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HSEQ Data Services Lead
Ocean Infinity
Southampton, GBR
Full-time
Lead
Onsite
GBP 75000 / year
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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What you will do:
- Accountable for operational safety risk during live execution across Data Services marine operations — including vessels, offshore campaigns, mobilisation and demobilisation phases.
- Owns how execution phase safety is governed, escalated, and assured across the portfolio.
- Defines the boundary between: delivery ownership (project, marine, vessel teams), and HSEQ ownership (frameworks, escalation thresholds, assurance logic).
- Provides senior HSEQ leadership during high‐risk vessel mobilisations, non‐standard or novel marine operations, escalated operational safety events.
- Acts as the point of authority and escalation when execution risk exceeds predefined thresholds.
- Ensures that risk acceptance decisions are taken at the right level, with appropriate visibility and evidence.
- Control‐of‐Work, Readiness and Competence Frameworks
- Owns the Data Services approach to control of work, mobilisation and readiness, competence expectations, permit‐to‐work interfaces.
- Ensures these frameworks: are appropriate for marine and vessel‐based operations, scale across multiple campaigns without requiring bespoke HSEQ effort per project, are clearly distinguished between always‐on controls and risk‐triggered controls.
- Complexity-Based Coverage Model
- Alongside PM and operational teams, implement and refine a project complexity scoring model that classifies projects by risk characteristics (e.g. novel operations, environmental exposure, client requirements, geography).
- Ensures HSEQ involvement in Data Services scales with operational complexity and consequence, not project count, and is triggered early (e.g. bid, mobilisation planning), not late.
- Integrates complexity scoring with tendering and planning processes so operational risk is surfaced before execution begins, not absorbed reactively.
- Standardisation & Efficiency
- Build and maintain a standard control and evidence library for repeatable Data Services work — with mandatory always-on controls explicitly labelled and distinguished from triggered controls.
- Identify the top high-volume HSEQ artefacts consuming advisor time and partner with our Technology teams to deliver automation and embed AI into the flow of work where possible.
- Reduce time spent on document creation so advisors can focus on real risk and decision enablement.
- Insight & Governance
- Accountable for escalating systemic execution‐phase issues into HSEQ governance — rather than allowing repeat operational risk to be managed locally and repeatedly.
- Owns how learning from incidents, near misses, and operational deviations is translated into changes to controls, readiness criteria, and standards.
- Ensures Data Services contributes meaningful signal into management review and assurance processes.
- Team Leadership
- Line manage HSEQ Operational Advisors – Data Services.
- Set expectations, develop capability, and embed new ways of working across the team.
- Ensure advisors operate as decision enablers — stepping in and out based on context and consequence, not as permanent project fixtures.
Who you are:
- Significant experience in HSEQ leadership within marine, offshore, or subsea operations.
- Demonstrable experience managing operational safety risk in execution-heavy, multi-project environments.
- Experience designing or operating risk-based engagement models (e.g. complexity scoring, risk triage at bid/tender).
- Strong understanding of control of work, permit-to-work, and mobilisation/readiness frameworks.
- Ability to lead and develop a team of HSEQ advisors.
- Familiarity with Integrated Management Systems (ISO 45001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001).
- Comfortable working at pace in a scaling organisation — pragmatic, outcome-focused, not process-heavy.
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent; IOSH Chartered membership desirable.
- Experience with data-led safety management (dashboards, trend analysis) is an advantage.
Benefits
- Salary for this position: Up to £75,000 per annum
- The salary varies for this position as we are recruiting in multiple regional locations and job grades. The salary process is based on skills, abilities, and experience required.
About Ocean Infinity
Scientific Research & Development1624 employeesFounded 2017
Private marine robotics company delivering robotic ocean operations and data services to governments, energy companies, and scientists.
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