Consenting & H&S Lead

Job Description

Wood are seeking a Consenting and Heath & Safety Lead to work on the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline project. This role can be based UK wide.

The Consenting and H&S Lead role is based in the UK in Humber region and will support all HCCP project activities, including supporting early works and FEED engineering activities with various contractors. Ground investigations, comprising intrusive and non-intrusive survey with an onsite workforce of potentially up to 100 personnel will be commencing imminently. The role will work closely with the other teams working on NEP project, in particular the NEP Expansion team, to ensure an integrated and efficient approach.

This role will manage a Senior E&S Advisor.

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Responsibilities

• The role will be accountable and responsible for obtaining approval of key regulatory permits and consents for the project:
• One of the key accountabilities of the role will be managing the consultants responsible for delivery and approval of the Development Consent Order (DCO) application. Engineering design and the DCO application is at an early stage so the successful candidate will have the opportunity to heavily influence the development of the project.
• The role will represent the client and partners to UK onshore Regulators against the backdrop of a FOAK project.
  

On the H&S front the role will be accountable and responsible for:

• Managing the ground investigation and intrusive and non-intrusive survey contractor(s), setting the expected standard with the contractor(s) and working with the contractor(s) to ensure that the works meet the standard required by the contract.
• Working with contractors to define and agree the standards, systems and processes that will be applied to the execution of work during the Execute phase
• Working with the contractors to identify agreed approaches to managing higher hazard activity to eliminate, prevent and control incidents from occurring based on industry best practice and best technology available.
• Setting the culture and mindset on the site of high standards, open reporting and effective feedback and speaking up.
• Managing the performance of the contractor to ensure that the safety approach is pro-active not reactive. Ensuring that future activity is risk assessed with enough time to allow the risk assessments to influence the way that work is done.
• Working with line management to ensure that the line sets the standards and intervenes as and when required on safety.
• Setting the culture and mindset on the site of high standards, open reporting and effective feedback and speaking up.
• Establishing excellent relationships with site-based contractors to ensure that work is undertaken to agreed standards, approaches and to comply with legal requirements.
• Overseeing contractor activity to verify that work is undertaken to the agreed standards and approaches.
• Intervening when deviations from agreed standards and approaches are identified.
• Working with contractors to set up safe start of site investigation activities in Humber.
• Having an excellent working relationship with the workforce to properly understand what’s really happening at the site and that the workforce is valued, trusted and respected.
  
  

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Qualifications

• Experience gained in the oil and gas or another high hazard industry.
• Experience of delivery of DCOs and working closely with statutory consultees such as the Environment Agency, Natural England and Local Planning Authorities.
• Demonstrable track record of working with regulators, stakeholders and NGOs and obtaining regulatory approval for complex new activities.
• Track record of influencing teams and building and maintaining productive internal and external relationships with key stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to effectively prioritize work on a continual basis and work in an agile manner.
• A demonstrable track record of working with contractors to influence performance and outcomes of a safe working construction site.
• A demonstrable record of working on a large complex onshore construction site with multiple trades and contractors
• A demonstrable track record of setting standards on a site of a high class safety standard, openness, reporting and speaking up
  
  

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