Emergency Response Advisor

The emergency response advisor will support the Emergency Response Lead for the HPC / Nuclear Development Emergency Response and act as an advisor to support the Emergency response lead for operational Response and recovery for the Hinkley Point C construction site. This includes supporting the assurance of operational response arrangements, plans, and equipment.

Hinkley Point C is a major infrastructure project requiring expertise and support of many other contractor organisations to deliver the project safely, to the right quality, on schedule and within budget. To provide assurance to our stakeholders that the project will be delivered safely and that we are controlling all potential hazards and safety risks, this position is required to support any activity that can help control site wide risks to the project.

Principal Accountabilities

• Fire and Emergency Response technical advisor, providing advice and support to all levels of management including the Emergency Response Lead.
• Advise on site wide incident response arrangements.
• Development and management of site wide incident support and recovery arrangements.
• Advise for incident response and recovery capabilities onsite.
• Strategic and tactical incident advisor supporting duty managers at the scene and/or remotely.
• Interface with regulator for emergency response matter in the absence of emergency response lead.
• FRS - firefighting and technical rescue assurance on the direction of emergency response lead.
• Tier 1 - firefighting and technical rescue assurance.
• Promote and facilitate testing and exercising of emergency response arrangements.
• Support the Incident Response Lead in the management of rescue provision across site.
• Deliver a variety of inspections, checks and audits across the HPC project covering all elements and types of rescues associated to the site risk profile.
• Carry out inspection of rescue equipment across the project to ensure all rescue equipment provided is maintained to a high standard and in a state of operational readiness, making any recommendations relevant to deficiencies found.
• Report all inspection, check, audit and surveillance findings through the project reporting tool.
• Assist with the planning and delivery of NNB emergency exercises to validate and demonstrate all aspects of the site's construction emergency arrangements.
• Represent the Principal Contractor at internal meetings including site coordination meetings, communities of practice and contractor meetings.
• Act as the Principal Contractors Technical Rescue Advisor and representative in the field.
• Support the development and deployment of rescue plans from a technical perspective.
• Check and assure competencies of rescue trained individuals.
• Maintain standards and champion Health and Safety.
• Develop and maintain local knowledge in complex areas to assist in understanding of risk profiles.
• Support, champion and have active roles in relevant communities of best practice.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Interpret plans and distilling emergency response and safety requirements throughout different build phases.
• Understanding of Emergency Response requirements for large industrial construction sites.
• Possess extensive fire, rescue and emergency response experience in a commercial environment.
• Understands and can advise on a range of emergency response and recovery equipment in conjunction with the Fire Service provider based on HPC Site.
• Ability to develop and produce emergency response plans from complex and multiple sources of information.
• Highly skilled in instruction and presentation skills and communicates effectively both orally and in writing.
• Maintains a confident and resilient attitude in highly challenging situations.
• Ability to build a wide network and works effectively with others.
• Understands, recalls, applies and adapts relevant information in an organised, safe and systematic way.
• Ability to provide strategic and tactical advice to multiple stakeholders understanding and acknowledging different stakeholder's needs.
• HAZMAT Spill and Environmental emergency response.
• Good organisational skills with practical and with the ability to manage several concurrent activities.
• A dynamic individual who is a team player that is pro-active and flexible and who can work on their own initiative across a broad range of issues to review compliance.

Desirable

• Knowledge of relevant regulations appropriate to role, Working at height, confined space etc.
• Knowledge of rescue equipment and techniques.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills with the ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to be self-motivating and manage own workload and priorities to meet the team's goals and targets.
• The ability to influence and to provide constructive challenge which is accepted by others.
• The ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Business continuity awareness.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Rescues from height
• Rescues from confined spaces
• Firefighting Rescue Command (Lvl 1)
• MCA 3P

Desirable

• Relevant business qualification, DMS, Tactical Command qualification, (lvl2)
• Emergency planning qualification
• Fire Safety qualification
• MCA 5P
• City & Guilds Level 4 Award in Plan, Manage and Review Legislation for Work in Confined Spaces