Job Description - HES Supervisor (26001FC)
Job Description
Description
Support the safe and compliant operation of the Milford Haven Terminal by providing day-to-day HES supervision, guidance and support to employees and contractors.
Promote a strong safety culture across the terminal, ensuring that Company Safe Work Practices, procedures and applicable legislation are understood and consistently applied.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day HES supervision and support to terminal employees and contractors, helping to maintain a safe operation and place of work.
- Promote compliance with Company policies, Safe Work Practices and applicable health, safety and environmental legislation, providing practical advice and guidance where required.
- Support the effective implementation of the terminal’s Permit to Work and Safe Work Practices, monitoring activities and auditing compliance to ensure work is carried out safely.
- Assist with risk assessments, task risk assessments and HAZOP studies as required, ensuring that appropriate controls are identified and implemented.
- Monitor contractor activities and work with employees and contractors to ensure appropriate HES standards are maintained throughout work undertaken at the terminal.
- Carry out regular workplace inspections and HES audits, identifying areas for improvement and following actions through to completion.
- Support the terminal in meeting the requirements of the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations, including maintaining appropriate documentation and contributing to safety reports and other regulatory submissions.
- Support regulatory visits, audits and meetings, providing relevant information and documentation and assisting with the timely completion of any resulting actions.
- Provide support on occupational hygiene matters, including routine monitoring programmes and the implementation of recommendations and improvement actions.
- Review incidents, accidents and near misses to identify immediate and underlying causes and ensure appropriate corrective actions are implemented.
- Participate in incident investigations and support more detailed investigations where required, using appropriate investigation methodologies such as TapRooT®.
- Monitor HES performance at the terminal and support initiatives to improve safety culture, operational discipline and environmental performance.
- Support emergency preparedness activities, including drills and exercises, and assist in identifying and implementing improvements arising from these activities.
- Maintain accurate HES records, reports and documentation and ensure actions arising from inspections, audits, incidents and regulatory matters are appropriately tracked and closed.
- Work closely with Terminal Management, operations, maintenance and other functions to ensure HES requirements are incorporated into day-to-day terminal activities.
- Provide coaching and guidance to employees and contractors, encouraging personal ownership of health, safety and environmental performance.
- Manage and develop the HES Specialist, ensuring they have the skills, knowledge and support required to effectively deliver health, environment and safety programmes and initiatives.
- Provide day-to-day supervision, mentoring and professional development for the HES Specialist, fostering continuous improvement and promoting best practice across HES activities
- Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering or similiar technical/science discipline or equivilent.
- NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety Management, or equivalent.
- NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, or equivalent.
- Good working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation applicable to terminal and fuel distribution operations.
- Understanding of COMAH requirements and their application within a major hazard environment.
- Experience of applying Safe Systems of Work, Permit to Work, risk assessment and contractor-management processes.
- Experience of carrying out workplace inspections and audits and following corrective actions through to completion.
- Ability to support and participate in incident and near-miss investigations.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively with employees, contractors and management.
- Good organisational and IT skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively.
- A practical, hands‑on approach and the ability to work independently whilst contributing effectively as part of the terminal team.
- NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety Management.
- NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.
- Occupational Hygiene qualification or relevant occupational hygiene experience.
- Membership of an appropriate professional health and safety or environmental body.
- Experience within the fuel distribution, oil and gas, petrochemical, terminal or other major-hazard industry.
- Knowledge of relevant industry codes of practice and standards.
- Training or practical experience in a recognised incident investigation methodology such as TapRooT®
About Valero
Valero Energy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels and other petrochemical products. Valero, a Fortune 50 company based in San Antonio, Texas, with approximately 10,000 employees, is an independent petroleum refiner and ethanol producer, and its assets include 15 petroleum refineries with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.1 million barrels per day and 14 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of approximately 1.73 billion gallons per year. The petroleum refineries are located in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and the ethanol plants are in the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. In addition, Valero owns all of the general partner and limited partner interests in Valero Energy Partners LP. Valero sells its products in both the wholesale rack and bulk markets, and approximately 7,400 outlets carry Valero's brand names in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland.
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