HSE Manager (Client side) – Contract – West Wales

Location: West Wales

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading engineering business during a period of continued growth as they support the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Renewable Energy and Nuclear sectors. The role will be part of the Client team on an operational energy facility.

Role & Responsibilities

• Providing leadership and guidance on all HSE matters (process, regulatory and compliance) at every stage of the project development from FEED through demolition and construction.
• Responsible for setting managing key HSE procedures / systems, generating reports and statistics, conducting presentations and training and giving guidance and advice to management, employees, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Ensure that all Health, Safety, Security and Environmental requirements are maintained and continually seek ways to improve the site’s approach and performance with respect to HSE.
• Responsible for ensuring the company complies with all legal and moral responsibilities with respect to health, safety and the environment.
• Generating and maintaining HSE policies, procedures and documentation to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation.
• Conducting regular HSE site inspections and audits and collaborating with the department management and organisation to execute required actions.
• Managing HSE system of incident reporting, investigation and analysis, ensuring the site investigates and report all near misses, incidents and reportable accidents: internally to relevant persons, and externally to the relevant authorities with a key focus on continually learning and improving from the insight provided.
• Act as company focal point regarding all liaison with relevant regulatory bodies.
• Take ownership of the site’s emergency response processes, identify improvements and providing ongoing development and training for the site to ensure a robust and fit for purpose emergency response capability.
• Manage the management of change system, supporting line management as required.
• Plan, implement and coordinate actions to maintain ISO certification.
• Responsible for identification and timely submission of all applicable HSE permits required for the site operation.
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Occupational Health and Environment Regulations.
• Manage HSE KPIs, ensuring targets are achieved and reporting them for the board and senior management.
• Ensure that accidents and other HSE events are properly reported, investigated and all lessons learned implemented on time.
• Monitoring the office's "permit-to-work" system and the effectiveness of policies and procedures.

Key Skills & Knowledge

• Successful track record in leading the HSE function for large scale energy industry projects.
• Experience in dealing with people at various levels in an Organisation and the Regulatory bodies.
• Ideally degree qualified though other qualifications with suitable experience is fine.