HazMat Compliance Senior Advisor

Weatherford have a great opportunity for an experienced Haz Mat Compliance Senior Advisor to join the team in Aberdeen.

The Haz Mat (Hazardous Materials) Compliance Senior Advisor role is responsible for the execution of Weatherford’s global hazmat strategy, with the objective of preventing and mitigating risks to safety, health and the environment within their facility of responsibility. The Haz Mat Compliance Senior Advisor also supports, advises, and monitors the implementation and compliance to the global standards, Radiation, Explosive, and Primary Lithium Battery Protection Programs.

This role is responsible for reviewing local procedures and work instructions to ensure they promote practices that include the safe usage of radioactive material in accordance with the philosophy of keeping exposure of employees and members of the public as low as reasonably achievable. The Haz Mat Compliance Senior Advisor advises on security control measures applicable to aspects of the hazmat protection program (handling, storage and transportation).

Acts as the facility custodian of regulatory required paperwork.

• Maintains safety and service quality as first priorities when working across all areas of the business.
• Where required in the case of non-conformance, exercises ‘Stop Work Authority’ to suspend operations involving radioactive materials, lithium batteries and explosives.
• Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activities are carried out ethically and in compliance with company policies, relevant laws, regulations, standards and industry practices.
• Supports the Legal, Facilities, Compliance and Assurance departments as required.
• Ensure compliance with any additional trade compliance laws for specific radioactive material or device that has dual use purposes (ex. Pulsed Neutron Generator).

• Support the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) to maintain, renew, and update all facility specific licenses and permits pertaining to the use of any hazardous materials with full traceability.
• Ensure the radioactive materials (RAM) source file is available for all RAM in the facility, as per standard requirement with full traceability from cradle to grave.
• Maintain the record for all hazmat employee lists related to the facility of responsibility, ensuring full traceability and control of the hazmat keys, access cards and/or fingerprints.
• Ensure RAM shields or other hazmat transportation containers have the correct visible marking and labelling.
• Ensure the facility has enough calibrated and functioning survey meters capable of detecting the type of radiation used or handled within the facility and any field operations.
• Administer the radiation dosimeter program for the facility of responsibility, including setting the local procedure for handling female radiation workers, per the local regulations.
• Conduct local hazmat audit in the facility covering all applicable hazardous materials.
• Ensuring the completion of a Root Cause Analysis for all hazmat incidents in facility of responsibility.
• Act as the facility contact for all international imports and exports for the facility of responsibility, developing facility specific hazmat shipping procedure. This includes handling the preparation of related shipping documentation and the packaging process in relation to the import and export of hazardous materials, as well as completing the dangerous goods transportation paperwork (Signature required to be IATA /IMDG certified).
• Ensures the vendors for providing services and products for hazardous materials are vetted using Weatherford approved standards for approved supplier.
• Ensure that the licensed hazardous material (radiation and explosives) in the company’s possession or used by the company is limited to those specified in the license.
• Conduct regular field site visits to validate compliance to company operational excellence requirements, as well as required to inspect and confirm the suitability of explosives magazines, radiation bunkers, and lithium battery storage facilities as per local legislation and Weatherford standards.
• Ensure proper…