Well Engineering & Operations Inspector

Well Engineering & Operations Inspector
Aberdeen, Norwich and Bootle (with travel for offshore and onshore inspections)

About Us

The Health and Safety Executive is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work.

We are now looking for two Well Engineering & Operations Inspectors to join us on a full-time, permanent basis. Part-time working hours are also available for this role, for candidates who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours (four days) per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £66,657 - £71,628 (plus a market supplement of up to £15,000 for all locations and an additional allowance of up to £7,000 for Aberdeen-based roles)
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and Civil Service privilege leave
- Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Flexible working options
- Family-friendly policies and working hours
- Competitive parental leave benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- Excess Fares Allowance

This is an outstanding opportunity for a high-calibre well engineering professional with a background of planning and managing drilling operations at a senior level to join our essential organisation.

In this varied role, you’ll have the chance to influence key decision-makers and drive improvements across the sector, helping us to maintain some of the highest safety standards in the world!

Inspections are a critical element of a safety-focused work environment and you’ll be at the forefront of ensuring people and processes are as safe as can be. Alongside a team, you’ll be the catalyst of change and will be able to make a real impact whilst enhancing your portfolio of experience.

So, if you want to join a dedicated team and have access to a whole host of fantastic benefits and rewards whilst supporting one of the UK’s most imperative organisations, then apply today!

The Role

As a Well Engineering & Operations Inspector, you will inspect and regulate a wide range of offshore and onshore drilling and well engineering operations activities.

Using your knowledge of oil and gas well construction and operations, you’ll provide specialist advice and guidance related to well engineering operations and drilling activities.

As part of the offshore safety case permissioning regime, you will assess safety cases, as well as performing site and HQ inspections and investigating accidents, incidents, and complaints for onshore and offshore well operations.

Supporting enforcement action, you’ll produce technical reports and expert evidence for legal proceedings, as well as contributing to the development of industry standards and guidance.

About You

To be considered as a Well Engineering & Operations Inspector, you will need:

- Experience of well engineering, with responsibility for planning and managing drilling operations at a senior level
- Experience managing and contributing to relevant technical projects
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management tools
- Knowledge of well-servicing operations, with the ability to work with other technical disciplines
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Good organisational and planning skills
- To hold, or be working towards, chartered status with the Engineering Council and a Corporate membership of an approved professional institution
- A full, valid driving licence

Please note, successful candidates must be able to satisfy the UK offshore medical and survival training requirements.

The closing date for this role is Midday on Friday 5th January 2024.

Other organisations may call this role Drilling Engineer, Senior Drilling Engineer, Well Engineer, Senior Well Engineer, Drilling Superintendent, or Wells Inspector.

Webrecruit and Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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