WHAT DOES A HSE ENGINEER DO?

Published: Jul 29, 2025 - The Health, Safety, and Environment Engineer (HSE Engineer) supports the development and implementation of the project HSE management plan, while ensuring effective administration of the incident handling system (TIA) and compliance with safety protocols. This role involves leading and assisting with risk assessments for commissioning and start-up activities, reviewing contractor and vendor risk analyses, and conducting HSE training for the commissioning team. The engineer also investigates incidents, prepares escalation reports, and provides continuous HSE support to the commissioning and start-up organization.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for HSE Engineer

1. HSE Engineer Additional Details

  • HSE Management Support: Support health, safety and environmental management systems
  • HSE Inspection Participation: Lead and participate in HSE inspections, self-assessments and audits
  • Report Preparation: Present findings to management and prepare appropriate reports
  • Corrective Action Follow-up: Follow up corrective actions to completion
  • Risk Assessment Application: Use of risk assessment tools and develop control plans in the region
  • Teamwork Support: Support together as a team and complete key project tasks individually
  • Procedure Implementation: Implement HSE procedures, training, internal and external communications in accordance with company and departmental policies/procedures and regulatory requirements
  • Incident Investigation Support: Support incident investigation, root cause analysis, remedial action identification and closure
  • Performance Communication: Work closely with managers to measure and communicate HSE performance
  • Trend Monitoring: Monitor trends and advocate for injury/illness reduction

2. HSE Engineer Job Description

  • Emergency Management: Assist the organization in managing emergency situations and containment activities
  • Industrial Hygiene Coordination: Coordinate industrial hygiene programs and exposure assessments
  • Medical Surveillance Support: Work closely with the management team to ensure implementation of medical surveillance requirements
  • AOP Compliance Promotion: Promote timely compliance with the AOP indicators
  • Risk Review Implementation: Implement HSE risk review and contractor management processes
  • Vendor Liaison: Serve as liaison with third-party vendors and regulatory agencies
  • HSE Program Support: HSE support for the implementation of HSE management system programs for the office environment and HSE support for all departments
  • HSE Liaison: Liaise with HSE officers/consultants on the full range of their duties

3. HSE Engineer Tasks

  • Inspection Coordination: Responsible for relations to inspections, reports, recommendations, legislative changes and advice from other parties
  • Competence Development: Ensure the continued competence and professional development of HSE personnel in their country
  • Client SOM Participation: Participate in client SOM exams
  • Customer Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external customers to improve HSE in the workplace
  • Committee Participation: Participate in the site safety and/or HSE steering committee
  • Team Effectiveness: Participate in an effective HSE team that is committed to the company's goals
  • Budget Preparation: Annual preparation of HSE budget based on country HSE requirements and AOP goals and objectives
  • Change Management Support: Support the change management process in the project
  • Regulatory Compliance: Comply with Honeywell's HSE requirements and local legislation
  • Risk Assessment: Assess risks related to business opportunities and contractual obligations

4. HSE Engineer Main Duties

  • Safety System Installation: On-site safety system installation/configuration
  • Risk Survey Facilitation: Provide risk survey facilitation
  • Safety Circuit Design: Design safety circuits and entire safety systems
  • Technical Report Writing: Write Risk Assessment Technical Reports
  • Project Management: Manage projects connected with machinery safety
  • Team Support: Support on-site teams to accomplish desired results connected with the HS of the process and equipment
  • Safety Solution Engineering: Engineer safety solutions based on legal and company requirements and risk survey findings
  • Safety Controller Programming: Programming of Safety controllers using function block or ladder logic programming styles
  • Technical Documentation: Possesses good technical writing ability and understands design engineering requirements
  • Program Compliance: Ensure compliance with safety programs

5. HSE Engineer Roles

  • Safety Audit Conducting: Conduct technical safety and compliance audits
  • Incident Investigation: Participate in or lead process safety incident investigations
  • JSA Program Maintenance: Maintain a job safety analysis program
  • Inspection Coordination: Coordinate construction and facility safety inspections
  • Survey and Assessment: Conduct workplace surveys, safety audits, safety assessments, and  accident investigations
  • HSE Plan Management: Associated health and safety plans
  • Audit Participation: Participate in safety audits, injury and safety incident reviews, and safety issues and concerns
  • Process Safety Auditing: Participate in process safety-related audits
  • Safety Training Delivery: Conduct safety and environmental training programs, connected with process and machine safety
  • Internal Audit Execution: Perform internal safety audits

