EWI - Global Talent Solutions
Ewi Talent Solutions is one of the leading On & Offshore Wind recruitment businesses based in the UK, Germany and USA.
We support projects across Europe, Asia and USA working with OEMs, EPCs & Sub-Contractors, Service Organisations, & Utility companies.
Health and Safety Advisor - Construction
Role description
Ensures that company complies with local Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation, company standards and Site requirements on a day to day basis. The person in this position also collaborates with company contractors in order to fulfill these HSE requirements.
The HSE Advisor is responsible for supporting the Environmental, Health&Safety Manager in Projects (EMiP) in implementing the project specific HSE and Emergency management Plans and executing activities on site in line with the requirements of the product specification and company system.
Job Responsibilities:
The HSE Advisor is companies health&safety and environmental representative on site and represents and promotes the Zero Harm Culture, being a role model for it.
- Be up to date with new legislation and maintaining a working knowledge of all Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect the wind energy industry.
- Be up to date with internal HSE procedures.
- Be a role model, lead by example.
- Complete all mandatory and role specific trainings before the project.
- Prepare the site by printing out HSE Plan, Risk Assessments, Emergency Response plan, environmental assessments.
- Establish and maintain HSE notice board where you post relevant HSE related communications according to HSE Plan.
- Get in contact with hospitals, fire and police departments at the beginning of the project in order to establish emergency preparedness with these emergency services.
- Participate in the ongoing development and improvement of Safety Performance, appraisal and modification of Safe Systems of Work, including sub-contractor evaluations, monitoring, and auditing
- Co-operate with t0he EMiP about updating the HSE plan and ensure that emergency preparedness plans are always up-to-date and that it is available on site.
- Ensure that all persons working on company part of the project know the parts of the EHS plan relevant to their work and that they are continually informed of the safety and emergency preparedness programs and issues.
- Finalize the HSE site induction material in order to cover every feature of the project.
- Facilitate site HSE inductions for personnel planning to work and visit site.
- Perform an HSE Talk at the beginning of every work shift as part of the daily briefing / morning meeting.
- Monitor training records to ensure that all personnel arriving on site have the relevant training and certification.
- Conduct and participate in HSE inspection tours of all work on site by using Sphera inspection module.
- Mandatory inspections and their frequency is described by Sphera inspection planner. / HSE plan
- Take part in coordination meetings and deliver HSE inspection reports according to HSE Plan. Coordinate
- HSE work with other contractors on-site. Follow up on corrective actions from inspections and coordination meetings.
- Monitor site conditions to ensure the construction site is at all times orderly and tidy and react quickly to remove potential sources of risk and pollution through regular attendance at all work sites (including inside Wind Turbine Generators).
- Make sure that proactive and reactive incident report ratio is above 90% on your project.
- Make sure number of proactive reports reached the defined number which been set at the beginning of the project, but this number has to be at least one per day on your project.
- Organize and support site management to complete emergency dirlls, according to emergency response minimum drill requirement.
- Establish a platform to gather observations from third party workers and customer.
- Monitor and support the implementation of Pre-Task plan and Permit to Work system.
- Assist in the creation of Task Risk Assessments when required and monitor to ensure that all non-routine works are carried out in accordance with the Task Risk Assessment
- Support incident investigations a required by the HSE organization.
- Monitor to ensure that corrective action identified in incident investigations are implemented on site.
- Make sure every site personal is aware of 10 Life Saving Rules and the possible breaches defined in regional consequence management procedure.
The personnel executing the Services shall have the following profiles, qualifications and skills:
- Experience of working as an HSE Advisor within the industrial industry, minimum 2 years
- Internationally recognized HSE certification and qualification required. (UKIE specific - Significant knowledge of CDM / PSCS regulations and Environmental requirements relating to construction projects with relevant EHS certification and qualification (i.e. NEBOSH Construction, NVQ5, NEBOSH Diploma, BSc Hons.)
- Excellent level of fitness - there will be regular climbing involved in monitoring WTG work teams.
- IT skills: min. medium knowledge in Microsoft Office
- Experience in leading, advising and coaching people on site (including Subcontractors)
- The ability to work within a process environment, process improvement and to promote a healthy and safe working environment.
- Experience in working abroad within a multicultural environment.
- Familiarity with Enablon
- Ability to perform inspections within turbines.
- Capable of overseeing lifting operations, hardstand areas, and general working areas.
- Proficient in handling administrative tasks.
- Ability to support and conduct training, such as Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) training
- Must speak fluent Latvian / English
If interested and suitable or would like further information regarding this position, please respond directly to Dionne Tricker at EWI with an updated CV to [email protected]
ewi is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. ewi is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.