HSE Advisor
Working Location
Warsaw, Poland
Start date: 5th October 2026
End date: 31st January 2028
Work Style: Residential - Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day
Role Objective / Success Criteria / KPI
- Promote and provide professional HSE knowledge and guidance to managers, supervisors, employees, and contractors on safe work practices, safety standards, and legal regulations.
- Support the identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensure suitable control measures are established and maintained.
- Maintain current knowledge of HSE best practice and legal requirements and secure conformity through agreed processes and legal registers.
- Promote the development and effective use of management systems and a proactive, data-driven approach to risk management.
- Provide reliable and timely HSE data through an analytical, structured, and collaborative approach to daily workload.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive and promote a positive and proactive HSE culture through visible leadership, engagement, data, awareness, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned.
- Support the development, implementation, and use of HSE systems, procedures, instructions, contingency plans, and associated documentation.
- Support the HSE management system, QHSE process landscape, and global/local emergency response and crisis management arrangements.
- Liaise effectively with contractors and JV partners at management and site levels to establish and improve safety, health, and environmental culture.
- Participate in relevant site HSE meetings and internal and external audits.
- Support follow-up of findings from audits, inspections, and incident investigations and the implementation and closure of NCRs.
- Provide practical HSE advice to management, technicians, employees, client representatives, and contractors during daily work.
Tasks
- Promote proactive reporting and high-quality HSE data management to support data-driven risk management.
- Participate in audit and compliance checks aligned with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 55001.
- Report lost-time injuries to the HSE organisation in accordance with the defined process.
- Create and provide HSE reports for stakeholders and ensure data correctness and consistency across all reports.
- Facilitate regular HSE meetings with contractors and JV partners.
- Review Risk Assessed Method Statements and complete operational HSE assessments.
- Perform HSE inductions for Client Representatives and deliver HSE presentations at kick-off meetings.
- Complete HSE walk reports using the applicable Digital Inspection Tool and record incidents and proactive measures in Synergi.
- Maintain the validity of required safety and training certificates and proactively maintain the competence levels required for the role.
Deliverables
- Regular HSE meetings facilitated with contractors and JV partners.
- Reviewed Risk Assessed Method Statements (RAMS).
- Completed operational HSE assessments.
- HSE inductions for Client Representatives and presentations at project kick-off meetings.
- HSE walk reports produced using the Digital Inspection Tool.
- Incidents and proactive measures recorded accurately in Synergi.
- Additional deliverables completed in accordance with Project QHSE risk-management processes and the APQHSE Management Framework.
Project Documents
- HSE instructions, procedures, and contingency plans.
- HSE management system and QHSE process documentation.
- Emergency response and crisis management documentation.
- Audit, compliance-check, inspection, incident-investigation, and NCR records.
- HSE meeting records, RAMS reviews, operational assessments, and induction materials.
- HSE reports, Digital Inspection Tool records, and Synergi entries.
Decision Authority / Responsibility
- Act as an HSE subject-matter expert and contribute professional advice to operational and project decision-making.
- Provide recommendations based on personal understanding of the business and its interdependencies with other departments.
- Support HSE performance across the organisation while recognising that the QHSE function is not the exclusive owner of HSE.
- Escalate material HSE risks, non-conformities, incidents, and control-measure concerns through the appropriate project and QHSE channels.
Requirements
- Relevant academic or technical background and a recognised HSE qualification, including completed NEBOSH Level 3 or equivalent.
- Minimum three years of HSE work experience, ideally within onshore renewables or offshore wind-farm construction. Medior level.
- Working knowledge of fundamental HSE concepts, practices, procedures, theories, methods, techniques, and processes.
- Knowledge of root-cause analysis and incident investigation.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at different levels.
- Highly organised, analytical, and able to meet deadlines while collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong Microsoft Office capability, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; knowledge of Synergi is advantageous.
- Fluent English language skills and a current clean European driving licence.
- Experience working within a 50/50 joint venture and Polish language capability are appreciated.
- Experience delivering presentations, training courses, or training materials is desirable, and previous client experience is beneficial.
- Must comply with the client's training and medical requirements.
Key Interfaces to Other Functions / Stakeholders
- Head of Regional QHSE Advisors, Europe and Project QHSE Director.
- QHSE leadership managers and Project and Construction Managers.
- JV partners, Client Representatives, and contractors at site.
- Local regulators and authorities.
- Company employees, technicians, and other internal stakeholders.