6. HSE Engineer Main Duties

  • Safety Meeting Facilitation: Attend and conduct safety meetings
  • Life Safety Repair: Repair the life safety systems
  • Machinery Safety Coordination: Coordinate onsite machinery safety assessments
  • Regulatory Compliance Assurance: Ensure compliance with applicable environmental, safety, process safety, and industrial hygiene regulations
  • Safety Consultation: Provide safety consultation and information to support all company safety efforts
  • Equipment Design: Design equipment, create CAD drawings, schematics, and technical manuals
  • Technical Support: Assist with troubleshooting and support
  • Safety Management Compliance: Ensure conformance to legal and company safety management system

7. HSE Engineer Tasks

  • HS&E Program Implementation: Implement, monitor and support plant HS&E programs/policies
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with applicable HS&E guidelines, regulations, permits and standards
  • Field Assessment & Sampling: Conduct HS&E field assessments and audits, collect field samples and data in a variety of media for required waste shipments, wastewater, radiation and air
  • Waste Management Planning: Assist in the development of a facility waste management plan, including identification and implementation of minimization and recycling opportunities, establishing and administering satellite accumulation areas, developing waste collection programs and managing storage areas
  • Regulation Application: Proper application of RCRA and TSCA regulations
  • Waste Profiling Support: Assist in completing waste profiles
  • Waste Characterization Guidance: Provide guidance on waste characterization and analysis and to properly complete container labels and waste shipment documents
  • Waste Packaging: Ensure proper packaging of wastes into containers most appropriate for the waste material

8. HSE Engineer Roles and Responsibilities

  • Transport Compliance: Comply with applicable transport regulations and disposal recycling site acceptance parameters
  • Environmental Improvement: Responsible for driving environmental continuous improvement throughout the site location in support of Honeywell's Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems and Honeywell's Operating System-related activities
  • Hazard Recognition: Responsible for behaviors and demonstrating hazard recognition to improve the Health, Safety, and Environmental culture
  • Noncompliance Investigation: Investigate noncompliance conditions to determine and eliminate causes
  • Sample Collection: Collect field samples and data in a variety of media for required waste shipments
  • Policy Development Support: Assist in the development and implementation of HS&E policies and procedures
  • Field Assessment & Audit: Conduct HS&E field assessments and audits
  • Audit Response Coordination: Coordinate site responses to Corporate and external audit findings
  • Tiered Meeting Participation: Participate in site tiered meetings with a specific focus on production tiered meetings
  • Improvement Identification: Identify improvement opportunities and discuss during departmental tiered meetings

9. HSE Engineer Duties and Roles

  • Contractor Training: Provide HSE training to contractor companies
  • Onboarding Training: Provide HSE onboarding training to site employees
  • Safety Infrastructure Inspection: Conduct inspection of safety and loss prevention infrastructure (fire protection system, etc.)
  • Waste Storage Maintenance: Ensure non-hazardous and hazardous waste storage areas are maintained
  • Waste Record Control: Maintain orderly control of waste management records (inventories, manifests, etc.)
  • Work Permit Issuance: Conduct work permit for non-routine and hazardous tasks (work at heights, etc.)
  • Vendor Interaction: Interact directly with a specialized vendor for sampling and testing processes (environment, etc.)
  • Procurement Administration: Ensure adequate and orderly administration of the area procuring processes (goods, services, etc.)
  • Document Control: Maintain effective area document and data control (procedures, records, etc.)
  • Meeting Participation: Participate in daily production cells meetings and effectively escalate issues to upper levels

