Offshore Safety Advisor at Benmaris Limited

Benmaris Limited started as a professional manpower providers, financial consultants and general works contractor in 2007. It is a wholly owned Nigerian Company. Over the years, it has undertaken many challenging projects and accumulated skills, know-how and experiences in Facilities Management, Procurement and Supply Services, Design and Build Solutions, Project Management Services, Building Construction and related engineering works.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Offshore Safety Advisor

Location: Nigeria
Division: Exploration & Production
Direction: Drilling & Wells - Technical Directorate
Position to Report: D&W Operations Safety Leader

Service Purpose

• This Service is created as an additional resource to better deliver on the responsibilities and tasks of the Offshore Safety Advisor towards the HSEQ objectives of the D&W entities base and on-site activities; and to ensure continuity when the OSL is unavoidably absent.

Service Dimensions:

• Proactively carry out the activities of the position.
• Be responsible for meeting adopted HSE objectives.
• Promote the HSE and Quality culture in the Drilling & Wells entity to achieve the HSEQ objectives.
• Act in the best interest of COMPANY at all times.
• Maintain awareness of and drive compliance with all relevant Statutory and Company HSE standards in D&W.
• Actively participate in leading Company safety awareness and initiative schemes.
• Always adhere to the values and principles of the Company Code of Conduct.
• Willingly and openly share good practices and REX.
• Ensure the suitability to operational requirements of personnel, equipment and services.

Activities

• Participate in Rig / Service Contractor HSEQ-MS Audits at prescribed locations (Port Harcourt, Onne, rigs, etc) and other visits to contractor’s premises.
• Ensure timely entry of all incidents and associated actions, DGS and other HSE events into the company SYNERGI database.
• Participate in JRA of non-routine tasks and ensure approved JSA is provided to site HSE personnel for implementation.
• Participate in Contractors’ SQM Meetings and follow up on timely close out of HSEQ issues identified.
• Follow-up HSEQ actions closure arising from D&W activities including rig / rigless operation anomaly cards, action trackers.
• Participate in D&W HSE committee meetings, operation site visits and quarterly Site HSE Committee Meetings; and utilize the forum to update, discuss, and give feedback on incidents.
• Ensure the minutes of meetings are generated and distributed as appropriate.
• Ensure HSEQ Objectives & Plan are benchmarked monthly and that KPI’s are in place and communicated.
• Participate in hazard identification and enhance ways & means of identifying hazards and controlling risks in Downgraded Situations and/or SIMOPS.
• Promote among D&W personnel and contractors: safety at work, Service Risk Assessments, PTW implementation, Emergency Drills, anomaly reporting, STOP Work Authority; Golden Rules, MAESTRO Principles, Zero Fatality Program, etc; and provide support for safe execution of D&W operations.
• Ensure HSE induction is conducted for new personnel joining D&W and contractor personnel before site mobilization.
• Ensure the Rig Dossier is kept up to date.
• Drive awareness among COMPANY rig supervisory staff on the MEDEVAC / MEDERESCUE Plan, BOCP, Blow Out Contingency Plan; OSCP.
• Follow up with HSEQ Training Matrix for D&W personnel including RSES/RSES-D and drive the update on HSEPass.
• Participate in Site pre-SIMPOS meetings and follow up on open action items for close out.
• Assist to prepare HSEQ Bridging documents and SIMOPS Dossier and obtain necessary approvals prior to site mobilization.
• Prepare HSE slide presentations as required by the Drilling team.
• Assist with BOCP drills preparation and organization; manage the recording of the minutes OF the BOCP drills.
• Participate in blow out emergency drills.
• Ensure that HSE training are implemented and that the Rig safety induction is done properly.
• Follow up on the training matrix of the Rig Contractor and service contractor personnel; and ensure compliance with competency and certification requirements.
• Ensure incident and anomalies are reported and analysed; ensuring that HSE statistics (TRIR, LTIF, etc) are documented for all D&W operations.
• Ensure that all Stop / Anomaly reporting are analyzed for trends and subsequent actions identified.
• Participate in Cause Tree Analysis (CTA) as per company rules (LTI; AS ≥ 3; PS ≥ 4) and incident Investigation as required.
• Issue the HSE weekly, monthly and yearly HSE performance reports on the Drilling & Wells Entity HSEQ Activities.
• Follow up on the validity of the CMS documents of D&W.

Context and Environment

• Deepwater environment with high-cost exposure (up to 1.0 MUSD day rate.
• Advise and assist the entire D&W on matters of safe program execution.
• Take an active role in the process improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to diffusing HSE philosophy and training operative personnel.
• Maintain a professional projection of image, action and professional expertise at all times.
• Interface with FOPS, ECP, Techlog,HSE division, and Base office HSE Admin.

Accountabilities

• Ensure HSE induction is conducted for new personnel joining D&W and contractor personnel before site mobilization.
• Ensure HSEQ Training Matrix for D&W personnel including RSES/RSES-D are implemented on HSEPass.
• Promote among D&W personnel and contractors: safety at work, Service Risk Assessments, PTW implementation, Emergency Drills, anomaly reporting, STOP Work Authority; Golden Rules, MAESTRO Principles, Zero Fatality Program, etc; and provide support for safe execution of D&W operations.
• Ensure timely entry of all incidents and associated actions, DGS and other HSE events into the company SYNERGI database.
• Prepare HSEQ Bridging documents and SIMOPS Dossier and obtain necessary approvals prior to site mobilization.
• Prepare HSE slide presentations as required by the Drilling team.
• Ensure the D&W HSEQ Objectives & Plan are benchmarked monthly and that KPI’s are in place and communicated.
• Issue the HSE weekly, monthly and yearly HSE performance reports on the Drilling & Wells Entity HSEQ Activities.

HSE Objectives:

• Familiarize self with Company emergency procedures, carry out assigned responsibilities safely and report any incident, unsafe act or operation.
• Promote among D&W personnel and contractors: safety at work, Service Risk Assessments, PTW implementation, anomaly reporting, Emergency Drills, STOP Work Authority; Golden Rules, MAESTRO Principles, Zero Fatality Program, etc.
• Provide support for safe execution of D&W operations.

Qualifications

• Initial formal Education: Technical Engineering or HSE Degree / Diploma.
• Operations Experience (number of years): 5 - 7 years minimum.
• Other (prior operational experience desirable): Drilling operations experience + Minimum of HSE auditor’s certification / NEBOSH certification; Offshore OPITO HUET / BOSIET Certification up to date.
• Annual Medical Certificate (AMC).

Application Closing Date
28th October, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (preferably in Microsoft Word) to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Please indicate the position on the Subject line of your email or it may be overlooked.