Marine Safety Advisor

Base Location: Aberdeen and Inverness

Salary: £50,100 - £75,100 + car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent  | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

At SSE, Safety is our number one value. We live by our licence, if it's not safe, we don't do it. We focus on ensuring that we have no injuries or serious environmental incidents and that people are healthy and happy at work.

We are looking for a Marine Safety Advisor to drive compliance and safety culture across our complex marine projects. From leading HAZIDs to auditing vessels and trenching operations, you will ensure that our offshore contractors adhere to the highest safety standards, mitigating risk and ensuring the successful delivery of SSEN’s subsea network.

You will

• Assist Projects and Marine teams with a range of safety advice and support to ensure the successful implementation of the Safety Management System.
• Positively engage with Contract Partners both remotely and on worksites to monitor performance and compliance to help deliver an incident free Project.
• Develop and review SSEN and Contract Partner documentation to ensure timely and safe vessel mobilisations and ongoing performance.
• Attend and actively participate in risk reviews, such as HAZIDs and HIRAs, to provide marine safety expertise in eliminating / reducing risk.
• Provide positive engagement and support to ensure remedial actions arising from audits and investigations are implemented; ensuring incidents are reviewed, recorded, communicated and reported at the correct levels, with actions closed out.

The role shall be predominantly office based with regular, often ad hoc, short duration travel to offshore worksites both in port and in the field.  

You have

• Extensive safety experience in offshore construction operations, with sound knowledge of regulations and standards associated with marine and offshore construction activities (e.g. cable lay, diving, trenching).
• Professional internal and external stakeholder management skills to drive cross business collaboration to build a high performing, commercially and customer focused safety culture.
• A NEBOSH or equivalent qualification in Occupational Safety relevant and be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge through experience. You will also have
• detailed knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment and application to the offshore sector
• A full UK driving licence is essential due to the level of mobility required in this role,. Valid Basic Offshore Survival Induction and Emergency Training (or equivalent) and Offshore Medical is desirable.

About our Business

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the communities it serves. Home to some of the UK's greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission is playing a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around £10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. please contact Andy on andrew.torrance@sse.com / 01738 275370 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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