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Safety Advisor

What’s the role

As a Prelude Safety Advisor, you will work onshore integrating safety delivery into the asset operations and improvement plans. You’ll thrive on providing challenge, fit-for-purpose solutions, insights and learnings, simplifying ways of working, and directly supporting our operations. You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, demonstrating exceptional teamwork and a commitment to a learner mindset.

What you’ll be doing

Specifically, your role will include:

  • Championing and Role Modelling HSE Leadership: Strengthen, coach, and drive a positive and disciplined HSE culture within the asset.

  • Developing, Implementing, and Monitoring Turnaround HSE Plan(s): Create and execute comprehensive HSE plans for turnaround events, covering all phases from strategy definition to execution and to post-event reviews for future improvements. This involves participating in work plan and schedule reviews to ensure HSE aspects are integrated into work method statements and Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs).

  • Driving Safety Improvements: Lead initiatives to enhance safety performance and foster a culture of safety through active partnerships with the frontline, contractors, and wider business.

  • Work Preparation: Support HAZID reviews of planned major maintenance to identify opportunities for improved safety and environment outcomes. Ensure work scope planning aligns with company HSE requirements, safety case, and environmental plan obligations.

  • On-Site HSE Direction and Support: Provide direction and support to frontline work teams (during turnaround and otherwise), including assurances and coaching.

  • Fostering Collaboration: Act as the interface between onshore, offshore, and leadership teams, driving effective communication and teamwork across all levels.

  • Drive Process Improvements: Identify, implement, and monitor process improvements aimed at enhancing safety performance.

This role is located in Perth (Shell House) with the expectation for offshore travel during turnaround events and as required.

What you bring

When it comes to nurturing collaborative stakeholder relations, your interpersonal and influencing people skills will make a difference. You will inspire people to make changes that will have a direct impact on our success. Furthermore, you will have:

  • Deep Commitment to Goal Zero: Demonstrated dedication to achieving zero incidents and taking personal responsibility for safety outcomes.

  • HSE Experience: Proven experience in operational safety having worked with operational teams to positively impact safety culture, either within a HSE capacity or other operational roles

  • HSE Experience in Turnaround/Major Maintenance: Experience working in turnaround/major maintenance events - preferably in a HSE capacity.

  • Contractor HSE Management: Skilled in managing contractor HSE, ensuring assurance, and conducting thorough incident investigations and learning ()

  • High Levels of Self-Motivation: Proven ability to tackle unique, complex problems and develop effective solutions, including the creation and delivery of specialised programs.

  • Strong Interpersonal and Presentation Skills: Ability to connect proactively with stakeholders across the asset, fostering collaboration and communication.

  • Relentless Drive for Simplification and Improvement: Constantly seeking ways to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.

  • Process Improvement and Coordination: Experience in implementing and continuously improving internal processes, with strong coordination skills to manage, assess, and proactively provide information to support the broader business.

APPLICATION PERIOD WILL RUN UNTIL APRIL 23.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

  • Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

  • Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

  • Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

  • Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

  • Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

  • Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

  • Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

  • Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

  • Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, , and life experiences to apply.

  • Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in and

  • international teams.

  • Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell in Australia

Shell has operated in Australia since 1901. From operating Australia’s first oil refinery, which was central to meeting Australia’s fuel needs, to fuelling the first Qantas commercial flight in the 1920s, to playing a foundation role in building some of Australia’s largest and most innovative natural resource developments.

Throughout this 124-year relationship the needs of our customers and the nation have changed and we have continued transforming our portfolio to meet these needs. Today, we are a leading natural gas producer and are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities.

Shell has a significant Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business in Australia that makes a valuable contribution to today’s energy supply. This integrated gas portfolio includes our two Shell-operated gas production and liquefaction businesses, Shell QGC in Queensland and Prelude Floating LNG offshore in Western Australia, and our joint venture interests in Gorgon and North West Shelf in Western Australia and Arrow Energy in Queensland.

Today, Shell’s portfolio in Australia also includes zero- and low-carbon energy businesses such as commercial and industrial retailer, Shell Energy carbon farming specialist, Select Carbon the 120MW Gangarri solar development; residential energy retailer, Powershop Australia a 49% stake in WestWind Australia a 50% share of Kondinin Energy and several grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Solutions projects. High quality Shell branded fuels and lubricants are available right across Australia, through an exclusive brand license arrangement with Viva Energy.

Safety Advisor

Australia
Full time

Published on 04/10/2025

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