HSEQ Data Services Lead

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.