Site HSE Advisor

Wood PLC; Scotland; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Wood PLC as an HSE Advisor/Safety Coach, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring a safe working environment at key project sites in Scotland. You will provide expert advice on health, safety, and environmental matters, promoting a proactive safety culture. This position demands relevant technical qualifications, a NEBOSH Certificate, and successful experience in safety management, offering competitive remuneration and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including public holidays

Generous contributory pension scheme

Private medical cover

4x base salary life insurance

Flexible benefits package

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Professional development plans

Qualifications

• Relevant technical or HSE qualification or equivalent experience.
• NEBOSH Certificate required for all applicants.
• Prior experience in a project site environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on health, safety and environmental matters.
• Engage in safety briefings and communicate HSE requirements.
• Participate in HSE incident investigations and reporting.

Skills

Communication

Planning and Organisational Skills

Commitment to Continuous Improvement

Influential Skills

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Relevant technical or HSE qualification

NVQ Level 4 IOSH

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a HSE Advisor / Safety Coach to support a high-profile client across two key projects in the North East of Scotland.

This role will predominately be split across two sites in the North East of Scotland, with occasional visits to the main Wood office in Aberdeen. Due to the nature of the role the individual must be able to travel to corresponding stes as required site on a daily basis, one is in Peterhead and the other is in Angus.

Occasional travel to other UK sites may be expected for Auditing or cover.

Please note applicants must be able to pass HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check.

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The Role

Reporting into the HSE Lead the HSE Advisor will be responsible for the provision of timely advice and guidance on all matters pertaining to Health, Safety and the Environment with respect to Legislation, Company Policy and Management System and Client requirements at the client sites thereby ensuring business risks are prevented and mitigated.

Due to the nature of the role the advisor will be expected to have a proactive approach to implementing and ensuring a positive and effective safety culture at the project sites. Working closely with the site reps and attending relevant safety briefings with the teams to understand the risks and support in mitigating against them.

This is an ideal opportunity for an individual with experience in site safety culture from either a construction or technical background or currently working in a similar HSE environment, who has a positive and proactive approach to ensuring a safe working environment within busy site activity.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Our Systems Integration (SI) team, work with a variety of high-profile clients across the energy sector. Delivering bespoke essential automation and control solutions that enable a safer and more efficient operation.

Within SI, we are architecting our clients' digital ecosystems to be inherently safe, cybersecure and operable. Within our teams we integrate client source systems across their IT, Operational Technology (OT) environments, securely pushing OT data into IT systems as a foundation for transformation.

We design and integrate operational technology to achieve business, production and operational goals.

Visit our web page to find out more about the exciting work we do: Automation & systems integration | Wood

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
• Energy Transition Academy; join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems - delivered by experts in their field

Responsibilities

The key objectives for this role are:

• Being a visible and active member of Safety Briefings ("Tool box talks") where able Ensuring the requirements stipulated in HSE interface documents/plans are communicated to all relevant personnel
• Liaising with and building relationship with Client HSE Reps and site Safety Reps Participating in HSE incident investigations and undertaking the appropriate reporting requirements
• Assist in coordinating internal and external audits
• Communicating the important messages from incidents and accidents as a part of the lessons learned process to all relevant parties
• Promoting and communicating lessons learned from within their own project; reporting deficiencies within project and recording all reportable issues within HSE systems
• Ensuring the project emergency response arrangements are in place and are communicated to all personnel; ensuring that project requirements align with Client requirements if these take precedence
• Participation at project HSE meetings, workshops and forums
• Supporting with the development of HSE improvement plans in line with Project, Client and SI strategic objectives
• Supporting with the development of the project HSE interface requirements; ensuring compliance with all existing interface documents and in the development of future plans
• Maintaining a system for monitoring HSE performance
• Promoting workforce involvement in all HSE activities, initiatives and programmes

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:

• Relevant technical or HSE qualification or qualified by experience with professional certification
• NEBOSH Certificate
• Previous practical experience in a technical role, or association with HSE role preferably at construction phase of a project
• Previous experience in a project site environment
• Commitment to HSE and in particular safety and assurance and the need to drive down incidents and accidents across the assigned projects
• Excellent communication and influential skills at all levels of the business both internally and externally
• Comfortable in both client and other 3rd party environments; able to build exemplary working relationship with client, subcontractors and internal stakeholders
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Effective/competent MS Office Suite User

Desirable

• NVQ Level 4 IOSH

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.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.