Offshore Health & SAfety Advisor

Morson Talent; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Offshore HSE Advisors for a long-term contract. This role involves providing health and safety support across various offshore construction sites, ensuring compliance with best practices and regulations. The successful candidates will conduct inspections, engage with contractors, and drive safety initiatives to foster a culture of safety. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your expertise will directly impact the success of offshore projects. If you're passionate about health and safety and thrive in challenging settings, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Offshore Construction Health and Safety Best Practices.
• Experience in mentoring personnel on HS improvement.
• Ability to generate Risk Assessments for site activities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct audits/inspections across offshore construction locations.
• Engage with Tier 1 Contractors’ Site and Health and Safety Management.
• Support documentation review of Contractor activities.

Skills

Offshore Health and Safety Best Practices

Risk Management

Incident Investigation

Safety Campaigns

Cultural Safety Improvement

Education

GWO Certification

Off-Shore Medical Certification

HUET Certification

GWO First Aid at Work Certification

Job description

Our client Scottish Power Renewables are looking for x 2 Offshore HSE Advisors on a long-term contract basis, with base location as Lowestoft.

This is working 7 days per week (2 weeks on and 2 weeks off) - 12 hour days.

Main Purpose of the Job

The Offshore Health and Safety (HS) Advisor provides HS support to the various Offshore Construction
Teams and Packages focused at numerous Offshore Construction locations related to the Project. The
Individual will provide specialist HS support, advice and guidance to site/package personnel as well as
interact with the Contractor Vessel, Site and HS Management teams and other external / internal
stakeholders.
The Offshore HS Advisor will conduct audits/inspections across a range of offshore Construction
Locations, related to the Project and feedback observations, actions and opportunities for improvements
to drive HS best practice across Project activities. The role will also require the individual to participate in
behavioural safety initiatives, inventive schemes, campaigns, and other related activities

Key Tasks

Travel to and support Offshore Construction locations (predominantly vessels / Offshore
Substation) across East Anglia Three in relation to the Project. This will be predominantly
proactive Inspections/Audits, Incident investigations. These locations are where the Offshore
Windfarm is being installed.
• Support Offshore Construction/enabling locations, such as marshalling facilities, as required.
• Engage, in person and via TEAMS with Tier 1 Contractors’ Site and Health and Safety
Management team as well as Tier 2 subcontractor management structures.
• Support Offshore Construction Teams Offshore as well as office-based Engineering /
Management personnel in matters of HS such as Risk management/assessment, Document
reviews and Cultural Safety improvement.
• Support documentation review of Contractor activities across work-scope

Key Criteria

Detailed knowledge of Offshore Construction Health and Safety Best Practices, and Marine
Operations.
• Understanding of the core the methodology of Offshore Turbine/Foundation, Converter /
Substation and Export Cable Installation such as Installation, Heavy Lifts, Cable installation, HV /
LV Commissioning.
Ability to critically review Contractor methodology and planning documentation from a HS
perspective to ensure safe working practices are applied.
• Ability to influence personnel across a range of cultures, experiences, and geographic locations
to drive adoption of HS best practice
• Ability to internalise Project / Business requirements and standards to hold contractors to a high
HS standard
• Experience in mentoring personnel (both internal and external) on HS improvement do drive
cultural change.
• Experience in working with personnel at a senior level within Contractor organisations
• Understanding of and ability to generate Risk Assessments to support internal personnel sitebased
activities.
• Experience in rolling out Safety Campaigns to site locations, presenting to large groups of
personnel
• Experience in working in a remote environment from site locations, communicating with
personnel across other office / site locations via TEAMS.
• Ability to continually and effectively promote:
o safety leadership within the project teams by making the appropriate interventions to
prevent unsafe situations or unacceptable risks being taken.
o Safety Management as an integrated line management priority for all project planning
and execution and
o Safety relentlessly as a value, challenging traditional thinking where appropriate
• Regimented focus to site visits and conducting audit / inspections
• Ability to plan multiple sequential trips to site locations to deliver oversight requirements to
relevant project stakeholders
• Coordinate with other internal stakeholders to ensure a unified approach to site access from
SPR personnel.
• Ability to regulate workload and work independent of direct management supervision
• Manage time to ensure all internal stakeholders are supported effectively, including attending
online or in person meetings, workshops and site visits as required

Certifications to be maintained

GWO
Off-Shore Medical
HUET
GWO First Aid at Work