Western Australia, Australia
Job Family Group:
Health, Safety, Security, and Environment
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
October 5, 2026
Business Unit:
Integrated Gas
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
Where You Fit In
Prelude FLNG is committed to delivering safe, reliable, and environmentally responsible operations while protecting our people, contractors, assets, and reputation. As the HSSE Team Lead, you will provide visible leadership and strategic direction for operational safety performance offshore.
Reporting to the HSSE Manager, you will lead a team of HSSE professionals supporting Prelude's offshore operations and partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, Marine, Projects, and Contractor leadership teams. You will strengthen safety culture, improve operational discipline, enhance risk management, and drive continuous improvement across all aspects of the business.
You will play a key role in maintaining the effectiveness of the Safety Management System, strengthening assurance and governance processes, improving operational learning, and ensuring critical risks and associated controls are effectively managed. Acting as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, you will provide constructive challenge to ensure risks are managed in accordance with regulatory requirements, industry good practice, and the Shell Control Framework.
As a senior HSSE leader, you will role model Shell's values, foster an inclusive and psychologically safe environment, and build a culture of accountability, care, learning, and operational excellence.
What You'll Do
Safety Leadership & Risk Management
- Provide leadership and strategic direction to support safe, reliable, and efficient offshore operations.
- Promote visible safety leadership and workforce engagement to continuously improve operational and personal safety performance.
- Ensure operational risks are effectively identified, assessed, and controlled through robust risk management practices.
- Champion the effectiveness of critical risk controls and support barrier management activities associated with major accident hazards.
- Drive the implementation of learning from incidents, audits, inspections, and industry events to prevent recurrence and improve risk controls.
Assurance & Compliance
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on compliance with HSSE standards, legislation, and regulatory obligations.
- Monitor HSSE performance indicators, identify trends, and provide insights to improve decision-making and operational performance.
- Act as a focal point for relevant HSSE requirements, ensuring standards remain current, implemented, and effectively assured.
Continuous Improvement
- Embed Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) principles across the asset to strengthen learning, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Lead initiatives focused on reducing risk, simplifying processes, and improving the effectiveness of HSSE systems and work practices.
- Foster a culture that encourages reporting, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive improvements through the effective use of performance data, assurance findings, and operational insights.
Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of HSSE professionals.
- Build HSSE capability across the asset by strengthening operational leadership skills, risk awareness, and understanding of safety requirements.
- Promote a culture of trust, inclusion, accountability, and continuous development.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with regulators, contractors, industry bodies, joint venture partners, and internal stakeholders.
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE excellence and a strong personal commitment to care for people.
- Minimum 10 years' experience in HSSE leadership or a role with significant operational safety accountability within high-hazard industries such as Oil & Gas, Energy, Mining, Petrochemicals, or Heavy Industry.
- Proven experience supporting frontline operations and improving operational safety performance in complex operating environments.
- Strong knowledge of Safety Management Systems, operational risk management, assurance processes, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Sound understanding of major accident hazard management, critical risk controls, and barrier management principles.
- Experience leading and developing teams while fostering a high-performance and inclusive culture.
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and operational teams to drive behavioural and organisational change.
- Strong analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate insights into practical operational improvements.
- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.
- Passion for operational excellence, simplification, continuous improvement, and delivering sustainable HSSE outcomes.
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 organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national 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).
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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 125-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.
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