EHS Advisor
Posted 1 week ago by Rubicon Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Scotland
Summary: The EHS Advisor role at Rubicon Consulting involves providing operational Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) support on-site in Scotland. The position focuses on ensuring compliance with safety regulations, conducting site inspections, managing EHS documentation, and facilitating training and inductions for personnel. The advisor will also monitor subcontractor compliance and report on safety incidents and observations. This is a 6-month rolling contract position aimed at enhancing site safety and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide operational EHS support to the Site Manager and site organization.
- Conduct site inspections and initiate fire risk assessments.
- Ensure availability of EHS project documentation and establish project EHS Safety Representatives.
- Support site management in ensuring understanding of Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) documentation.
- Oversee EHS site registrations and inductions for all personnel.
- Deliver project-specific EHS training and toolbox talks.
- Monitor compliance with site rules and escalate non-conformance issues.
- Implement safety communications and organize Safety Representative forums.
- Monitor subcontractor work against accepted RAMS and report non-compliance.
- Conduct routine checks and inspections from an EHS perspective.
- Manage safety observations and incident reporting.
- Facilitate emergency response drills and monitor emergency response equipment.
- Develop and issue weekly EHS Site Reports.
- Compile and archive EHS documentation generated from site activities.
Key Skills:
- Cert IOSH minimum.
- Post graduate qualification NEBOSH Diploma or Degree.
- Strong knowledge of EHS regulations and compliance.
- Experience in conducting site inspections and risk assessments.
- Ability to deliver training and manage inductions.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Experience in monitoring subcontractor compliance.
- Proficient in incident management and reporting tools.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: Scotland
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for an EHS Advisor on a 6 month rolling contract, based in Scotland.
Role Summary
Site EHS Advisors are responsible for providing primarily operational EHS support to the Site Manager and site organization.
- Site Inspection – support site management by ensuring all required notices are prominently posted. Initiate fire risk assessment of site premises and ensure outstanding or ad-hoc EHS equipment identified as not present is obtained
- Site Mobilisation - ensure Construction Phase Plan, TMP, ERP and RAMS/Permits are available at site locations and that EHS project folders and files are set up for use during project. Establish project EHS Safety Representatives and ensure minutes are published on notice boards and uploaded to project files.
- Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) - support site management to ensure all project resources have read and signed to verify their understanding of project documentation for SSoW. Identify non-routine tasks not covered by generic documentation, and provide technical EHS comments to task based risk assessments and method statements provided by contractors and sub-contractors.
- EHS Site Registrations/inductions - ensure induction process is followed for handling of all personnel working on the project, as well as any client requirements. Ensure all site inductions are performed before personnel commence work at site. Control, issue and track visitor/spare loaned PPE on site and maintain EHS folders on project files.
- Competencies – Ensure all persons arriving at site have valid certification, deliver the site induction to new persons on the project and record inductions in the project files. Deliver project specific EHS training/toolbox talks in terms of local legislative requirements and mitigation of significant risks.
- Site Rules - set-up and operate project initiatives and programs as per the Construction Phase Plan or any EHS improvement plan. Monitor compliance to site rules, escalate to site management where non-conformance is identified.
- Communications - implement safety communications to all applicable personnel on site, organise monthly Safety Representative forums and rollout general Safety Campaigns.
- EHS Management of Subcontractors - monitor and assess the subcontractor work against accepted RAMS, and report non-compliance to the Site Manager, EHS Head / EHSMiP
- Monitoring and Assessment - undertake routine and non routine checks and inspections to monitor the work operations from EHS perspective during the site mobilisation, construction, installation and commissioning aspects of the project. Ensure outputs from inspections are recorded in the project files. Report any identified unsafe acts or conditions to the site management team and log in reporting tools.
- Safety Observations and Incident Management - receive and review Safety Observation, verbal observations and other events. Enter safety observations and actions taken into the relevant reporting tools.
- Investigations - gather information for accidents, complete initial incident risk assessment within reporting tools and, with agreement with Site Management, escalate significant incidents to the PM, EHS Head / EHSMiP and site management team. Undertake root cause investigations where required. Complete various workflows in reporting tools to the required timescales. Feedback to workforce the outcomes of remedial protective and preventative actions taken.
- Emergency Response Arrangements - display emergency response plan details in site offices & welfare facilities, and ensure relevant contacts are communicated during the induction. Facilitate local emergency response drills for our activities and with our Subcontractor. Monitor provision of emergency response equipment on site.
- Reporting - develop and issue weekly EHS Site Report and immediately notify EHS incidents to the PM, SM and Client in accordance with project specific arrangements and timescales.
- EHS documentation records - compile and archive all relevant EHS documentation generated from the site activities in the site mobilisation, construction, installation and commissioning aspects of the project.
Requirements:
Cert IOSH minimum
Post graduate qualification NEBOSH Diploma or Degree
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