Health & Safety Advisor - Operations

About the role

This is a 12-month field-based assignment in Lake Charles, Louisiana, supporting safe, compliant, and reliable midstream operations across pipeline, compression, storage, and measurement environments. The role combines regulatory compliance, emergency response support, and practical safety leadership across operational assets.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to inspections, risk assessments, incident investigations, and high-risk work planning in a technically demanding oil and gas setting.
• Support pipeline maintenance, compressor station operations, and storage facilities.
• Work across field operations involving pipeline rights of way, compressor stations, storage facilities, and measurement sites.
• Support incident investigations, corrective action tracking, and closure verification.
• Provide field-level health and safety support, including permit-to-work, energy isolation/LOTO, hot work, confined space entry, excavation, line breaking, atmospheric testing, SIMOPS, and work at heights.
• Conduct inspections, audits, behavioral observations, and hazard identification activities.
• Maintain health and safety metrics, trends, and reporting for operational leadership.
• Participate in risk assessments, work planning, and management of change reviews.
• Perform industrial hygiene monitoring, including noise, atmospheric testing, heat stress, and confined space monitoring.
• Support emergency preparedness, drills, and ICS/NIMS-aligned response activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, industrial hygiene, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of safety experience in midstream, pipeline, oil and gas, or energy operations.

Skills

• Strong knowledge of PHMSA pipeline safety regulations and OSHA 1910.
• Ability to provide field-level health and safety support across operational midstream assets.
• Capability to support high-risk work planning and field verification.
• Experience conducting inspections, audits, behavioral observations, and hazard identification.
• Experience maintaining health and safety metrics, trends, and reporting.
• Ability to participate in risk assessments, work planning, and management of change reviews.
• Knowledge of industrial hygiene monitoring (noise, atmospheric testing, heat stress, confined space).
• Ability to support emergency preparedness, drills, and ICS/NIMS-aligned response activities.
• Strong communication, coaching, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, Power BI, and safety management systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• CHST, ASP, CSP, OHST, or equivalent safety certification.
• Experience with integrity digs, pigging campaigns, outages, or major maintenance events.
• ICS/NIMS training, including ICS-100, 200, 700, and 800.
• Incident investigation experience and strong report-writing skills.