10. HSE Engineer Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • EHS Partnership: Partner with location leadership to deliver EHS objectives
  • Leadership Coaching: Coach and counsel departmental leaders
  • Accountability Support: Assist them in the execution of their EHS accountabilities
  • Permit Compliance: Support the implementation and compliance with Environmental permits and maintenance of daily/monthly recordkeeping and reports related to areas like Air, Wastewater, Storm Water and Solid Waste
  • FSI Prevention: Assist with the location of fatal and serious injury (FSI) prevention efforts, including helping to lead the deployment and execution of key FSI elements and coaching the location Single Point Accountable persons (SPAs) in the critical 6 safety protocols
  • Safety Program Expertise: Serve as the technical expert for the location's safety program
  • Incident Investigation Support: Provide technical expertise and participate in injury/incident investigations to assist in identifying root cause analysis and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence
  • Injury Data Analysis: Analyze injury and incident data and assist line management in the implementation of focused injury reduction efforts
  • Injury Reduction Expertise: Provide expertise to proactively address injury reduction efforts
  • Industrial Hygiene Leadership: Assume leadership of the location's industrial hygiene program, including execution of IH sampling plans, the administration of IH databases and employee exposure records, hazardous material management, ergonomics oversight and serve as the radiation protection technical resource
  • EHS Accountability Leadership: Lead and assist with other EHS accountabilities

11. HSE Engineer Roles and Details

  • Operations Collaboration: Collaborate with operations managers
  • Risk Assessment: Ensure that operational activities are clearly identified and that the associated risks are assessed and controlled by the implementation of secure work and control procedures
  • EHS Culture Promotion: Advise and supervise site employees to promote the EHS culture
  • EHS Communication: Develop EHS communication with teams
  • Improvement Initiative Management: Manage EHS improvement initiatives and EHS performance indicators
  • Risk Reduction Support: Help reduce the company's safety and health risks
  • Compliance Audit Coordination: Coordinate, conduct compliance audits/review of operations (inspections/audits) on site (factory, engineering office)
  • Safety Equipment Identification: Help the electrical test platform teams identify the equipment essential to their safety (PPE, etc.)

12. HSE Engineer Key Accountabilities

  • Equipment Compliance Monitoring: Ensure that the monitoring of this equipment complies with the requirements
  • Program Management: Manage, monitor programs and action plans related to environmental EHS obligations (waste, water, electricity)
  • Permit Identification: Identify and submit in due time all applicable EHS permits (prevention plans, fire permits, authorizations)
  • Regulatory Relations: Develop and maintain relations with the French administration and regulatory agencies
  • Chemical Handling Enforcement: Enforce standards relating to the handling and storage of chemicals
  • Electrical Risk Analysis: Analyze the risks associated with electrical installations and low, medium and high voltage electrical energy storage systems
  • Incident Management Development: Continue to develop the incident and accident management process
  • Training Plan Design: Design training plans covering the operational needs of the site as well as those of service activities on the customer site
  • Engineering Team Support: Support local engineering teams in coordination with global EHS teams
  • Risk Prevention Initiatives: Implement risk prevention initiatives aimed at achieving first-rate results in occupational health and safety
  • ISO45001 Improvement: Improve actions and documentation related to ISO45001 certification (procedures, indicators, EHS management review)

13. HSE Engineer General Responsibilities

  • Performance Measurement: Work closely with HSE Leader and Country Leader to measure, achieve and communicate HSE performance
  • Regulatory Authority Relations: Maintain a pertinent work relationship with the local regulatory authorities
  • Supervisor Collaboration: Maintain a close working relationship with the Workplace Supervisors/Business Leaders
  • Communication Process Management: Ensure an effective communication process dedicated to enabling the company's HSE system’s maintenance
  • Employee Relationship Management: Maintain a professional relationship with all the company’s employees in regard with the company and regulatory Occupational Safety
  • Project Safety Collaboration: Maintain a close working relationship with the Project Managers and Honeywell Product Solutions site leader in regard with the Project Safety activities
  • Facilities Collaboration: Maintain a close work relationship with the Facilities Manager regarding the building's compliant accommodation as a workplace environment
  • Audit and Inspection: Carry out audit, factory inspection, test and evaluation and as legislated
  • ISO Management Representation: Serve as Management Representative for ISO 45001:2018 management systems

