HSE Manager - Assets

Our Operator client is currently recruiting for the position of HSE Manager - Operations based in Aberdeen. This will be a 12-month PAYE contract role. It is a full time position based in their Aberdeen office and there will be travel required to all assets, onshore and offshore.
 
Roles & Responsibilities:

• Enable delivery of HSE requirements to ensure (1) Understanding of asset/installation/site HSE risks (2) Effective management of the barriers  and (3) effective assurance of barrier performance
• Promote a proactive HSE culture through regular site visits, engagement with the workforce, supervision and leadership
• Responsibility for the planning and management of asset HSE resources and budget to ensure that suitable and sufficient resources are available to meet the requirements of the HSE Management System, regulatory requirements and improvement plans
• Propose HSE objectives, plans and targets that provide line of sight to Company’s metrics and goals
• Analyses leading and lagging performance indicators to identify and prioritise performance improvement opportunities
• Support the planning, development and Implementation of HSE improvement plans
• Promote, monitor and test for compliance with company standards and legislation.
• Engage in proactive and regular engagement with relevant regulatory authorities.
• Assess asset regulatory compliance performance and opportunities for improvement, providing feedback to the wider asset leadership team
• Provide leadership to ensure audits, inspections and site visits are prepared and executed in line with the plan and the Company’s Standards. Ensure learnings are shared with relevant stakeholder and lessons applied. Establish effective arrangements for the planning and preparation of regulatory inspections
• Ensure timely and thorough incident investigations and neccessary follow up is conducted in line with the Company’s Standards, with particular focus given to serious and high potential events.
• Promotes a positive Incident Free Workplace culture by driving HSES (including key focus on Major Accidents and Hazards (MAH))and process safety performance and regulatory compliance through adherence to company standards & procedures, including the Company’s CMAPP and HSES Policy.
• Perform nominated emergency response role/duties and maintain the necessary competencies to perform these duties.
• Establishes and maintains a working culture in line with the Company’s core values.
• Is familiar with the Company’s Leadership Expectations – clearly demonstrates their own capability in line with these.
• Lives by the Company’s safety principles and is passionate about having an incident-free workplace.
• Builds and leads a high-performing team accountable for team performance and delivery as well as their wellbeing and development.
• Leads and instils technical and professional excellence, ensuring capabilities remain in line with industry/discipline/function development and best practice.
• Communicates and influences with impact, clarity and conviction, leading effective change and providing regular and appropriate team, business and organisation updates. Consults and listens, taking on ideas, building rapport and enabling effective two-way communication. 
• Leads the development and management of the workforce and resourcing plan effectively, within the strategic planning cycle, over a medium/long-term time horizon, ensuring employee wellbeing (holidays, working time, etc.) is given due consideration alongside business and cost requirements. Manage shorter-term issues as they arise.
• Is familiar with, communicates, supports, applies and adheres to the Company’s people policies and procedures.
• Emphasises the importance of environmental, social and governance criteria. Proactively works towards making the organisation socially responsible in all aspects of its business.
• Leads the performance management process across their team; is clear on the strategic objectives of the organisation and communicates/clarifies the role their team plays in their delivery; ensures every employee has clear goals and objectives and are provided with continuous feedback in a timely, honest and constructive manner.
• Role models and coaches their managers and teams in living the Values, demonstration of high standards of behaviour, performance management and employee development. Sponsors skills, competency and career development, in line with the organisation’s policy and process. Encourages development through lateral moves as well as challenging assignments and progression, fostering breadth and depth of skill and competency development.
• Recognises bias, conscious or unconscious and actively works to eliminate such bias from their own and others’ approach to their work and colleagues.
• Actively seeks to encourage and employ diversity in their team and manages an inclusive workplace, bringing alternative perspectives, opinions and thinking to all aspects of their work.
• Eliminates the use of everyday language that may leave others feeling excluded or discriminated against. Actively leads and encourages discussion, collaboration and positive actions on inclusion within their teams and amongst peers, which persuades and brings positive change when needed.
• Creates equal opportunities for all and treats people equally and with consideration of protected characteristics.
• Embeds the Company’s Leadership Expectations into their everyday work and interactions, continuously learning and developing these competencies for themselves as well as their teams.
• A decisive leader who sets high standards and drives performance to deliver through their teams. Is agile, flexible, open to challenge and able to challenge appropriately.
• Great communication skills that informs/shares knowledge clearly and unambiguously, influences and persuades in a constructive way, sometimes influencing a change in the course of conversations, to gain agreement and collaboration.
• Demonstrable experience in complex and ambiguous situations – able to adopt a calm and composed mentality that promotes proactivity and deals with disagreements, problems and issues in an open and constructive manner.
• Leads and promotes organisational change; makes collaborative, high-quality and timely decisions; takes informed risks and learns from failures.
• Builds and maintains a professional network, leads and contributes credibly to industry conversations on important issues; seeks to create and maintain good relationships internally and externally across various organisational levels; puts other people at ease and quickly builds rapport.
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge in systematic management of HSE with particular focus on Major Accidents and Hazards
• Detailed working knowledge and understanding of UK HSE legislative and regulatory requirements particularly in relation to Major Accidents and Hazards
• Track record of cross – functional collaboration and working across multiple sites

 
Experience & Qualifications

• Degree qualified in a suitable technical subject or HSE related Diploma (NEBOSH)
• Professional membership of relevant Institute.
• Professional experience in managing teams in a high hazard environment or industry
• Experience of interacting with regulatory authorities
• Ability to travel offshore
• ISO lead auditor or equivalent

 
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/080778


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.