Role: Specialist Inspector - Offshore Human Factors
Location: Aberdeen Preferable and UK – Wide as well
Duration: Permanent Job
Role Type: Hybrid
Salary: Depending on experience
Role Overview
A Senior Human Factors Role Influencing the Safety of the UK’s Energy Sector.
We are recruiting an experienced Human Factors specialist to join a leading national regulatory organisation responsible for the safety of the UK’s offshore energy industry, including oil & gas and emerging Net Zero technologies such as carbon capture and floating wind.
This is a high-impact role for a senior practitioner who wants to apply their technical expertise at system and industry level, shaping how major accident risks are controlled across complex, high-hazard operations.
About the Role
In this specialist role, you will:
* Act as a subject matter expert assessing safety cases and major hazard risk controls
* Undertake onshore and offshore inspections as part of multi-disciplinary teams
* Lead and support incident investigations, enforcement activity and legal proceedings
* Prepare technical reports and expert evidence for regulatory and court use
* Provide expert advice to industry, internal teams and external stakeholders
* Influence the design of control rooms, interfaces, procedures and safety-critical systems
You will typically travel offshore 6–8 times per year, spending 2–3 nights offshore per trip.
Essential Experience & Expertise
We are seeking candidates with substantial Human Factors experience in:
* Offshore oil & gas or
* Another major accident hazard industry (e.g. nuclear, chemicals, aviation, rail, process safety)
You should have strong practical experience in:
* Applying Human Factors to engineering design and modification projects
* Human Reliability Analysis (qualitative and quantitative) in major accident risk contexts
* HF methods covering fatigue, workload, procedures, staffing, organisational change and investigations
* Working confidently with frontline operations through to senior management
* Writing formal technical reports and presenting to technical audiences
Qualifications & Professional Status (Essential)
You must hold:
* A degree in Engineering or Psychology plus a relevant postgraduate qualification in HF / Ergonomics / Occupational Psychology.
And be:
* Chartered / Registered with CIEHF OR
* Chartered with BPS and registered with HCPC
* (Candidates eligible for chartership within 6 months may be considered.)
Practical Requirements
* Willing and able to work offshore regularly.
* Able to pass offshore medical and survival training (BOSIET / MIST)
* Full UK driving licence (or viable alternative)
* Right to work in the UK (no sponsorship available)
* Minimum 3 years continuous UK residency
What’s on Offer
* Senior specialist salary and market supplement.
* A generously defined benefit pension
* Structured specialist training and ongoing CPD
* Flexible and hybrid working
* Nationally influential technical role.
Ideal Candidate Snapshot
* A chartered Human Factors specialist from offshore or major hazard industries, expert in human reliability and HF in engineering design, comfortable working offshore and acting as an independent technical authority in a regulatory environment.
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