Senior Technical Safety Engineer
About The Role
Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Would you like to work within a friendly and inclusive team? We have an exciting opportunity working within both new and existing projects, creating bespoke, safe and cost-effective engineering solutions for our clients within the energy sector.
If you are passionate about Engineering, have some energy industry experience, or have transferable skills, then we would love to hear from you.
Optimus are looking for Senior Technical Safety Engineer to support the Lead Engineer with various Studies and Deliverables, including:
- Provision of technical assurance across the technical safety and loss prevention activities and deliverables on a few green projects as well as brownfield oil and gas jobs
- Leading and coordinating the activities and deliverables allocated to the location in accordance with the project schedule.
- Gathering & compiling process safety and environmental information.
- Preparaing a Safety Engineering Plan and Basis of Design Execution of Hazard Studies Undertaking Technical Safety Reviews such as Human factors, Hazardous Area Classification, Inherent Safety, Alarm Prioritisation, Fault Tree Analysis etc
- Fire risk analysis
- Heat load calculation according NFPA, Escape Route Drawings, Pollution prevention plan & waste management plans, Escape evacuation & rescue analysis
- Hazardous area classification documents and Drawings), SECE Impact Assessments, Safety Case Impact Assessments ALARP Assessments
- Checking that all required Technical Safety Reviews are completed
- At the end of each project phase, ensure that all lists, files reports, etc. are filed correctly, ready for input to the next project phase
- To act as the Technical Safety SME on the project work package, supporting the Process and Safety team leader, project management and engineering disciplines with design HSE concerns and queries
- To support other Optimus Aberdeen projects with requests for Technical Safety assistance on an Ad-Hoc basis
- To support Client requests for discrete Technical Safety activities, e.g., HAZOP Chair
About You
Our ideal candidate will have effective communication skills, enjoy team working, will be customer and quality focused, can use their own initiative and will be responsive to our business and client needs. We’d like you to have an engineering degree and significant previous experience in a Technical Safety role. You need to have experience and an interest in working with proprietary software, such as PHAST, and have exposure to people management and development.
About Us
We are all about practical delivery. Our expert engineering solutions are always tailored, pragmatic, credible and fit for purpose. That is the Optimus way.
Optimus is an integrated, multi-discipline engineering design, project delivery and consultancy organisation. Founded in 1999, the business began as a consultancy with a headcount of just four. In the intervening years, Optimus has grown into a highly respected international engineering consultancy with almost 100 employees working for clients worldwide.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status.