Principal Safety Engineer

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.

Key duties:

• 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.
• Preparation of 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.
• Recommend where any additional Technical Safety reviews are necessary because of scope change, design development, etc.
• Check 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.

Our Engineers can expect to work in a modern environment and enjoy flexible working.

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.

There will be the opportunity to work in other locations, both on and offshore, so candidates may need to travel and hold the relevant certification to do so.

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 of our record in securing repeat client business by delivering consistently excellent solutions. Some of our clients have been working with us for many years and have entrusted us to deliver on projects from the North Sea to North Africa and from the Far East to Eastern Europe.