Onshore Senior HSE Advisor

Onshore Senior HSE Advisor

Duration: 02-Feb-2026 - 31-Jan-2027 (Options to extend)

Business Unit: QHSE

Location: Hitachi Construction Site, Main Road, B1113, Swardeston, NR14 8DU

Rotations: Monday-Friday, 10 hours a day

IR35: Inside IR35

The 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, and supports identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensures control measures are in place.

Line Reference: Head of Regional QHSE Advisors, Europe

Project Reference: Project QHSE Director & Project HSE Manager

• 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.
• Good technical - and people skills.
• Be clear, effective, and positive in verbal and written communication.
• Maintain successful cooperation / collaboration with the HSE stakeholders.
• High work ethic and excellent behaviour.
• Demonstrate efficient and timely collaboration internally /externally.
• Report reliable and timely HSE data.
• Demonstrate analytical and structured approach to daily workload.

It is generally expected that the advisor can apply advanced HSE skills to the position; has experience within the 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 good 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 i.e.:
  • 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)
• Planning, facilitation / participation of Safety meetings, Toolbox Talks, briefings, Safety Walks, inspections, HAZID/HAZOP workshops and employer cultural programmes and campaigns
• Review of HSE documentation, Risk Assessments & Method Statements (RAMS)
• Monitoring and assessment of internal/external HSE compliance and performance using the client incident reporting tool (Synergi) for reporting, trend analysis etc.
• Coordinate and report safety inspections, incident investigations, root cause analyses, and report derived observations, risks and lessons learnt.
• Effective 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
• Ad hoc advise 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 level required for the role.

• 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 Synergi
• Other deliverables as per Project (Q)
  HSE Risk management processes and AP QHSE Management framework

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…