Lead Technical Safety Engineer

Job description / Role

Responsibilities

• Provide integrity assurance of process designs through appropriate application of Shell technical standards and specifications, implementation of DCAF and review of design deliverables and activities.
• Ensure schedule and cost considerations are included in design decisions, while maintaining primary responsibility to assure safe and appropriate quality designs.
• Ensure repeated delivery of projects with HSSE & SP risks demonstrably managed to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP), creating a workplace without harm.
• Ensure technical HSE engineering activities are executed in alignment with Shell's Project Delivery Roadmap and Opportunity Realization Process.
• Validate strategies and conceptual designs during early project phases.
• Support company in auditing construction field activities for compliance and assist in resolution of field non-conformance issues as required.
• Ensure design meets requirements of Shell's HSSE Framework.
• Design and develop, as required, innovative technical approaches to the broader technical HSE engineering issues and contribute to continuous business improvement initiatives (Fit for Purpose).
• Deliver integrated HSE risk management support including hazard identification, major hazard assessment, developing HSE cases and contributing to layout reviews, human factors and health risk assessments, ESH impact assessment, as part of the Hazards and Effects Management Process across the full lifecycle of the projects.
• Identification and communication of HSSE best practices.
• Provide a one-stop shop technical HSE engineering support and delivery in accordance with the HSSE & SP Control Framework and associated standards, guidelines and relevant regulatory safety requirements for QPH projects.
• Accountability for technical HSE engineering deliverables and engineering execution planning support including provision of senior engineering expertise.
• Proactively work with the Engineering Manager to keep projects on track and achieve Top Quartile (TQ) performance for the portfolio.
• Drive and deliver ever-increasing effectiveness and efficiency in producing project designs, through elimination, simplification, standardisation and automation balanced against the need for Top Quartile FEL in, and quality designs for the Qatar Project Delivery Hub projects.

Qualifications

• BSc., University degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.

Technical skills

• Minimum 15 years' experience in brownfield oil and gas related technical HSE design and engineering, of which minimum 5 years' experience in brownfield oil and gas project delivery as an umbrella contract.
• Lead technical HSE engineer function in a multidisciplinary workforce.
• Performs as a professional technical HSE engineer for projects and plant modifications from front end development through execution, commissioning and start-up.
• Fully conversant with quantitative risk and consequences simulation software such as PHAST risk, FRED (must).
• Experience of working on Shell projects will be a distinct added advantage.
• Good communication skills and report writing skills; experience of writing technical reports is essential.
• Experience in the Middle East; knowledge of GTL, gas processing and utilities are an advantage, as is front end, commissioning experience and execution.
• Proven leadership skills and strong personal drive to meet deadlines and specific targets.
• Experienced HAZID / HAZOP Secretary (must).

About the Company

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.