H&S Engineer (Foundations)

Morson Talent; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Travel opportunities

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company seeks an H&S Engineer (Foundations) to support their EA3 project based in London, Glasgow, or Lowestoft. The role involves ensuring health and safety compliance throughout the project lifecycle, conducting audits, and assisting with design assurance. Candidates should have a degree in engineering and preferably 5 years of offshore wind experience. They will work closely with construction teams and contractors to uphold safety standards, making this a critical role in ensuring operational efficiency and safety on site.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years offshore wind experience or ten years in plant engineering.
• Experience with coordinating large infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge in process safety and emergency planning.

Responsibilities

• Support Foundation package for the EA3 project and ensure safety compliance.
• Conduct audits at fabrication yards and offshore installations.
• Drive safety engineering processes through risk assessment and hazard analysis.

Skills

Health and Safety Engineering

Risk Assessment

Design Assurance

Incident Reporting

Communication

Education

Bachelors in Engineering (BSc/BEng)

NEBOSH General Certificate

Offshore Training (GWO/BOSIET)

Tools

Database systems (e.g. action tracker)

Job description

Scottish Power Renewables are looking for a H&S Engineer (Foundations) to join their EA3 project based in either London, Glasgow, or Lowestoft.

Role: H&S Engineer (Foundations)

Location: London, Glasgow, or Lowestoft/hybrid style working (offshore and overseas travel is also required)

Rate: Inside IR35, onshore and offshore rates applicable

Main Purpose of Job

The Foundation Health and Safety Engineer will be dedicated to supporting Foundation (FOU) package. The nature of this job function is Health and Safety Engineering driven which comprises both Technical/Design and Occupational Safety aspects this also includes the planning, setting up and reviewing of processes relevant for the manufacturing, shipping, installation and completion of the FOU package on the East Anglia THREE Project to ensure no plant/machinery/personnel safety issues.

This will be achieved by applying a process-oriented system which is achieved through inspections, testing, evaluation and quality and engineering safety tools and techniques to identify hazards, defects, or deviations from specifications. The aim is to manufacture and operate trouble-free machinery and plant also in reducing concerns and improving business processes so that all products are fault/hazard-free when delivered to the offshore site.

The Candidate will review drawings and verify those against (country of operation's) legislation and standards, and coordinate with assigned packages (this may include FOU, WTG and IAC) and associated Contractors as required to ensure that design risk assessment's content is to sound engineering safety methodologies for suitability to international and domestic regulations and company safety expectations.

Once Offshore Installation commences, the Health and Safety Engineer work with the Construction Team to discharge the Principal Contractor Duty, assuring that all method statements & risk assessments are safety acceptable ensuring trouble-free project cycle from topside landing through to commissioning and handover.

The Role is multi locational, initially primarily at either ScottishPower Offices in Glasgow, London or Lowestoft with regular trips to assigned FOU pre-assembly yards as required. Secondly, they may be required to travel offshore during Installation and Commissioning to maintain effective relationship with Offshore Operations and interact with the Construction Team and Site H&S presence.

Key Tasks

• Participate in Design Assurance, from an operator's perspective and verify that during project stages, meeting Safety requirements
• Validate all equipment to be placed on offshore assets, its documentation is complete and in compliance with statutory and national legislation
• Assist in the development a Safety Justification for Assets including identification of Major Accident Hazards and Safety Critical Elements
• Ensure Performance Standards are developed and refined during the design process.
• Drive engineering safety processes by applying methodologies as such hazard analysis, risk assessment.
• Assist in developing the safety, rescue and evacuation concept for the Offshore Substation against general windfarm set up
• Verify the Contractors fire protection concept, and in doubt, seek consult from fire protection expert or UK authorities.
• Comment and review installation and commissioning procedures with a focus on machine and plant safety.
• At Fabrication and pre-assembly yards, review processes and make safety-oriented suggestions so that the manufacture and loadout process is carried safely. As well as assuring that Iberdrola employees are not exposed to Fabrication yard hazards
• Conduct Audits at any assigned Fabrication yards (before load out), after installation, pre-commissioning and take over in conjunction with Project Fabrication yard teams.
• Participate in/run safety related workshops and assure documentation/equipment offshore is in compliance with UK legislation aiming to create a safe and sustainable work context.
• Contribute in developing East Anglia Hub's Construction Phase Plan and Emergency Response Plan including assisting in the planning and execution of necessary drills and exercises
• Set up an audit program so that the Asset manufacturer and its(sub-) contractors are audited, selected and qualified against industry best practice, legal and quality requirements, including on effective and documented follow-up actions
• Participate in Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 assurance related activities, both from a Principal Designer and Principal Contractor perspective.
• Provide constant H&S support to the Project site H&S and Construction Team through regular meetings, walk-downs and visits.
• Assess, comment and document that either free issued equipment and machinery added to the plant does not provide hazards e.g. avoidance of collision or asset damage unnecessary machine operator exposure Site Acceptance Testing requirements under statutory/legislative requirements
• Facilitate H&S project meetings with contractors attend project meetings and represent H&S interests towards all stakeholders
• Define and drive incident reporting requirements for assigned packages and in close liaison with Site H&S and Construction teams, Project H&S and Offshore H S Q Business
• Assist with accident and incident investigation affecting assigned Packages

Key Criteria

EDUCATION

Academic studies:

• The job holder should ideally be minimum educated to a Bachelors (BSc/BEng) degree. Alternatively a state certified engineering National Vocational Qualification will also be accepted having additionally undergone a time-service apprenticeship and suitable years of offshore experience. S/he has undergone education in Occupational Health & Safety, being minimum of NEBOSH General certificate qualified.
• Specialized training in:
• S/he has preferably undergone further education in Occupational Health & Safety.
• Offshore training (GWO/BOSIET/etc)

Other requirements (certifications and so forth)

• Training/courses in management or quality assurance would be beneficial
• Process industry or high hazard industries/ mechanical-plant engineering background would be beneficial
• Project management training
• Design hazard analysis
• Process Safety
• Emergency Planning
• Heavy lift experience
• Seminars at statutory institution attended which comprise subjects in technical/machine safety

EXPERIENCE

• Although minimum five years offshore wind experience is preferred, alternatively approximately 10 years' experience in plant engineering background is seen as equivalent
• Some coordination experience gained in a large infrastructure project
• Experience with database systems such as action tracker