Job Description

The Lead Site HSE adviser role is based in the UK in the Humber Region and will support all of the activities with HCCP project.

The Hydrogen and Carbon Capture UK (HCC UK) will undertake the blue and green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage projects in the North East of the UK. This will consist of building the carbon transport and storage business of the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) , building the power generating station and carbon capture plant for Net Zero Teesside (NZT) power, building the blue hydrogen project, H2Teesside, and the onshore Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline Project, which is 130 kilometer high pressure, dense phase carbon transportation pipeline and associated above ground infrastructure, design to support decarbonization of Humber Industrial Cluster.

The Humber Carbon Capture and Pipeline Project project which aims to develop a network to enable the decarbonization of a cluster of carbon intensive businesses on Humber, by 2032, and deliver the UK's first zero-carbon industrial cluster. NEP will be the UK's first commercial scale, full chain CCS project, and has the potential to capture up to 10 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide emissions per annum - making a significant contribution toward the UK reaching its net zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050.

The Site HSE adviser role is based in the UK in the Humber Region and will support all of the activities with HCCP project. The accountability of this role will include support for early work and FEED engineering activities with various contractors, including site ground investigation, intrusive and non-intrusive survey with an onsite workforce of potentially up to 100 personnel. The role will report to the H&S Manager in HCC UK and work closely with the other HSE teams to ensure an integrated and efficient approach.

This role commences as soon as the successful applicant is available to start work.

Responsibilities

Working alongside the H&S Manager and other H&S Advisers in the HSE team, the role will be accountable for:

• Managing the ground investigation and intrusive and non-intrusive survey contractor(s), setting the expected standard with the contractor(s) and working with the contractor(s) to ensure that the works meet the standard required by the contract.
• Liaising with contractors to define and agree the standards, systems and processes that will be applied to the design and execution of work .
• Liaising with the contractors to identify agreed approaches to managing higher hazard activity to eliminate, prevent and control incidents from occurring based on industry best practice and best technology available.
• Setting the culture and mindset on the site of high standards, open reporting and effective feedback and speaking up.
• Working with contractors to set up safe start of site investigation activities in Humber.
• Managing the performance of the contractor to ensure that the safety approach is pro-active not reactive. Ensuring that future activity is risk assessed with enough time to allow the risk assessments to influence the way that work is done.
• Working with line management to ensure that the line sets the standards and intervenes as and when required on safety.
• Setting the culture and mindset on the site of high standards, open reporting and effective feedback and speaking up.
• Establishing excellent relationships with site based contractors to ensure that work is undertaken to agreed standards, approaches and to comply with legal requirements.
• Overseeing contractor activity to verify that work is undertaken to the agreed standards and approaches.
• Intervening when deviations from agreed standards and approaches are identified.
• Having an excellent working relationship with the workforce to properly understand what's really happening at the site and that the workforce is valued, trusted and respected.

Qualifications

• Degree level education, although not necessarily HSE related.
• Membership of a safety related organization would be beneficial.
• NEBOSH Certificate, preferred level 6 diploma

Essential experience and job requirements

• A demonstrable track record of working with contractors to influence performance and outcomes of a safe working construction site.
• Experienced in land based EPCI contracts