Job Title: Offshore Senior HSE Advisor - Mon - Fri
Location: Grimsby, UK
Start date: 15th June 2026
End date: 30th June 2027
Job Description
Role Objective
The Senior Offshore HSE advisor promotes and provides professional expert knowledge and guidance to managers, supervisors, employees and contractors on safe work practices, safety standards, and legal regulations. Supports identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensures control measures are in place. The Senior HSE advisor will provide support to a team of HSE advisors with daily tasks, planning of pro-active activities, and challenges that may arise. They will ensure that suitable and sufficient HSE support is provided to all stakeholders. The Senior HSE advisor will liaise closely with the project HSE Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain HSE expert knowledge on best practice and legal requirements.
- Secure HSE conformity using agreed processes and legal registers.
- Support and promote development and use of management systems.
- Proactive approach to risk management.
- Demonstrate technical and people skills.
- Be clear, effective, and positive in verbal and written communication.
- Maintain successful cooperation / collaboration with the HSE stakeholders.
- Exhibit a high work ethic and excellent behaviours.
- Demonstrate efficient and timely collaboration internally / externally.
- Report reliable and timely HSE data.
- Show analytical and structured approach to daily workload.
- Apply advanced HSE skills to the position.
- Has experience within subject area and knows fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures related to HSE, and knows how to routinely apply knowledge of theories, methods, techniques, and processes to scope of work.
- Drive and promote a proactive HSE culture through leading by example, cultural engagement, using data, raising awareness, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned (registration and implementation).
- Demonstrate and promote data-driven risk management through a proactive reporting culture and high-quality data management.
- Support ongoing development, implementation, and use of systems, procedures, instructions, and associated HSE documentation.
- Instructions, procedures, contingency plans
- HSE Management system (way we work) / QHSE process landscape
- Global/local Emergency Response / Crisis Management
- Audit/compliance check (ISO 9001/14001/45001/55001)
- Plan, facilitate, and participate in Safety meetings, Toolbox Talks, briefings, Safety Walks, inspections, HAZID/HAZOP workshops, and employer cultural programmes and campaigns.
- Review HSE documentation, Risk Assessments & Method Statements (RAMS).
- Monitor and assess internal/external HSE compliance and performance using incident reporting tool for reporting, trend analysis, etc.
- Coordinate and report safety inspections, incident investigations, root cause analyses, and report derived observations, risks, and lessons learnt.
- Liaison with contractors at management and site levels to establish and improve safety, health and environmental culture.
- Participate and contribute to all relevant site HSE meetings.
- Participate in audits (internal and external).
- Follow up on findings from HSE-related audits, inspections, incident investigation and support implementation of NCR's.
- Reporting LTIs to HSE organisation in accordance with the process.
- Provide ad hoc advice on questions regarding HSE in daily work (e.g. management, technicians, internal and external).
- Ensure the validity of own safety/training certificates as required.
- Be proactive in maintaining own competence levels required for the role.
Deliverables
- Facilitation of regular HSE meetings with Contractor and package representatives.
- Review of Risk Assessed Method Statements (RAMS).
- Operational HSE Assessment.
- Perform HSE induction of Clients Representatives.
- Perform HSE presentations at kick off meetings.
- HSE walk reports (e.g. using DIT).
- Entry of incidents and proactive measures in incident management tools.
- Other deliverables as per Project QHSE Risk management processes and QHSE Management framework.
Decision Authority
The QHSE function is not the exclusive owner of HSE and therefore does not hold the authority to determine HSE performance on its own. However, a HSE Advisor is a subject matter expert and can contribute to decision-making based on personal level of understanding of the business and the interdependencies with other departments.
Key Interfaces to Other Functions / Stakeholders
- QHSE leadership managers
- Project & Construction Managers
- Client representatives
- Local regulators/authorities
- Contractors at site
Requirements
- English language skills.
- Relevant academic or technical background.
- Minimum 5 years' work experience within HSE, ideally from onshore renewables/offshore windfarm construction.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills.
- IT literate (Microsoft Office package, knowledge of incident management tools is an advantage).
- Knowledge of root cause analysis and incident investigation.
- Demonstrable experience in dealing with 3rd party contractors in relation to HSE.
- Completed NEBOSH (minimum level 3) or similar recognized HSE qualification.
- Experience as a senior/lead HSE Advisor.
- Current clean UK driver's license.
Desirable qualifications/experience
- QHSE BSC, Diploma or equivalent level 6 qualification.
- NEBOSH or IEMA Environmental Management qualifications.
- Qualified/certified Auditor.
- Experienced in delivery of training courses/material.
- Prior relevant experience is beneficial.
- HUET, GWO Qualifications plus GWO Enhanced 1st Aid, medical and fitness for work certifications for offshore access in the UK.
Working conditions / Locations
- The role will primarily be onshore based, working from the site offices at Humberside airport.
- Frequent offshore visits are expected. Flexibility is required for occasional off-project site visits for company and supplier internal/external meetings, which may also be overseas.
- The normal shift pattern for onshore works is a 5-day week (Monday - Friday), 8-hour days.
- There may be some flexibility for occasional working from home if authorised by project management.
