Consultant, Crisis - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Restrata

Description

You will work with a team of experienced individuals to provide a range of crisis management consultancy, training, exercises and response services to clients globally. As a consultant, you will manage work to be delivered to individual clients, in accordance with the agreed scope, on time, and within budget. By building strong relationship with clients and developing a network, you will expand opportunities with current clients, and develop business with new clients.

This position is located in our Aberdeen office full time. Prior experience in Emergency, Incident or Crisis response situations essential, preferably in the Energy sector.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include:

• Creating and following up on business opportunities with clients,
• Undertaking development work from Restrata's offices,
• Delivering work at clients' offices or facilities,
• Developing and delivering training courses,
• Designing and delivering exercises,
• Reviewing existing client policy, procedures and plans,
• Producing Emergency Response Plans, Incident Management Plans, and Crisis Management Plans,
• Being part of the Restrata Incident Management Team on call rota.

Other examples of work include:

• Writing and reviewing major accident hazard scenarios,
• Conducting training needs analysis,
• Producing and managing training programmes.

The Individual:

The individual will be expected to be technically competent and an effective Consultant, able to demonstrate knowledge of major accident hazards and specialist skills in major emergency management, emergency response, crisis management, media response and relative response.

To this end, the individual should have:

Essential experience:

• Experience in designing and delivering Emergency, Incident and Crisis Management exercises,
• Experience in reviewing Emergency, Incident and Crisis Management plans,
• Exposure to Emergency, Incident or Crisis response situations.

Desirable skills and experience:

• 5 – 10 years' experience in the field,
• Preferred Higher Education level – HND / BSc,
• Previous Energy Sector experience,
• Good initiative and ability to work independently or part of a team,
• Experience of working on International Projects.
• Proven project management and report writing skills,
• Excellent communications skills and facilitation skills working at all levels.

In addition, the individual should be:

• A team player, capable of forward planning or reacting to short timescales,
• Excellent verbal / communication & influencing skills,
• Familiar with key developments in HSE regulations and ER good practice,
• An experienced and capable user of information technology and common operating environment applications,
• Progressive with the development of new or innovative methods of service line deliverables.