Role Purpose
Inspect oil-spill preparedness and field response activities to verify that containment, recovery, shoreline/land protection, waste handling, equipment readiness, and response records meet approved plans, environmental requirements, and safe-work controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Inspect spill-response bases, kits, booms, skimmers, pumps, tanks, sorbents, PPE, communications, boats/vehicles, and support equipment for availability and serviceability.
- Verify inventory, maintenance, inspection tags, calibration, deployment readiness, access routes, and mobilisation arrangements against response plans.
- Participate in drills and exercises, observe deployment and command interfaces, record gaps, and track improvement actions.
- During an incident, inspect source-control support, containment, recovery, transfer, temporary storage, shoreline/land protection, and cleanup activities.
- Monitor contractor practices, exclusion zones, ignition control, water safety, manual handling, decontamination, and use of suitable PPE.
- Document affected areas, response tactics, recovered volumes, equipment use, waste streams, photographs, coordinates, samples, and chain of custody as assigned.
- Verify recovered oil, contaminated soil/water, sorbents, and debris are classified, contained, transported, and handed over to approved waste routes.
- Escalate ineffective containment, secondary pollution, wildlife/community risk, unsafe practices, or gaps in equipment and personnel capability.
- Prepare daily inspection summaries, demobilisation checks, after-action findings, and auditable evidence for regulatory and management review.
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements
- HND or bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Marine Studies, Occupational Safety, or a related discipline.
- Typically 5 or more years of environmental inspection, oil-spill response, emergency response, marine operations, pipeline operations, or HSE experience.
- Practical knowledge of containment/recovery equipment, field documentation, waste handling, environmental protection, and incident command interfaces.
- Physical capability to work outdoors, near water, in remote terrain, and during extended emergency-response operations.
- Strong observation, photographic documentation, record keeping, and calm stakeholder communication.
Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge
- Recognised oil-spill response or incident-command training is strongly preferred.
- NEBOSH or equivalent HSE certification is advantageous.
- Boat/water safety, first aid, HAZWOPER/hazardous-material, sampling, or waste-management training is desirable according to deployment.
Core Competencies
- Response equipment readiness inspection
- Containment, recovery, and cleanup surveillance
- Environmental and waste-chain traceability
- Emergency field documentation
- Safe contractor and community interface
Key Performance Measures
- Response equipment available and serviceable
- Drill and inspection findings closed by target dates
- Incident inspection records complete and timely
- Recovered material and waste fully traceable
- No avoidable secondary pollution or unsafe response practice
Reporting and Interfaces
Internal interfaces: HSE/environment, emergency response, operations, pipeline/terminal teams, security, logistics, medical, and community relations.
External interfaces: Response contractors, regulators, waste contractors, laboratories, marine providers, landowners/communities, and specialist advisers.
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