Environmental Specialist

If interested, please email recruitment@wellsafesolutions.com with your cover letter and CV.

Location: Well-Safe Solutions, Aberdeen, though there may be a requirement to visit and work at other company locations or supplier’s premises as required. The postholder must be able to attend our global headquarters in Aberdeen. The position may be required to travel offshore in support of incident investigations, regulatory inspections and leadership engagement visits.

Job Type: Permanent

Reporting Line: The Environmental Specialist will report directly to the HSE Manager/HSEQ Director with a functional report into Wells Engineering Department.

Role: The Environmental Specialist will be responsible for the co-ordination and provision of day-to-day and medium-term environmental support for well decommissioning projects and operations and well-operatorship responsibilities.

Key responsibilities: The Environmental Specialist will be required to:

• Manage all safety and environmental related Permits, Licenses, Applications, Notification and Consents (PLANC) required for Well-Safe projects, Well Decommissioning activities and potential Well Operatorship activities.
• Manage all future potential well-operatorship responsibilities associated with environmental requirements.
• Provide company support in relation to environmental aspects associated with our business needs.
• Manage all Environmental associated activities across all Well Operations, Decommissioning and Well Operator workscopes.
• Perform the role of subject matter expert in (environmental) providing support, guidance and expertise to the Project Team and Offshore Teams to enhance and improve Environmental performance.
• Manage subcontractors involved in the delivery of PLANC requirements – where applicable.
• Interface with key stakeholders (including statutory authorities and key consultees) to support consent and license creation and submission.
• Manage consultancies for delivery of studies, modelling and surveys to support Environmental impact assessments.
• Providing specialist support to maintain ISO14001.
• Develop environmental targets in collaboration with wider WSS business.
• Providing specialist guidance as required to support ISO50001.

Key outcomes:

• Compliance with company management system, any contractual obligations related to the full well life cycle including well operatorship activities and PLANC reporting requirements.
• Close alignment on environmental considerations between Well-Safe Well Engineering Team, Operations Team and Assurance Team.
• Engaging all stakeholders in a project on implementation of relevant standards and management systems to ensure safe work practices and conditions are achieved.
• Developing strong regulatory relationships in support of our full Well Life Cycle activities including Well Operatorship.
• Ensuring Well Safe are compliant with all environmental regulatory requirements in all Well-Safe working environments.
• Upfront PLANC preparation and identification and leading all permits, consents, notifications and licence requirements.
• Behavioural safety and control of work emphasis around key risk activities.
• Collation and reporting of environmental data and performance for Regulatory & Corporate Reporting and Client requirements.
• Identify trends and propose improvements and solutions.
• Leading/ supporting on investigations that require environmental expertise.
• Providing environmental training / information to both on- and offshore staff.
• Ensuring company procedures are in place, maintained and applied across all activities to allow all relevant legislation to be complied with; and support the maintenance of a certified Safety and Environmental Management System.
• Managing waste, radioactive substances and sampling & analysis requirements for Well Operations activities.
• Providing guidance on environmental sensitivities, environmental impacts and the fate of emissions and discharges from Well-Safe activities to enable Well Operations activities to ensure and demonstrate that Well-Safe is an industry leader in minimising environmental impact of decommissioning activities.

Limits of authority: Full responsibility for all operational activities within the philosophies and constraints laid out in the job description. The company reserves the right to amend or change the activities listed, taking into account the job holder’s qualifications and experience to enable the business needs to be met.

Knowledge & Competency:

• Extensive experience of this type of role, be practical and have ability to communicate effectively and interact proactively with the rig and with Company and client management teams to achieve the best results.
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of Major Accident Hazard to identify environmental consequences associated with MAH and if potential environmental consequence could result in significant pollution / MEI.
• Significant experience gained from working within a Well Operator Environment.
• Experience of decommissioning activities.
• Considerable experience with environmental licensing and permit requirements in relation to full well life cycle activities including Well Operatorship.
• Experience of working directly with the regulators in relation to environmental activities.
• Understanding Accident and Incident investigation principles with certified route cause analysis (RCA).
• Valid OGUK Medical and BOSIET/FOET.
• Membership of recognised body e.g. IEMA.
• Extensive Oil and Gas and related environmental experience.
• Ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal direction.
• Experience training personnel one-on-one or in group environments.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple and conflicting priorities.
• Experience of utilising continuous improvement tools.