Technical Safety Engineer
CR/079334
Posted: 01/10/2025
- Competitive
- France, Ile De France, Paris
- Contract
Job Title: Technical Safety Engineer – Upstream
Location: Paris, France (with periodic travel to project sites)
Division: Upstream HSE
Reporting To: Upstream HSE Manager
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Safety Engineer to oversee and coordinate all upstream technical safety engineering activities for a major LNG project. The role is responsible for ensuring that safety engineering principles are embedded across all upstream packages, supporting design, construction, commissioning, and start-up phases, and maintaining alignment with international safety standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Proven leadership in technical safety, strong analytical and communication skills, ability to work across multiple locations, and commitment to delivering high-quality, safe, and compliant project outcomes.
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.
Location: Paris, France (with periodic travel to project sites)
Division: Upstream HSE
Reporting To: Upstream HSE Manager
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Safety Engineer to oversee and coordinate all upstream technical safety engineering activities for a major LNG project. The role is responsible for ensuring that safety engineering principles are embedded across all upstream packages, supporting design, construction, commissioning, and start-up phases, and maintaining alignment with international safety standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Represent the Technical Safety discipline in the project organization and provide leadership on all upstream safety matters.
- Lead hazard studies including HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, and QRA, and maintain Critical Event Registers, Major Risk Registers, and TRA Assumptions Registers.
- Ensure completion and quality of Detailed Risk Analyses and ALARP demonstrations.
- Track closure of all PHA/HAZOP actions and ensure procedural compliance prior to commissioning.
- Develop and maintain Safety and Environmental Critical Elements (SECEs) and performance standards in line with project requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering, commissioning, operations, and contractor teams to integrate risk mitigation into design and execution.
- Support interface reviews to avoid duplication or gaps in technical safety responsibilities.
- Provide technical input to ICSS integration, OTPs, SIMOPS, and commissioning documentation.
- Deliver regular safety status reports and lessons learned throughout project execution.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Safety, Chemical, or Process Engineering.
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in upstream oil and gas project safety engineering.
- Strong knowledge of international safety standards and upstream project safety processes.
- Proven ability to lead safety assessments and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams.
- Fluent English; professional representation of safety matters in complex environments.
- Valid BOSIET and OGUK Offshore Medical certifications.
Proven leadership in technical safety, strong analytical and communication skills, ability to work across multiple locations, and commitment to delivering high-quality, safe, and compliant project outcomes.
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.
Stevie Denoon
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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