HSE Advisor

Wood; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Remote work

Annual leave 33 days including public

Generous pension scheme

Private medical cover

Life insurance 4x base salary

Professional development

Job summary

Wood is seeking an experienced HSE Advisor to support its Consulting business unit, managing a diverse portfolio of UK projects. Based in Glasgow with hybrid work, you will travel to client sites and offices as required.

You will provide expert guidance on health, safety and environmental performance, ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and client requirements, and drive continuous improvement across project teams.

Qualifications

• Proven years of experience in a technical role with HSE experience
• Incident investigation qualification or practical experience
• NEBOSH Certificate with a recognised qualification in HSE auditing
• Strong knowledge of applicable HSE legislation, standards, and industry requirements

Responsibilities

• Provide expert HSE advice to management, ensuring compliance with legislative, company and client requirements
• Develop, communicate and monitor HSE objectives, initiatives and continual improvement plans
• Lead incident and accident investigations, including trend analysis and corrective actions
• Promote a positive safety culture through workforce engagement, training and awareness programmes
• Develop and monitor HSE KPIs, producing reports and insights for decision-making
• Build relationships with clients, contractors and internal stakeholders to drive HSE excellence across locations
• Coordinate HSE meetings, workshops, audits and site visits with effective communication of safety performance

Skills

HSE experience

Incident investigation

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Wind energy experience

IOSH qualification

Job description

Job Description

Wood is seeking an experienced HSE Advisor to support our Consulting business unit, managing a diverse portfolio of projects across the UK region.

Wood is seeking an experienced HSE Advisor to support our Consulting business unit, managing a diverse portfolio of projects across the UK region. Based in our Glasgow office, this role offers a hybrid working arrangement, with employees expected to attend the office three days per week. The successful candidate will also be expected to travel to client sites, project locations, and other company offices as required.

The Role

As an HSE Advisor, you will provide expert advice and guidance on all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental performance, ensuring compliance with legislation, company policies, management systems and client requirements. Working closely with managers, clients and project teams, you will support the delivery of a positive safety culture, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and help identify, prevent and mitigate business risks.

You will play a key role in monitoring HSE performance, leading incident investigations, analysing trends, developing improvement plans and KPIs, and promoting the sharing of lessons learned across projects. The role also involves conducting site visits, supporting audits and inspections, delivering inductions and training, coordinating emergency preparedness activities, and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the highest standards of HSE performance are maintained.

Our Clients and Projects

Wood’s Consulting business unit is a global, end-to-end, multi-sector specialist consultancy, trusted by clients to provide the innovative solutions and delivery excellence needed to solve today’s most complex challenges and maximise value across the asset life cycle. As the spearhead for the future of Wood and its role in a changing world, we are leading Wood’s strategic growth in energy transition and sustainable infrastructure development across a variety of end markets including oil & gas, hydrogen, power, renewables, chemicals, minerals and life sciences.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to high profile clients across the Energy Sector
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business
• Competitive renumeration package with regular reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), plus the potential for one additional ‘flex day’ per month. Further benefits include a generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

Responsibilities

Key objectives for this role are:

• Provide expert HSE advice and guidance to management, ensuring compliance with legislative, company and client requirements.
• Support the development, communication and monitoring of HSE objectives, initiatives and continuous improvement plans.
• Lead and support incident and accident investigations, including trend analysis, reporting and the implementation of corrective actions.
• Promote a positive safety culture through workforce engagement, lessons learned, training and awareness programmes.
• Develop and monitor HSE performance indicators (KPIs), producing reports and insights to support informed decision-making.
• Build effective relationships with clients, contractors and internal stakeholders to drive HSE excellence across projects and locations.
• Coordinate and participate in HSE meetings, workshops, audits and site visits, ensuring effective communication of safety performance and initiatives.
• Support office and site-based HSE activities, including inspections, inductions, risk management and contractor oversight.
• Ensure emergency response arrangements are maintained, tested and aligned with company and client requirements.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites, installations and company offices to monitor compliance and promote best practice.

Qualifications

Skills And Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected

• Proven years of experience in a technical role, with relevant HSE experience
• Incident investigation qualification or demonstrated practical experience
• NEBOSH Certificate with a recognised qualification in HSE auditing
• Sound knowledge of applicable HSE legislation, standards, and industry requirements

Desirable

• Experience or qualification in Wind and Clean Energy
• NVQ Level 4 / IOSH qualification
• Previous HSE experience within the Wind, Clean Energy, or related industry
• Familiarity with industry-specific regulations and Client HSE requirements

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.