Health & Safety Advisor (Onshore)

Orion Engineering Services Limited; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services provider in the UK is seeking a Health & Safety Advisor for a contract in Aberdeen. This role requires strong expertise in UK OHS legislation and entails liaising with cross-functional teams to enhance health and safety performance. The successful candidate will be responsible for the compliance of OHS standards, coordination of audits, and incident reviews, with the opportunity for occasional offshore travel. This position offers hybrid working and aims to foster a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with UK Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
• Willingness to for offshore activities.
• Experience in conducting safety audits.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and improve OHS performance for the assets.
• Act as a communication focal point for offshore and onshore teams.
• Monitor OHS compliance and performance.

Skills

Fluent in English

Experience in auditing

Incident investigation

Knowledge of UK OHS legislation

Job description

Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Health & Safety Advisor based in Aberdeen. This is a 6-month PAYE contract role offering hybrid working. Occasional offshore travel is required.

Function

• Liaise with the asset and corporate management team as well as external organisations to develop and execute appropriate plans to manage, monitor and improve OHS performance.
• Act as company's onshore focal point for communication with the offshore Safety Ad-visors, Medics and Safety Representatives; asset team focal point for all OHS queries (OQs).
• Coordinate independent induction and advice to FPSO crew and contractors including ISSoW, CoSHH, radiation and noise.
• Maintain a register of OHS aspects, impacts and risks for each operating asset.
• Ensure the OHS compliance register is kept up-to-date and addressed by operations.
• Ensure that contracted OHS services are scoped, guided and the results interpreted and shared with the asset team. Liaise with external organisations.
• Coordinate incident review and close-out cycle.
• Coordinate base asset Emergency Response support activities including Emergency Response exercise annual plan creation, execution and lessons learned follow-up, as well as rota training and competence assurance.
• Keep track of changes of relevant OHS developments and advice on implications and ensure that company standards are compliant.
• Review RM's (modifications) on changes that could influence OHS risks.
• Participate in Risks Assessments related to OHS.
• Contribute to the yearly corporate audit plan. Conduct OHS audits.
• Monitor and report OHS performance for on- and offshore facilities. Coordinate monthly HSE KPI reporting of the assets and participate client HSE meetings.
• Develop and facilitate the implementation of yearly KPI's and OHS improvement targets for on- and offshore facilities.
• Report OHS performance to line manager and asset manager.
• Liaise on a day-to-day basis with the HSE team in Aberdeen

Requirements

• Fluent in English both written and spoken.
• Willingness to perform activities abroad (onshore, offshore, vendors or with clients).
• Visit assets on a regular basis.
• Experience with UK OHS legislation and requirements of main regulatory bodies.
• Experience in auditing and incident investigation (Kelvin Topset methodology).

Contract position

If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/080382.

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion

As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.