14. HSE Engineer Role Purpose

  • Certification Management: Establish a system and ensure continued certification
  • HSE Advisory Support: Serve as advisor/facilitator to departmental heads on health, safety and environment issues
  • Training Needs Analysis: Establish a training needs analysis and conduct employee HSE-related training
  • Management Communication: Keep management updated and informed of any HSE-related issues that may impact or affect the performance of the company
  • Emergency Response Planning: Establish emergency response procedures for the site and coordinate the relevant training necessary for implementation
  • Committee Secretary: Serve as the Secretary of the Health and Safety Committee
  • Meeting Facilitation: Conduct meetings and track actions for improvement
  • Incident Investigation: Participate in incident investigations and follow up on incident reports to ensure corrective action is taken
  • HSEMS Deployment: Effectively deploying and sustaining the HSEMS on site
  • Standards Compliance: Ensure compliance with ISO14001 and ISO 45001 standards, Honeywell HSEMS, HSE legal and other requirements (OSHA 1994, FMA 1967, EQA 1974 and etc.)

15. HSE Engineer Essential Functions

  • Safety Culture Promotion: Improve EHS workplace performance by promoting a positive safety culture, identifying and mitigating EHS risk and implementing safety and environmental management systems in accordance with regulations, corporate compliance policies and standards
  • Hazard Evaluation: Identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices in the workplace
  • Inspection Coordination: Conduct and coordinate on-site inspections to audit physical conditions and safe work practices
  • Control System Integration: Integrate control systems into the design of new and existing equipment
  • Control Implementation: Coordinate the implementation of controls from the results of hazard analyses and risk assessments
  • System Effectiveness Evaluation: Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the hazard control system, policies and procedures
  • Incident Mitigation Recommendation: Recommend changes that reflect improved opportunities to mitigate workplace incidents and injuries to ALARP levels
  • System Safety Expertise: Provide system safety expertise for the engineering, design and manufacturing support for medical device applications
  • Safety Design Review: Support the safety design review for product manufacturing processes, including assisting in the development of specifications, scopes, and ensuring systems meet appropriate regulatory requirements
  • Safety Standard Development: Develop system safety standards for environmental and safety compliance, including but not limited to, prohibited materials, injury risk reduction, and pollution prevention

16. HSE Engineer Additional Details

  • Safety Analysis Development: Develop, deliver and update system safety analysis and risk assessment
  • Safety Feature Recommendation: Independently analyze and recommend safety features and controls for system design, software, training and procedures to mitigate or eliminate hazards
  • Safety Documentation Support: Perform and support the development of safety documentation associated with customer and contract requirements
  • Presentation Delivery: Prepare and deliver presentations by actively participating in safety review meetings, system design meetings, program engineering review and change board meetings
  • Incident Action Planning: Review, investigate and implement action plans for work-related injuries, illnesses, accidents and safety concerns
  • Standard Development Participation: Participate in new standard developments with Engineering, Manufacturing, and other key stakeholders
  • Design Review Support: Work with various teams to review and approve designs of new equipment and modifications to existing equipment
  • Process Improvement: Independently driven to seek improvement opportunities in the review process
  • Related Duties: Perform other related duties that correspond to the overall function of this position

17. HSE Engineer Roles

  • Incident Data Analysis: Responsible for gathering and statistically analyzing historical incidents using upper and lower control limits at Westlake to determine the best approach to reducing them
  • Program Development Facilitation: Help facilitate the development of global programs and methods to accomplish this
  • Safety Leadership Mentoring: Mentor plant managers and other safety influencers on how to be safety leaders
  • Technical and Interpersonal Skills: Requires both technical and interpersonal skills
  • MCE Audit Management: Responsible for the development and management of the Maximum Credible Event (MCE) audits conducted at the Chemical Division sites, which help lower the probability of a catastrophic event occurring at chemical sites
  • Corporate Audit Participation: Participate and lead a portion of the Corporate HSE audits conducted at all manufacturing sites
  • Policy Compliance: Comply with all Company policies and procedures
  • Continuous Improvement Support: Fully supports Company's goals of continuous improvement and operational excellence at strategic and tactical levels, including reviewing the area of responsibility for improvement opportunities
  • Project Initiation: Initiate projects or communicate ideas to management, as well as actively participate on project teams

