Hseq Advisor

Role: Assurance Advisor – Decommissioning
Location: Shetland – (Accommodation, food and travel paid for)
Contract: 6 months+ (likely extension)
Day Rate: TBC

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Assurance Advisor to support the safe and compliant delivery of decommissioning operations. This role will play a key part in monitoring performance across multiple work fronts, driving risk management, ensuring lessons are captured and embedded, and supporting operational excellence through effective assurance activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct assurance visits and reviews across SVT decommissioning projects in line with the assurance plan and risk profile.
• Monitor site performance to identify where additional support or actions are required, escalating concerns to the Senior Advisor or Manager.
• Organise and support seven-day reviews following close calls, incidents, and accidents, ensuring full investigations are completed.
• Track compliance and assurance visit outcomes against the VMR (Visit Monitoring Register).
• Support sites in carrying out event investigations to establish root causes and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including Site Managers, Decommissioning Leads, and Contractors.
• Escalate unsafe acts or conditions and, where required, stop unsafe work.
• Support the Risk & Assurance team in communicating good practice and lessons learned across the decom programme.
• Assist with the delivery and tracking of improvement projects, ensuring actions are completed and embedded at site level.

Skills & Experience

• Strong background in health and safety, assurance, risk management or operational site supervision.
• Experience working in major hazard environments – oil & gas, refinery, petrochemical, or COMAH sites.
• Hands-on experience with incident investigation, root cause analysis, and assurance activities.
• Confidence to engage at all levels – from site workforce to senior leadership.
• Excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple assurance activities.
• Ability to make sound decisions under pressure, including escalating and stopping unsafe work.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent as a minimum).
• Experience in assurance, compliance, or safety management in operational environments.
• Knowledge of ISO standards (45001, 14001, 9001) beneficial.
• Offshore survival and medical preferred (BOSIET / OGUK).

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements