Oil Spill Response Inspector

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Oil Spill Response Inspector

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Contract

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

• 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.
• Escalate ineffective containment, secondary pollution, wildlife/community risk, unsafe practices, or gaps in equipment and personnel capability.
• Verify inventory, maintenance, inspection tags, calibration, deployment readiness, access routes, and mobilisation arrangements against response plans.
• During an incident, inspect source-control support, containment, recovery, transfer, temporary storage, shoreline/land protection, and cleanup activities.
• Participate in drills and exercises, observe deployment and command interfaces, record gaps, and track improvement actions.
• Inspect spill-response bases, kits, booms, skimmers, pumps, tanks, sorbents, PPE, communications, boats/vehicles, and support equipment for availability and serviceability.
• Verify recovered oil, contaminated soil/water, sorbents, and debris are classified, contained, transported, and handed over to approved waste routes.
• Prepare daily inspection summaries, demobilisation checks, after-action findings, and auditable evidence for regulatory and management review.

Key Performance Measures

• Drill and inspection findings closed by target dates.
• Response equipment available and serviceable.
• Recovered material and waste fully traceable.
• No avoidable secondary pollution or unsafe response practice.
• Incident inspection records complete and timely.

Qualifications and Experience
Minimum Requirements:

• Strong observation, photographic documentation, record keeping, and calm stakeholder communication.
• Typically 5 or more years of environmental inspection, oil-spill response, emergency response, marine operations, pipeline operations, or HSE experience.
• Physical capability to work outdoors, near water, in remote terrain, and during extended emergency-response operations.
• Practical knowledge of containment/recovery equipment, field documentation, waste handling, environmental protection, and incident command interfaces.
• HND or bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Marine Studies, Occupational Safety, or a related discipline.

Preferred Certifications and Standards Knowledge:

• Boat/water safety, first aid, HAZWOPER/hazardous-material, sampling, or waste-management training is desirable according to deployment.
• Recognised oil-spill response or incident-command training is strongly preferred.
• NEBOSH or equivalent HSE certification is advantageous.

Core Competencies:

• Response equipment readiness inspection.
• Environmental and waste-chain traceability.
• Safe contractor and community interface.
• Emergency field documentation.
• Containment, recovery, and cleanup surveillance.

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.