HSE Professional - Onshore Service SOS

Professional | Full-Time | Quality, Health, Safety and Environment

Are you passionate about Health, Safety & Environmental policies and procedures and making the workplace better? As an HSE Professional you will work on ensuring Vestas remains a safe place to work, focused on the North of Scotland. 

Manufacturing and Global Procurement > COO NCE > Onshore Nordic
The Service Operational Support (SOS)department act as regional Service partner for the Vestas Service Onshore North & West organization, with the execution of complex tasks and tasks benefitting from consolidation on NW level, with the goal to continuously improve and support the execution of the service strategy. Our main focus areas are Special Task, Serious Incidents, Projects, Commissioning, Performance Optimization, Subcontractor management and technical & commercial planning. 
As the HSE Professional within this team you will be responsible for maintaining high levels of H&S across the Nordics. 

Responsibilities
Ensure that Health, Safety & Environmental policies and procedures are communicated and followed within the team working with SOS Projects on onshore windfarms across the N/W region. As a HSE Professional, you will provide support to the SOS management team at a senior level, closely support site/facility supervisors during Toolbox Talks, internal and external HSE inspections and meetings. Act as a safety role model, encourage and recognize others completing safe acts, and intervene when unsafe acts are being practiced. It will be your responsibility to assist with the reporting and investigation of Hazardous observations, near misses and incidents and support the management team in handling these incident investigations and ensuring the necessary corrective/preventive actions are implemented.
Your tasks will include the following:

Collect, validate, report, and respond to HSE data

Ensure legal compliance to country legislation, provide support & advice to local management on HSE matters

Review and revise documents in support of the HSE Management System

Ensure close collaboration with our customers and other stakeholders on HSE matters

Ensure that Emergency Response Plans are established and maintained across the portfolio, together with ensuring that emergency drills are performed according to our management system

Continuously review the company Safe Systems of Work to deliver continuous improvement

Facilitate the safety culture at site (local initiatives)

Qualifications
We are looking for someone who either has an HSE profile and are interested in joining the onshore wind industry, or you have experience from the onshore wind industry and are interested in HSE. We except you: 

Hold relevant education within HSE, NEBOSH or IOSH, or be willing to work towards

Have at least 3 years of experience from a similar HSE role within wind power / energy in onshore environment and experience with HSE policies and processes

Have demonstrable trade experience from an electrical or mechanical discipline

Have good IT skills, especially Microsoft Office applications, and the ability to quickly understand new systems

Have knowledge of Risk Assessment practices, COSHH and the implementation of appropriate control processes

Have experience of working at height

Have a full clean driving licence

Competencies

Good communication skills are required. Ability to organize and prioritize tasks, to work freely, adapt to new and sometimes complex situations

Solid interpersonal, computer, presentation, and collaboration skills. Flexibility to travel to sites across the UK and Republic of Ireland is required

Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Are enthusiastic and can work with limited supervision

Able to coach teams to create an improved safety culture rather than just impose safety rules

Good commitment to quality, good time management and reporting skills

Be physically fit, to be able to climb wind turbines, conduct Working practice reviews and deliver Emergency Response Safety training

What we offer
We offer the chance to work with a leader in industry, with the training and development to match. Every day will be different, and it will give you a chance to work with some skilled colleagues both locally and further afield. We offer an attractive benefits package that will include private healthcare, flexible working environment, pension scheme, days annual holiday plus statutory bank holidays.

Additional information
Work location: DK, SE, UK, FI any N/W region countries 
This position requires an approximately split of % travel and % office work
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis however, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Please be advised to apply on or before 1st August 4