18. HSE Engineer Tasks

  • Improvement Project Management: Identify, develop, implement, monitor and maintain lean manufacturing, 6 sigma, quality improvement, and cost reduction projects in alignment with the company's objective
  • Procedure Development: Identify, develop, implement, monitor and maintain procedures and systems to support
  • Safety System Management: Manage and support the internal safety and facility systems
  • Radiological Program Management: Manage and support the radiological program
  • Radiological Calculations: Perform calculations and develop spreadsheets to assist radiological decisions and documentation
  • Audit Responsibility: Responsible for facility and personnel audits
  • Equipment Maintenance: Responsible for equipment maintenance
  • Radioactive Waste Management: Manage the radioactive waste program
  • Personnel Supervision: Supervise non-exempt EH&S personnel
  • Safety Compliance: Understand and follow the established corporate safety standard, local facility operating procedures and safety policies
  • Attendance Maintenance: Maintain regular and predictable attendance

19. HSE Engineer Details and Accountabilities

  • Waste Management Oversight: Ensure that the internal management and activities of the company's different waste management processes (RP, RME, RBI, Water Discharge, etc.)
  • Regulatory Compliance: Comply with the criteria established by the different laws and regulations of the applicable government agencies
  • Program Adherence Verification: Verify compliance and adherence to health, safety and environmental programs
  • Wastewater Operation: Responsible for the operation of the wastewater treatment plant
  • Fire Prevention Management: Guarantee the availability, maintenance, order and functionality of the different mobile fire prevention and firefighting teams, as well as emergency response resources (stretchers, eyewash, etc.)
  • Information Management: Collect, document and keep available relevant information from the different areas of the department, risk management, waste management (air, soil, water, etc.), audits, corporate reports, etc.
  • Corrective Action Closure: Participate in and ensure the closure of corrective actions derived from SMR audits, work risks, CSH audits, etc.
  • Government Interaction: Interact with government inspectors and representatives, SEMARNAT, JMAS, STPS, PROFEPA, SDUE, CIVIL PROTECTION, etc.
  • Administrative Action Follow-up: Attend visits and follow up and close any administrative action
  • Audit Coordination: Conduct and coordinate external and internal EHS audits
  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and functional guidance to staff to ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental criteria
  • SMR Program Fulfillment: Participate and ensure that the SMR program is fulfilled according to the established procedure, promoting risk prevention
  • Permit Monitoring: Monitor, watch and ensure the validity of the different environmental and operational permits and licenses of the plant
  • Training Program Compliance: Follow up on the annual EHS training program, ensuring its compliance in a timely manner
  • Operational Support: Perform activities assigned by management to support plant operations

20. HSE Engineer Overview

  • Permit Management: Responsible for the EHS and fire permitting issues
  • Risk Assessment Facilitation: Facilitate safety risk assessment and environmental aspects evaluation of the site, together with the involved departments
  • Equipment Control: Control work equipment and facility/building structure planning and release process
  • Chemical Management: Take care of the site chemical management process
  • Industrial Hygiene Management: Be responsible for industrial hygiene management in cooperation with affected departments
  • Fire Protection Management: Fire protection management and emergency response
  • EHS Requirements Compliance: Ensure company internal EHS requirements compliance
  • Audit Coordination: Coordinate and accept corporate audit/site visit
  • Safety Committee Organization: Organize Safety committee meeting and site inspection, deficiency checking
  • Incident Investigation: Involved in near-miss and accident investigations and analysis
  • Inspection Support: Support the government's on-site inspection and follow-up
  • Plant EHS Collaboration: Work closely with the business unit for plant EHS management
  • Legal Compliance Assessment: Conduct EHS legal compliance, including law and regulation collection and assessment

