Senior Technical Safety Engineer
TR/078621
Posted: 30/07/2025
- PAYE - Competitive
- Scotland, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen
- Contract
Our client is currently recruiting for the position of Senior Technical Safety Engineer, based onshore in Aberdeen. This is an initial 12-month PAYE contract role but is a core role within the team and is therefore expected to be long term. Regular cover for the Manager/TA will be required, therefore they are ideally looking for a candidate with Senior/Manager/TA experience gained from an operator environment.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Temporary Position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/078621.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Responsibilities:
- Delivery of the Technical Safety workplan
- Day to day Technical Safety support to Operations (3 assets)
- Review and implementation of New Knowledge and Information
- Assuring Legislative Compliance including ALARP
- Continuous Improvement including Management System updates.
- Supporting Projects / Modifications including Technical Safety aspects for COMOPS
- Deliver the Technical Safety workplan to ensure effective support to the business.
- Develop and maintain positive and constructive relationships with key internal stakeholders e.g. OIMs, Asset Managers, O&M teams, D&C teams, etc.
- Carry out regular installation site visits to liaise with offshore personnel to build and maintain an effective working relationship with the offshore community.
- Be actively involved in regulator inspections attending technical meetings, reviewing regulator inspection findings as applicable.
- Ensure technical conformity and compliance with regulations, directives and company engineering standards.
- Delegate for the Technical Safety Manager / Technical Authority, as required.
- Represent the company on various external industry bodies with the purpose of keeping abreast of best industry practice, technical issues, new and revised regulation and guidance.
- Managing the asset Safety Cases in accordance with Safety Case Regulations
- Management and delivery of COMOPS notifications
- Upkeep of the QRA models and formal safety assessments supporting the major hazards assessment
- Delivering input to the MAH KPI Tool and monthly report
- Assessing the reportability of hydrocarbon releases
- Risk assessment procedures such as Non-Standard Operations NOPRAS, OPRA, SARA, etc
- Formal Safety Assessment procedures such as HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA etc
- Supporting the organisation in providing assurance of continued suitability of controls to MAH
- Setting technical standards for both safety & environmental critical and non-safety & environmental critical systems within their discipline
- Performing major accident hazard studies
- Updating and maintaining technical safety related Performance Standards
- Performing availability & reliability studies for SECEs
- Support day to day operations – ORAs, adhoc risk assessments, provide advice & guidance.
- Manage 3rd party consultant scopes of work.
- Understand and apply the principles of ALARP
- Understand and apply the principles of Process Safety Management
- Addressing in-service Verification Findings, as reported by the CPEL Independent Competent Person
- Addressing audit findings
- Supporting the audit & assurance programmes
- Provide input to the Engineering Management of Change process as required for modifications / projects
- TAR support
Qualifications:
- Degree in an appropriate Engineering or Science subject
- Chartered Engineer desirable
- Proven track record in delivering MAH management and Technical Safety Engineering across asset lifecycle
- Previous experience in a similar role, preferably gained within the oil and gas industry
- Proven track record of identifying and developing sound and innovative technical solutions
- Knowledge of associated technical/engineering disciplines
- Technical proficiency in IT programmes/systems e.g. Excel, SAP MMS, engineering software
- Familiar with UK industry regulations relating to the oil and gas industry
- Experience of dealing with regulators and industry workgroups
- Effective relationship-builder at all levels, internally and externally
- Effective communicator both written and verbal
- Proven track record of delivering to a deadline, a ‘Completer Finisher’
- Ability to take a plan or strategy and deliver it effectively, an ‘Implementer’
- Ability to make timely robust risk-based decisions based on partial information
Temporary Position
If you feel that you are well suited to the above opportunity and would like to find out more then please contact Orion Group for more information or apply by forwarding your current CV quoting reference: TR/078621.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Anna Fryer
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