in accordance with the Safety Case, company standards, and applicable procedures.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Ensure all activities are planned, risk assessed, authorised and executed in compliance with company policies, procedures and statutory HSE requirements.
• Maintain and demonstrate competence as OIM across all NUI platforms within their area of operation.
• Manage operational activities to meet production requirements and minimise equipment downtime whilst maintaining safe and reliable operations.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of emergency response roles and responsibilities and lead the effective implementation of emergency response procedures when required.
• Maintain responsibility for the security of the installation and the safe coordination of marine activities within the 500-metre safety zone during manned operations.
• Coordinate activities across the asset to ensure work is executed safely, efficiently and in alignment with operational and production priorities.
• Ensure maintenance activities are effectively planned, prioritised, coordinated and executed safely and efficiently.
• Work in close cooperation with OOE and NUI personnel to develop, manage and deliver daily work schedules and longer-term operational plans.
• Ensure assigned responsibilities are clearly communicated, understood and completed safely, effectively and in accordance with approved procedures.
• Ensure operational, maintenance and assurance records are accurately maintained, updated and retained in accordance with company requirements.
• Maintain detailed platform knowledge and provide technical leadership for ESD resets, platform start-ups, shutdowns and operational troubleshooting.
• Manage conflicting activities through the Control of Work and SIRP processes to maintain a safe working environment.
• Fulfil Area Authority responsibilities, ensuring work is authorised, coordinated and controlled in accordance with Control of Work requirements.
• Assess, maintain and develop team competence, providing coaching and support to ensure personnel can safely fulfil their responsibilities.
• Conduct appraisals reviews and actively support the ongoing development and progression of team members.
• Ensure incidents, near misses and unsafe conditions are responded to, investigated, reported and followed through to completion.
• Act as deputy for the NUI OOE when required and support succession planning and leadership development opportunities.
• Able to work on Walk-To-Work operations.

Environmental:

• Ensure environmental hazards, impacts and controls are identified, assessed and managed through task risk assessments.
• Maintain and verify effective controls for environmental aspects in accordance with SEMS requirements.
• Ensure all bunkering and fuel transfer activities are planned, supervised and controlled in accordance with approved procedures.
• Lead the response to environmental incidents and ensure appropriate reporting, mitigation and follow-up actions are completed.
• Ensure emissions and discharge monitoring, sampling and reporting activities are completed in accordance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Ensure personnel maintain the competence necessary to fulfil their environmental responsibilities.

Safety & Environmentally Critical Tasks:

• Ensure Safety and Environmental Critical Elements (SECEs), systems and associated barriers are inspected, verified, maintained and remain effective.
• Maintain overall control of the installation, ensuring the health, safety and welfare of personnel and the safe execution of all activities within the installation's 500-metre safety zone.
• Identify, assess, monitor and manage operational risks to ensure they remain ALARP and within approved limits.
• Ensure assurance activities are completed, findings addressed, and corrective actions implemented and closed out within agreed timescales.

Safety & Environmentally Critical Courses:

• Offshore Installation Manager Controlling Emergencies
• Offshore Installation Managers Regulations
• BOSIET with CA EBS
• MIST

Key Requirements Include:

• Qualifications: Qualified to a minimum of HNC, with an engineering background or a relevant trade. A strong foundation knowledge of process operations in the offshore gas production industry.
• Experience: Provide strong leadership skills to develop others, provide timely feedback and guidance to the technicians. The job holder must be able to facilitate change where the tasks are complex or unclear.