21. HSE Engineer Job Description

  • Hazard Analysis: Conduct hazard analysis and implement controls to reduce risk and integrate safe work practices into manufacturing operations
  • Regulatory Compliance Support: Support programs which ensure regulatory compliance and environmental protection, including air pollution, wastewater and hazardous waste management, and sustainability projects
  • Health and Safety Promotion: Support programs that promote employee health and safety and prevent work-related injuries and disease
  • Inspection and Assessment: Conduct inspections and assessments
  • Technical Assistance: Provide technical assistance
  • HSEF Coaching: Coach employees on HSEF requirements
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify and execute on continuous improvement opportunities
  • Standards Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulations and Honeywell standards
  • Certification Pursuit: Pursue Six Sigma Green Belt certification

22. HSE Engineer Functions

  • Safety Support: Support the plant management in safety topics and in implementing the legal requirements
  • Technical Advisory: Provide technical advice to engineering and production management
  • Stakeholder Communication: Main contact person for Engineering and Operations
  • Safety Concept Development: Develop special safety concepts for machines and processes
  • Safety Design Influence: Influence the safety-related design for new projects
  • HS&E Collaboration: Contact with the plant organization and the central HS&E functions
  • Safety System Improvement: Continuously review and improve safety systems
  • Audit Preparation: Prepare and accompany internal and external audits
  • Authority Liaison: Maintain contact with authorities such as employers' liability insurance associations, supervisory authorities, building authorities and fire departments

23. HSE Engineer Duties and Roles

  • Contractor Communication: Inform contractors of the HSE regulations and routines and observance of the same
  • Routine Compliance: Make sure that the HSE routines are observed and followed during commissioning activities
  • Legal Obligation Management: Responsible for HSE legal obligations (environmental- and flammable and explosive goods permit, Swedish environment legislation and applicable EU-directives) in commissioning planning and identifying the key HSE obligations to achieve planned milestones in time
  • Meeting Participation: Take part and contribute to applicable coordination meetings, such as per block, with BAS-U, commissioning and toolbox
  • HSE Coordination: Act as a contact person and coordinator in HSE matters with other project disciplines (construction and manufacturing), contractors and vendors working in the same area as commissioning
  • Safety Walk Facilitation: Plan and facilitate safety walks for commissioning and start-up
  • Contractor Safety Monitoring: Monitor and follow up contractor's safety plans, risk assessments and method statement (RAMS) and Safe plan of action (SPA)
  • Technical Consultation: Consult the production engineers and discipline coordinators, and the area manager regarding deviations from project standards and other technical standards

24. HSE Engineer Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • HSE Plan Setup: Assist in the setup of the project HSE management plan
  • Incident System Administration: Administrate, monitor and support responsible managers in the incident handling system TIA
  • Risk Assessment Leadership: Initiate, lead and assist risk assessments related to commissioning and start-up activities
  • Risk Analysis Management: Identify, quality check, conduct and follow up on risk analyses performed by contractors, vendors and Northvolt for the daily work
  • Rule Violation Reporting: Identify and report violations of HSE rules to Program management
  • HSE Process Training: Train the commissioning organisation in HSE processes
  • Event Escalation: Prepare escalation and sharing of HSE events
  • Incident Investigation: Lead or participate in HSE incident investigations
  • HSE Support: Assist in various needs of HSE support for commissioning and start-up organisation

25. HSE Engineer Roles and Details

  • HSE Operations Leadership: Lead the day-to-day activities of the site HSE operating system
  • Team Priority Direction: Direct priorities of the HSE team based on risks
  • Standards Implementation: Implement HSE&F standards
  • Compliance Review: Responsible for site compliance reviews
  • Standards Compliance: Ensure compliance with standards
  • Waste Identification: Hazardous Waste Identification
  • Coaching and Role Modeling: Responsible for effective coach and role model
  • Risk Management: Responsible for risk management processes

26. HSE Engineer General Responsibilities

  • BAT/ALARP Study: Perform BAT/ALARP studies
  • Consultant Meeting Management: Responsible for consultant meetings
  • Calculation and Optimization: Perform computer calculations, interpretation and optimization of results
  • Code and Law Documentation: Prepare and maintain HSE information on Codes, Standards and International/Country laws
  • Philosophy and Plan Development: Prepare and maintain HSE Philosophies and Execution/Management Plans
  • Design Study Preparation: Prepare and maintain HSE design studies
  • Specification Preparation: Prepare HSE design specifications for project scope, including equipment, lines and instruments
  • HSE Review Participation: Participate in HSE screening/review meetings and communications with other disciplines to verify and ensure that HSE requirements are well understood and properly taken care of by all concerned
  • Fire Safety Design: Prepare and maintain Fire Safety Systems Design
  • Human Factors Documentation: Prepare and maintain Human Factors Engineering documents

