HSE Advisor

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world’s leading energy companies. We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination. The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs; planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs. This is an exciting time to join us on this journey. We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

• The HSE Advisor will provide proactive Health, Safety and Environmental support to the offshore and onshore teams engaged on contracts.
• This position reports to the HSE Team Lead.
• Take personal responsibility for safety and act as a champion for Petrofac’s ‘Life saving rules’.
• Act as focal point for contract activities on HSE matters, both onshore and offshore.
• Act as support for the relevant HSE team in driving performance in terms of leading and lagging indicators, strategic direction and tactical actions.
• Assist development and implementation of contract HSE objectives and targets in line with Company HSE Strategy.
• Co-ordinate delivery of Petrofac HSE themes and campaigns within the team.
• Active member of the Asset Solutions West HSE Team, sharing activities and supporting other Team members.
• Participate and support development and review of procedures.
• Identify common performance issues and develop innovative solutions to address.
• Capture solutions to add to explicit knowledge base (i.e. HSE Plans, HSEMS procedures and guidance, campaigns and initiatives).
• Represent the Company and its Management Systems and arrangements to Clients and subcontractors.
• Identify common client initiatives/issues and develop common good practice approaches where possible.
• Support induction process and ongoing communication efforts.
• Actively participate in routine meetings of H&S personnel.
• Coach and mentor others, especially new hire onboarding in PFML systems/arrangements and good practice.
• Actively support and monitor synergi actions for timely closure, quality and calibre of action.
• Actively involved in audits, reviews, active monitoring and incident investigations.
• Act as an interface with the Petrofac/Client Occupational Health Teams.
• Co-ordinate and actively participate in Client and asset health, safety and environmental meetings.
• Prepare reports and statistics for contract for internal and external reporting and for Clients.
• Regular site visits, monitoring activities and processes, meeting staff and giving briefings.
• Advise client on ER matters as appropriate.

Essential Qualifications and Skills:

• NEBOSH qualification or equivalent preferred.
• A high level of experience in offshore health, safety and environmental management.
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to liaise with all levels in the Company and in Client organizations.
• A strong team player with well-developed influencing skills.
• Solid problem solving capability.
• Understand the UKCS regulatory regime.
• Understand and support HSE systems including ORA’s, safe systems of work, HIRA’s, etc.
• Use initiative and be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Ideally, experience of offshore operations, ideally in hands-on operations or as site-based HSE Adviser.
• Demonstrable history of frequent site HSE visits over a significant period of time to gain practical experience.
• Developing business cases as required for potential safety improvements identified.