Title/Position: HSE & TI Advisor

Location:
Houston, Texas, USA / Norway

Contract Period:
January 15 - December 31, 2008

Closing Date: December 14, 2007

Short description of project/assignment:
Significant parts of the work will take place at the Houston (USA) project office. Ability to perform extensive travel and extended stays (4 weeks or more) in the Houston area is important to this position

Responsibilities:

• Provide professional engineering support and advice on issues related to Process Safety/Technical Safety for the project scope. This includes overseeing and preparing input to safety related systems such as active / passive fire protection, fire and gas detection, etc.
• Define specific requirements for the platform, review and technically approve proposed design of equipment and systems. 
• Identify and understanding hazards within his/her remit, propose methods and ways to eliminate or control hazards.
• Consult with project ‘Technical Authorities’ to seek agreement on proposed solutions and advise on deviations from and use of relevant codes, standards and statutory regulations.
• Ensure that all work and tasks within the area of responsibility are carried out to achieve the overall objectives of the project.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• MSc degree (or equivialent)
• Training in and recent experience from safety and risk management for projects on the Norwegian Continental
Shelf
• Experience from HSE discipline work in offshore development projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
• Working Knowledge of Norwegian regulatory requirements and standards applicable for new development projects on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Personal skills:

• Oriented towards finding solutions and resolving issues
• Ability to collate information from various sources and translate into direct design input
• Competently and effectively perform tasks in a healthy, safe and environmentally sound manner.
• Practice, encourage and reinforce safe, healthy and environmentally sound behaviours.
• Promote teamwork and create a working environment that encourages active participation, innovation and
creativity of all team members.
• Seeks input from others to get lessons learned into the project.

Travel / Other:

For more information contact:

Gunnar Nordahl
info@dovreusa.com