27. QHSE Engineer Roles

  • QHSE Awareness Promotion: Promote Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental (QHSE) awareness, actively advising the line organisation on QHSE-related matters and facilitating QHSE training/familiarisation
  • Tender and Project Support: Support with QHSE-related topics in the tender, implementation and project phase, such as HIRA, etc
  • Management System Development: Assist in the development and maintenance of the company management systems
  • Documentation and Procedure Implementation: Initiate, implement and maintain QHSE documentation and procedures
  • QHSE Training and Advice: Support, training and advice to implement the correct level of QHSE awareness
  • Document Compliance Monitoring: Monitor project-related QHSE documents, ensure compliance with project, company and local legislative QHSE requirements
  • Risk Assessment Planning: Plan, carry out and follow up risk assessments and plans
  • Data Analysis and Reporting: Data capture, analysis and reporting on QHSE performance

28. QHSE Engineer Role Purpose

  • Incident Investigation: Investigate incidents, analysing, assessing corrective measures and monitoring the implementation of corrective measures
  • Recurrence Prevention: Assist in the implementation of activities to prevent recurrence
  • Non-conformance Close-out: Monitor and ensure the timely close-out of non-conformances and audit reports and carry out investigations
  • QHSE Reporting: QHSE Reporting and analysis (as summaries of incidents, non-conformance and audit reports and QHSE statistics)
  • Audit Planning and Execution: Plan and carry out internal, project and subcontractor QHSE audits
  • External Audit Assistance: Assist in external audits
  • Legislation Translation: Translate and provide information about new legislation, regulations and corporate guidelines and implement
  • Target Achievement: Realise targets within the QHSE year plan

29. QHSE Engineer Duties

  • QHSE Compliance: Ensure full compliance with all the Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures
  • Management System Support: Provide support to the QHSE Manager with the QHSE Management Systems
  • Internal Audit Execution: Conduct internal audits for the QHSE processes
  • Root Cause Analysis: Identify root causes and implement actions to prevent the recurrence of issues
  • Waste Stream Management: Manage the business-relevant waste streams with proven knowledge of all applicable Environmental Legislation
  • Audit and Investigation Participation: Participate in internal audits, reports and investigations, supply quality issues and non-conforming material
  • Corrective Action Facilitation: Facilitate comprehensive Corrective Actions investigations into identified non-conformances
  • Customer Quality Support: Provide Customer Support for Quality-related issues
  • Data Reporting: Provide the QHSE Manager with weekly data
  • Department Liaison: Liaise with various engineering/manufacturing departments

30. HSE Engineer Accountabilities

  • HSE Culture Leadership: Lead a positive HSE culture and behaviour
  • Critical Behaviour Championing: Champion the Critical Safety Behaviours Programme, setting the tone and leading by example
  • Policy Compliance: Operate within standardised HSE policies, processes and systems
  • Strategy Implementation Support: Support the implementation of the operational elements of the HSE strategy, as well as support specific HSE activities
  • HSE Coordination: Interface with colleagues in HSE to coordinate the local HSE services and provide advice
  • Management System Support: Support project leadership in implementing the management system
  • Project HSE Planning: Responsible for the coordination, preparation and delivery of the Project HSE Plan
  • Client Liaison: Liaise with the Client on HSE matters and participate in relevant Client HSE meetings
  • Regulatory Compliance Assurance: Help ensure all project activities meet all HSE regulatory requirements and the Client's requirements
  • Performance Tracking: Track project HSE performance and trends, and report on a monthly basis
  • Lessons Learned Implementation: Ensure HSEQ capitalises on Lessons Learned and is performed in accordance with best practice, striving to mitigate risk, promoting safety and integrity consistently
  • Tendering Process Support: Provide support and input to the tendering process
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