Location: Grimsby, UK
Start date: 15th June 2026
End date: 30th June 2027
Job Description
Role Objective
The Senior Offshore HSE advisor promotes and provides professional expert knowledge and guidance to managers, supervisors, employees and contractors on safe work practices, safety standards, and legal regulations. Supports identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensures control measures are in place. The Senior HSE advisor will provide support to a team of HSE advisors with daily tasks, planning of pro-active activities, and challenges that may arise. They will ensure that suitable and sufficient HSE support is provided to all stakeholders. The Senior HSE advisor will liaise closely with the project HSE Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain HSE expert knowledge on best practice and legal requirements.
- Secure HSE conformity using agreed processes and legal registers.
- Support and promote development and use of management systems.
- Proactive approach to risk management.
- Demonstrate technical and people skills.
- Be clear, effective, and positive in verbal and written communication.
- Maintain successful cooperation / collaboration with the HSE stakeholders.
- Exhibit a high work ethic and excellent behaviours.
- Demonstrate efficient and timely collaboration internally / externally.
- Report reliable and timely HSE data.
- Show analytical and structured approach to daily workload.
- Apply advanced HSE skills to the position.
- Has experience within subject area and knows fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures related to HSE, and knows how to routinely apply knowledge of theories, methods, techniques, and processes to scope of work.
- Drive and promote a proactive HSE culture through leading by example, cultural engagement, using data, raising awareness, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned (registration and implementation).
- Demonstrate and promote data-driven risk management through a proactive reporting culture and high-quality data management.
- Support ongoing development, implementation, and use of systems, procedures, instructions, and associated HSE documentation.
- Instructions, procedures, contingency plans
- HSE Management system (way we work) / QHSE process landscape
- Global/local Emergency Response / Crisis Management
- Audit/compliance check (ISO 9001/14001/45001/55001)
- Plan, facilitate, and participate in Safety meetings, Toolbox Talks, briefings, Safety Walks, inspections, HAZID/HAZOP workshops, and employer cultural programmes and campaigns.
- Review HSE documentation, Risk Assessments & Method Statements (RAMS).
- Monitor and assess internal/external HSE compliance and performance using incident reporting tool for reporting, trend analysis, etc.
- Coordinate and report safety inspections, incident investigations, root cause analyses, and report derived observations, risks, and lessons learnt.
- Liaison with contractors at management and site levels to establish and improve safety, health and environmental culture.
- Participate and contribute to all relevant site HSE meetings.
- Participate in audits (internal and external).
- Follow up on findings from HSE-related audits, inspections, incident investigation and support implementation of NCR's.
- Reporting LTIs to HSE organisation in accordance with the process.
- Provide ad hoc advice on questions regarding HSE in daily work (e.g. management, technicians, internal and external).
- Ensure the validity of own safety/training certificates as required.
- Be proactive in maintaining own competence levels required for the role.
Deliverables
- Facilitation of regular HSE meetings with Contractor and package representatives.
- Review of Risk Assessed Method Statements (RAMS).
- Operational HSE Assessment.
- Perform HSE induction of Clients Representatives.
- Perform HSE presentations at kick off meetings.
- HSE walk reports (e.g. using DIT).
- Entry of incidents and proactive measures in incident management tools.
- Other deliverables as per Project QHSE Risk management processes and QHSE Management framework.
Decision Authority
The QHSE function is not the exclusive owner of HSE and therefore does not hold the authority to determine HSE performance on its own. However, a HSE Advisor is a subject matter expert and can contribute to decision-making based on personal level of understanding of the business and the interdependencies with other departments.
Key Interfaces to Other Functions / Stakeholders
- QHSE leadership managers
- Project & Construction Managers
- Client representatives
- Local regulators/authorities
- Contractors at site
Requirements
- English language skills.
- Relevant academic or technical background.
- Minimum 5 years' work experience within HSE, ideally from onshore renewables/offshore windfarm construction.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong communication and presentation skills.
- IT literate (Microsoft Office package, knowledge of incident management tools is an advantage).
- Knowledge of root cause analysis and incident investigation.
- Demonstrable experience in dealing with 3rd party contractors in relation to HSE.
- Completed NEBOSH (minimum level 3) or similar recognized HSE qualification.
- Experience as a senior/lead HSE Advisor.
- Current clean UK driver's license.
Desirable qualifications/experience
- QHSE BSC, Diploma or equivalent level 6 qualification.
- NEBOSH or IEMA Environmental Management qualifications.
- Qualified/certified Auditor.
- Experienced in delivery of training courses/material.
- Prior relevant experience is beneficial.
- HUET, GWO Qualifications plus GWO Enhanced 1st Aid, medical and fitness for work certifications for offshore access in the UK.
Working conditions / Locations
- The role will primarily be onshore based, working from the site offices at Humberside airport.
- Frequent offshore visits are expected. Flexibility is required for occasional off-project site visits for company and supplier internal/external meetings, which may also be overseas.
- The normal shift pattern for onshore works is a 5-day week (Monday - Friday), 8-hour days.
- There may be some flexibility for occasional working from home if authorised by project management.