Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Job Family Group:

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

June 1, 2026

Business Unit:

Upstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Whats the role

We are seeking a highly motivated S&E Operations Advisor to support our offshore operated assets in Brazil, including its associated marine and logistics supply chain.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the interface of operations, contractors, and leadership, contributing directly to safe, compliant, and efficient offshore performance. The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening safety and environment performance and practices, driving safety culture, and ensuring the effective implementation of environmental licensing commitments.

Accountabilities:

• Asset-Focused HSE Leadership: Act as the primary HSE focal point for an offshore asset, providing day-to-day support to operations and ensuring alignment with company standards and regulatory requirements.

• Regulatory Compliance & Environmental Licensing: Ensure adherence to Brazilian regulatory frameworks (e.g., IBAMA, ANP, NR standards) and support the implementation and tracking of post-license environmental and social commitments.

• Risk Management & Operational Excellence: Support the identification and management of operational risks through application of barrier management and critical control verification. Reinforce safe execution of key processes such as Permit to Work, SIMOPS, and Management of Change (MoC).

• Incident Investigation & Learning: Lead or contribute to incident investigations using structured methodologies (e.g., Causal Learning, Human Factors principles) and ensure insights are translated into actionable improvements.

• Performance & Insights: Maintain and analyze HSE data to identify trends (e.g., process safety, DROPS, line-of-fire) and provide insight-driven recommendations to improve operational performance.

• Contractor & Supply Chain Engagement: Work closely with offshore contractors and logistics providers to ensure alignment with HSE expectations and drive consistent performance across the value chain.

• Safety Culture & Human Factors: Support the deployment of Human Factors and Psychological Safety initiatives, fostering an open reporting culture and enabling continuous learning from both incidents and normal work.

• Stakeholder Interface: Act as a key link between offshore teams, onshore functions, HSE leadership, and regulatory stakeholders, supporting audits, inspections, and governance processes.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Brazil on a full-time basis for anyone other than the current employer

• Degree in Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Occupational Safety, or related discipline

• 5+ years in offshore oil & gas operations (FPSO experience is a plus)

• Strong knowledge of Brazilian HSE regulatory environment (IBAMA, ANP, NR standards)

• Experience in incident investigation and risk management methodologies

• Proven ability to influence, engage, and work effectively with multidisciplinary and contractor teams

• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into actionable insights

• Familiarity with Human Factors, safety culture, and learning organization concepts is an advantage

• Fluent in Portuguese and English

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. Youll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. Youll 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, 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.

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

Shell in Brazil

Who We Are

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, employing 85,000 people and with operations in more than 70 countries. We use advanced technologies and take an innovative approach as we seek to help the world build a sustainable energy future.

Shell is a customer-focused organisation, serving more than 1 million commercial and industrial customers, and around 33 million customers daily at more than 47,000 Shell-branded retail service stations.

Our approach

Shells strategy is to deliver more value with less emissions as we work to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050.

As we navigate the energy transition through the next decade, we will leverage our global footprint, the trust in our brand, and our innovation and technology capabilities to be the energy company that customers and countries choose to be their partner. We are positioning Shell to become the investment case and partner of choice through the energy transition.

Our values

At Shell, we share a set of core values honesty, integrity and respect for people which underpin all the work we do. The Shell General Business Principles, Code of Conduct and Ethics and Compliance Manual help everyone at Shell act in line with these values and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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