Senior Environmental Engineer – VR/24425

Reporting to the Environment Lead, the Senior Environmental Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Preparing and submitting to regulator all relevant environmental permits for onshore and offshore operations including, but not limited to, MAT, SAT, OCR, OPPC, IPPC, OPEP, EUETS, COMAH, CAR licences and PPC.
• Providing environmental expertise and advice to Asset Field Operations, Performance and Growth, Geosciences, Wells Construction and Maintenance Teams.
• Responsible for providing support to site based HSE professionals and working with them on common objectives.
• Responsible for inputting environmental objectives into the annual asset HSE improvement plan.
• Responsible for inputting environmental audits into the annual asset audit plan through a risk-based assessment, looking at areas such as legal compliance and incident trends.
• Responsible for inputting into the annual monitoring plan for the asset.
• Responsible implementing the work programme for ISO 14001 certification, including onshore and offshore surveillance / re-certification audits within the asset.
• Responsible for conducting monitoring activities and audits in accordance with the asset plans.
• Responsible for ensuring the asset aspects and impacts register is kept up to date for providing the necessary technical input to operations.
• Responsible for producing appropriate procedures and related training materials. This may require spending a period of time on the operational site during roll-out and implementation.
• Responsible for liaising with regulatory bodies (BEIS, SEPA, etc.) regarding permitting regime and regulatory inspections.
• Ensuring compliance with country specific environmental legislation and company procedures, in line with continuous improvement principles.
• Facilitating accident investigation / root cause analysis.
• Accountable for daily, weekly, monthly, bi-annual, annual and ad-hoc environmental reporting for asset (internal and external).
• Managing preparation of environmental statements for new developments.
• Chairing onshore Environmental Focus Team meetings, involving personnel from various disciplines.
• Becoming a trained member of the oil spill response group in event of a major spill.
• Following up on environmental incidents via Stre@m.
• Responsible for the HSE evaluation of contractors during the ITT process and following up any recommendations made during the HSE evaluation.
• Contributing to budgets and plans for work activities and assisting in cost control.
• Providing technical input on contractor / consultant selection in contracts with environmental management element.
• Representing company on industry committees and specialist forums, involving legislative authorities and other oil and gas operators.

Experience / Qualifications:

• A degree qualification in a relevant engineering or scientific discipline is essential.
• Applicants will be expected to hold approved Environmental Management System Lead Auditor certification.
• Applicants will be expected to be oil spill response trained.
• Current / valid offshore certification would be preferred.
  A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar Environmental Advisor / Engineer type role, within the oil and gas industry, is essential.
• Applicants will be expected to have experience in leading investigations of significant incidents.

Occasional offshore travel may be required - therefore, applicants must be prepared to work offshore.

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