HSE Advisor

HSE Advisor

Working Location

Warsaw, Poland

Start date: 5th October 2026
End date: 31st January 2028
Work Style: Residential - Monday to Friday, 8 hours per day

Role Objective / Success Criteria / KPI

• Promote and provide professional HSE knowledge and guidance to managers, supervisors, employees, and contractors on safe work practices, safety standards, and legal regulations.
• Support the identification and elimination of potential hazards and ensure suitable control measures are established and maintained.
• Maintain current knowledge of HSE best practice and legal requirements and secure conformity through agreed processes and legal registers.
• Promote the development and effective use of management systems and a proactive, data-driven approach to risk management.
• Provide reliable and timely HSE data through an analytical, structured, and collaborative approach to daily workload.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and promote a positive and proactive HSE culture through visible leadership, engagement, data, awareness, knowledge sharing, and lessons learned.
• Support the development, implementation, and use of HSE systems, procedures, instructions, contingency plans, and associated documentation.
• Support the HSE management system, QHSE process landscape, and global/local emergency response and crisis management arrangements.
• Liaise effectively with contractors and JV partners at management and site levels to establish and improve safety, health, and environmental culture.
• Participate in relevant site HSE meetings and internal and external audits.
• Support follow-up of findings from audits, inspections, and incident investigations and the implementation and closure of NCRs.
• Provide practical HSE advice to management, technicians, employees, client representatives, and contractors during daily work.

Tasks

• Promote proactive reporting and high-quality HSE data management to support data-driven risk management.
• Participate in audit and compliance checks aligned with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 55001.
• Report lost-time injuries to the HSE organisation in accordance with the defined process.
• Create and provide HSE reports for stakeholders and ensure data correctness and consistency across all reports.
• Facilitate regular HSE meetings with contractors and JV partners.
• Review Risk Assessed Method Statements and complete operational HSE assessments.
• Perform HSE inductions for Client Representatives and deliver HSE presentations at kick-off meetings.
• Complete HSE walk reports using the applicable Digital Inspection Tool and record incidents and proactive measures in Synergi.
• Maintain the validity of required safety and training certificates and proactively maintain the competence levels required for the role.

Deliverables

• Regular HSE meetings facilitated with contractors and JV partners.
• Reviewed Risk Assessed Method Statements (RAMS).
• Completed operational HSE assessments.
• HSE inductions for Client Representatives and presentations at project kick-off meetings.
• HSE walk reports produced using the Digital Inspection Tool.
• Incidents and proactive measures recorded accurately in Synergi.
• Additional deliverables completed in accordance with Project QHSE risk-management processes and the APQHSE Management Framework.

Project Documents

• HSE instructions, procedures, and contingency plans.
• HSE management system and QHSE process documentation.
• Emergency response and crisis management documentation.
• Audit, compliance-check, inspection, incident-investigation, and NCR records.
• HSE meeting records, RAMS reviews, operational assessments, and induction materials.
• HSE reports, Digital Inspection Tool records, and Synergi entries.

Decision Authority / Responsibility

• Act as an HSE subject-matter expert and contribute professional advice to operational and project decision-making.
• Provide recommendations based on personal understanding of the business and its interdependencies with other departments.
• Support HSE performance across the organisation while recognising that the QHSE function is not the exclusive owner of HSE.
• Escalate material HSE risks, non-conformities, incidents, and control-measure concerns through the appropriate project and QHSE channels.

Requirements

• Relevant academic or technical background and a recognised HSE qualification, including completed NEBOSH Level 3 or equivalent.
• Minimum three years of HSE work experience, ideally within onshore renewables or offshore wind-farm construction. Medior level.
• Working knowledge of fundamental HSE concepts, practices, procedures, theories, methods, techniques, and processes.
• Knowledge of root-cause analysis and incident investigation.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at different levels.
• Highly organised, analytical, and able to meet deadlines while collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office capability, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; knowledge of Synergi is advantageous.
• Fluent English language skills and a current clean European driving licence.
• Experience working within a 50/50 joint venture and Polish language capability are appreciated.
• Experience delivering presentations, training courses, or training materials is desirable, and previous client experience is beneficial.
• Must comply with the client's training and medical requirements.

Key Interfaces to Other Functions / Stakeholders

• Head of Regional QHSE Advisors, Europe and Project QHSE Director.
• QHSE leadership managers and Project and Construction Managers.
• JV partners, Client Representatives, and contractors at site.
• Local regulators and authorities.
• Company employees, technicians, and other internal stakeholders.