Offshore Environmental Specialist

Our client is currently recruiting for an Offshore Environmental Specialist to join their team on a contract basis.

You will have a key role supporting the Offshore Environmental Team to deliver environmental management and compliance as well as support consent compliance for the large-scale offshore wind projects in the UK, during the pre-FID and Execution phase of works.

Key Responsibilities of the role are to provide environmental advisory support to the EA Hub Projects:

• The main purpose of this role will be to act as EA Hub Lead Offshore Environmental Advisor for the EA Hub offshore wind farm project providing environmental support to the Project Team
• The role is flexible, with tasks to be completed in the project office and offshore.
• This role will have responsibility to assist the develop and maintain an effective level of environmental management for the EA Hub offshore projects.
• A significant part of the role will be to engagement directly with the suppliers and contractors who are either tendering or awarded the offshore works on environmental management.
• Carry out checks on suppliers post contract award (including audits, inspections, review and comment on site documentation, meetings etc).
• Develop and communicate environmental awareness training including site inductions (on and off site).

Key Tasks
• Liaison and update the project environmental team on offshore contractors, risks and documents.
• Undertake environmental inspections of vessels working on the project.
• Engagement with the EA Hub offshore package leads to communicate environmental compliance requirements and environmental management standards.
• Engagement with the project HS team to ensure alignment of HS-E standards and documents.
• Review and update local offshore environmental management controls including the offshore environmental plan, and development of other specific EA hub offshore documents.
• Assessment of Contractors pre-qualification and tender returns in regards to environmental management issues for the various work packages.
• Preparation of contract schedules and associated documentation in regards to environmental management for the various work packages.
• Post contract award review site documentation to ensure that it meets contract requirements
• Receive and review contractors risk assessments / method statements, environmental plans etc and work with project management to approve submitted documents.
• Facilitate environmental meetings with contractors, and represent environmental interests.
• Collate environmental incidents/near miss statistics from all contractors on the project and submit report to project management team using SPR established procedures (in liaison with Health &Safety team).
• Lead or assist with offshore environmental incident investigation as applicable.
• Ensure that SPR and the site contractors report environmental incidents to the appropriate Authorities as applicable and as per project protocols
• Support the project environmental manager on requirements for project environmental reporting.