HSE Advisor - South China

Role Purpose:

To provide specialist HSE business support to minimising risks to colleagues and the business. Ensure hazard identification, risk assessment, and mitigation and controls, are appropriate to the risk, achievable, and effectively implemented. Use experience and knowledge (both own and that of our clients and industry/sector bodies) ensuring complex/demanding situations are managed effectively to eliminate harm

Job Responsibilities:

1. Support and advise on HSE hazard identification, risk assessment and subsequent mitigations and controls development to minimise risk and assure the safety of colleagues and the business.
2. Support HSE Business Partners in developing and implementing HSE, processes, and risk management frameworks
3. Ensure collaboration within HSE Advisor community across different countries to ensure consistent safety standards and address local regulatory requirements, drive safety culture across diverse countries.
4. Ensure that activities are carried out in line with internal procedures, regulations, industry standards or contractual requirements relating to HSE, through effective monitoring, inspection and audits of activity.
5. Pursue Continuous Professional Development and maintain a high degree of discipline knowledge and awareness.
6. Mentor/coach people leaders in operations ensuring best practice health, safety, and environmental leadership practices are observed.
7. Horizon scan both internal and external changes, including the resolution of operational concerns, to ensure a proactive and agile approach to problem solving delivering effective, efficient and innovative resolutions to concerns, building relationships with internal and external HSE client representatives, regulators, and industry advisory groups to support change.
8. Ensure implementation of HSE programmes and changes are planned, evaluated, and processed in accordance with local business requirements and agreed deadlines.
9.To ensure compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements, the LR HSE management system, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 are maintained.
10. Support the investigation of HSE events and make recommendations for corrective action and ensure actions are addressed on time that learning from experience is effectively communicated to prevent further harm.
11. Responsible for reviewing HSE performance by using insights to proactively support continual improvement activities, ensuring HSE programmes remain effective at minimising risk, including identifying and implementing learning from experience communications (both from internal and external sources).
12. Support Incident Response Teams and Critical Event Management Team to manage events ensuring HSE is actively considered in decision making.

Job Requirements:

1. A degree or equivalent from a tertiary organisation recognised by Lloyd’s Register
2. Graduate in a numerical related discipline with sufficient practical ‘hands-on’ experience of safety, occupational health and environment, preferably across multiple countries/cultures, commanding respect from operational/commercial teams.
3. Experience in HSE actively involved in a high-risk industry.
4. Membership of a relevant professional body such as IOSH, The American Society of Safety Engineers or the American Industrial Hygiene Association etc., working towards becoming a certified safety professional.
5. Able to work with ambiguity across diverse and ever-changing functions, operating effectively within matrix reporting lines to support the achievement of key performance indicators and goals.
6. Fluent written and spoken English with ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders
7. Use own initiative able to prioritise and work on multiple tasks while adhering to tight deadlines.
8. Able to work as part of a team to contribute to achieving departmental/business objectives.
9. Expertise in planning, evaluating, and processing the implementation of HSE programmes and changes in accordance with business requirements and deadlines.
10. Strong understanding of compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements, including experience with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001.
11. Experience in investigating HSE events, making recommendations for corrective actions, and ensuring timely resolution of issues to prevent future incidents.
12. Analytical skills to review HSE performance, using insights to proactively support continual improvement and ensure the effectiveness of HSE programmes.
13. Experience in supporting Incident Response Teams and Critical Event Management Teams to ensure HSE considerations are integrated into decision-making during critical events.