Senior Safety Specialist

About the role

The Senior HSE Specialist leads and coordinates health and safety efforts for assigned regions, operating areas, or business activities; serves as a senior safety resource to field teams and operations leadership; leads complex investigations, compliance activities, and risk management efforts; drives regional implementation and improvement of HSE programs and standards; and partners with leadership to strengthen performance, consistency, and compliance with internal standards and external regulations in support of business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provides senior health and safety leadership and support for assigned assets, regions, or business activities; coaches employees and contractors; coordinates local initiatives; and serves as a primary resource for technical safety questions.
• Leads implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of HSE programs, standards, procedures, and alerts for assigned operations, ensuring alignment with company requirements and applicable regulations.
• Uses field and company-wide safety data, trends, and input to identify, prioritize, and implement improvement opportunities; supports performance reporting; and drives regional continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leads compliance reviews, inspections, program assessments, audits, and regulatory interactions for assigned regions or locations; and helps ensure required protective equipment, tools, and systems are effective and consistently applied.
• Leads the incident investigation and reporting process for assigned regions, including significant events and contractor incidents; oversees injury and illness case management; drives corrective and preventive actions; and communicates key lessons learned.
• Leads risk management activities with field teams, including hazard recognition, risk assessment planning, JSAs/JHAs/PJSMs, safe work permitting for high-risk tasks, and verification of critical controls and safe work practices.
• Provides subject matter expertise for inspections, audits, and readiness reviews for complex or high-risk work; promotes best practices; compiles reports; and makes recommendations to improve overall safety performance.
• Manages contractor safety interfaces for assigned operations, including vendor qualification support, contractor engagement, contractor performance reviews, contractor safety meetings, and Drug and Alcohol testing program coordination.
• Acts as a key point of contact with local and regional regulatory agencies regarding inspection programs, compliance activities, and follow-up actions and fosters positive working relationships during agency interactions.
• Develops, coordinates, and delivers safety training, orientations, and meeting content; coaches field leaders on expectations and performance improvement; and supports knowledge sharing across operations.
• Collaborates with operations, maintenance, engineering, and other HSE disciplines to integrate safety into planning and execution, improve processes, and support a proactive safety culture.
• Leads or supports cross-functional alignment efforts, regional consistency initiatives, and implementation of broader HSE expectations, tools, and practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of applicable safety rules, regulations, and standards (e.g., OSHA, API, DOT/PHMSA, NFPA) and company HSE requirements, with ability to apply them across assigned field and operational environments.
• Strong proficiency in incident response and investigation, injury and illness case management, and use of safety data and trends to drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Skilled in hazard recognition and mitigation, risk assessment planning and facilitation, safe work permitting for high-risk tasks, contractor engagement, emergency response, and safety audits and inspections.
• Demonstrates strong computer skills, including use of safety and incident management systems, compliance management systems, data management tools, reporting tools, and standard office software.
• Able to develop, coordinate, and deliver clear safety training, orientations, and meeting content, and present safety performance, trends, and initiatives to leadership and field teams.
• Demonstrates the ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across multiple assets, teams, contractors, and leadership groups.
• Demonstrates working capability to lead projects, facilitate teams, and coordinate regional safety initiatives with limited supervision.
• Communicates effectively – developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Plans and aligns – planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Manages complexity – making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures accountability – holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives results – consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Action oriented – taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Situational adaptability – adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma (or GED).
• Minimum of eight (8) years of H&S or E&P related experience.
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable MVR.
• Ability to pass a respiratory fit test, if applicable to route, location, or assignment.
• An acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• E&P and multi-site H&S support experience.
• HSE Certification (CSP, CIH, CHMM, OHST or a related discipline).
• Strong knowledge of production, completions, and drilling.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stoop, stand, walk, pull, carry instruments, and climb stairs and ladders for an extended period of time.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 30 lbs. without assistance.
• Capable of driving distances of 150 miles or more per day during all types of weather conditions.
• Ability to one arm carry up to 25 lbs. without assistance.
• Regular bending, crouching, pulling, and kneeling to check equipment and gauges.
• Must be able to exert up to 40 lbs. of force occasionally and up to 20 lbs. frequently to move or manipulate objects.
• Ability to work significant amounts of time as required in completing job responsibilities.
• Working environment includes exposure to extremely loud noises in the field, hazardous chemicals, and hydrocarbons that may be under extreme pressure for which appropriate safety measures are required.
• The ability to inspect and have close visual acuity to perform activities.
• Ability to work outside in adverse weather conditions for extended periods of time safely.
• Work safely with machinery and equipment.