The HR Advisor is a frontline HR business partner to operational leadership, responsible for workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, employee relations, talent management, succession planning and workforce risk management. The role enables leaders to make informed, compliant and commercially sound people decisions that support safe and efficient offshore operations.
Operating within the Seadrill OneHR model the role is responsible for delivering end‑to‑end HR processes, ensuring compliance with company policies and local regulations, and enabling line managers to effectively manage their people.
Acts as the frontline trusted advisor to Rig leadership, providing commercially and operationally grounded HR guidance on people matters.
Partners closely with rig leadership to shape workforce decisions, balancing operational priorities, cost, compliance, and employee experience.
Challenges and influences leadership thinking, providing constructive pushback where decisions create people, legal, or reputational risk, ensuring alignment with company standards and positive outcomes.
Supports the Talent CoE in delivery of performance management processes, ensuring consistency, quality, and timely completion.
Facilitates people committees and workforce planning discussions for assigned rigs, identifying future workforce requirements, capability gaps, succession risks, workforce availability constraints and emerging talent needs.
Coaches Rig Leadership to develop and maintain succession planning for business-critical positions including OIMs, Section Leaders, critical offshore roles or to bridge capability gaps, supporting workforce growth engaging support from the Talent CoE as needed.
Resolves routine employee relations issues early, coaching managers to take ownership on decision making and escalating complex or high-risk cases appropriately.
Maintains workforce continuity, proactively identifying workforce gaps and rotation risks, advising leadership on interventions to maintain operational continuity and minimise disruption.
Works with the Talent Centre of Excellence (CoE) on recruitment coordination, ensuring roles are filled in line with workforce plans, timelines, and company processes.
Drives quality and consistency in onboarding and offboarding, mitigating compliance risk and ensuring seamless integration into offshore operations.
Monitors workforce trends including turnover, retirement risk, internal mobility and critical skill shortages, recommending mitigation actions or plans.
Supports the Training and Competence CoE in managing training requirements, tracking compliance and advising Rig Leadership on training compliance gaps to drive actions to maintain regulatory, client, and Seadrill standards.
Works with People Services and HR Technology to drive data integrity and governance across workforce systems to ensure accurate reporting, workforce planning and audit readiness.
Utilises HR analytics, AI tools, Power BI dashboards and workforce reporting to provide actionable insights on turnover trends, retention risks, workforce costs, successor readiness, capability gaps and workforce availability.
Coaches leaders on applying company policies, employment legislation and fair people practices, ensuring consistency and fairness in application and proactively identifying and managing risks.
Drives local implementation of HR initiatives, ensuring alignment with operational realities and measurable impact. Identifies operational inefficiencies and improvements, influencing process enhancements across HR and operations.
Supports organisational change initiatives, workforce transitions and restructuring activities where required, coaching Leaders on processes, behaviours and discussions required to mitigate risk to Seadrill.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
• 3+ years HR generalist experience
• Strong employee relations and employment law knowledge
• Experience supporting operational or field-based environments
• Ability to coach and influence line managers
• HR systems, AI and data literacy (e.g. Oracle HCM, CoPilot, PowerBi)
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
Desired
• Offshore drilling / oil & gas Industry experience
• Experience supporting remote or rotational workforce models
• Exposure to international workforce planning and mobility
• Experience in highly regulated environments
Minimum Requirements
• Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related discipline
• Relevant HR experience in operational environments
Preferred
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent professional qualification
• Advanced HR certifications or specialist training
SAFETY AT SEADRILL
Our goal is to ensure that ‘nobody gets hurt' whilst performing their job. Everyone at Seadrill has a part to play in meeting our safety commitment.
Through strong leadership and personal responsibility from all employees, we take a systematic approach to identifying, managing and preventing the hazards involved in our day to day operations.
Nothing is more important to us than the health, safety and security of our workforce and the communities in which we operate and behaving responsibly towards our shared environment.
We are vigilant, disciplined and always looking out for one another. We have developed and embedded a strong safety culture onshore and offshore, fostered by all employees, who each have a personal responsibility and the authority to put an immediate stop to the job if they believe it to be unsafe.
Everyone at Seadrill is accountable for helping to build this culture of care. This includes:
SEADRILL BEHAVIORAL FRAMEWORK
In Seadrill, setting the standard is not just about what we deliver, but how we deliver it. We co-created our Behavioral Framework with our employees, where we identified four key competencies that define our culture and help us to live our values. Our behaviors are embedded in the way we work and support and guide us day to day:
We recognize that our people are key to helping us to achieve our vision, so we have fostered a culture that encourages, supports and celebrates diversity of all kinds. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we operate in.
JOIN SEADRILL
We value our people and want to retain them. So, we offer a competitive package built around an attractive base salary and a range of benefits tailored to your location.
Join Seadrill. Own the Opportunity.
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Seadrill is a leading offshore drilling contractor providing offshore drilling services to the oil and gas industry.