Sr. Safety Engineer

Overview:
The Senior Safety Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership and engineering support in the areas of process safety, loss prevention, and fire protection for process facilities and projects. The position applies engineering principles, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and risk-based methodologies to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and develop practical engineering solutions that protect personnel, assets, the environment, and business continuity.  
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 12 years of relevant engineering experience, with demonstrated expertise in process safety and fire protection within the oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, hydrogen, energy, or related process industries.  
This position serves as a senior technical resource and is expected to independently execute complex engineering assignments, lead safety studies, develop engineering deliverables, interface with clients and multidisciplinary engineering teams, and provide  
technical guidance to other engineers.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in process hazard analyses and risk assessments, including  
  HAZID, HAZOP, What-If/Checklist, LOPA, and other qualitative and semi- quantitative risk assessments.  
• Evaluate process hazards involving flammable, combustible, toxic, reactive, and  
  high-energy materials and processes.  
• Develop and review process safety philosophies, design criteria, specifications, and 
  engineering studies.  
• Evaluate safeguards, independent protection layers, mitigation systems, and risk- 
  reduction measures.  
• Perform or review consequence analyses involving flammable and toxic releases,  
  dispersion, fires, explosions, and other major accident scenarios.  
• Support facility siting, occupied building risk assessments, equipment spacing,  
  hazardous area considerations, and escalation assessments. 
• Participate in Management of Change, Pre-Startup Safety Reviews, incident  
  investigations, and other process safety management activities as required.  
• Review process and engineering documentation, including PFDs, P&IDs, equipment 
  data sheets, plot plans, cause-and-effect diagrams, and control narratives from a process safety perspective.  

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain professional registration.  
• Responsible engineering experience, with substantial experience in process safety, fire protection, loss prevention, or risk  
  engineering.  
• Demonstrated experience supporting industrial process facilities such as oil and  
  gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, hydrogen, power, energy transition, or similar facilities.  
• Strong working knowledge of process safety principles and major accident hazards. 
• Strong working knowledge of industrial fire protection principles and systems.  
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply NFPA, API, OSHA, IFC, IBC, and other applicable engineering requirements.  
• Experience participating in and/or facilitating process hazard analyses and multidisciplinary safety reviews. 
• Ability to independently develop engineering studies, calculations, specifications, reports, and technical recommendations.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.  
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project teams.  

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