Lead Safety Engineer - Outside IR35

Kent is looking for a Lead Safety Engineer who will be responsible for coordinating the production of engineering deliverables and providing progress reporting for a project in accordance with the project plan. Deliverables:

• Lead safety engineering technical activities across assigned FEED and Detail Design project.
• Prepare the Process Safety TDR and executes allocated tasks within the requirements of the project execution plan and TDR.
• Prepare monthly/weekly progress report
• Ensures compliance with Kent's ISO accredited QMS, and project specific procedures, guides and standards.
• Prepare and provide expert guidance on process safety, fire safety, and risk management to other engineering disciplines
• Being accountable for the quality of Process Safety deliverables
• Review inter-discipline engineering (IDC) documents
• Ensure that design meets all Process Safety requirements and maintains risks to as low as reasonably practicable
• Achieving project completion to the project specifications on schedule
• Facilitating and participating in project HAZID, HAZOP, SIL studies, and other safety workshops as required, along with experience in coordinating HAZOP, HAZID, SIL classification studies, and other HSE workshops.
• Able to prepare and review safety studies reports such as FERA, QRA, ESSA, RAM etc.
• Able to review 3rd party HSE studies such as QRA, FERA, EERA, etc., as required
• Able to do safety studies calculations using PHAST, Flaresim, FRED etc as required
• Experience in fire protection and engineering design, including the review and preparation of Fire Water P&IDs, Fire Water demand calculations, passive fire protection studies and drawings, as well as the preparation of fire and gas detection layouts, safety equipment layouts, and safety signage, among others.
• Ensure compliance with relevant safety regulations, standards, and industry best practices.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of Technical Safety engineering methodologies, software systems, and design practices as they relate to FEED, Detail Design, Construction, Commissioning, and plant Start-up
  
  Typically, holds a Master's Degree in chemical engineering or post-graduate Process Safety qualification.
• Chartered status preferred.
• Experience of working for engineering/client organisations in the oil and gas and new energy industry.
• Experience in Windpower, Hydrogen, waste to energy, CCUS etc
• Exposure to consultancy, FEED / detailed design and EPC projects.
• Knowledge of applicable international and industry specifications, standards and codes.
• Experience of managing Risk Analysis (e.g. QRA, FERA, EERA, ESSA, RAM, Flare/Vent Studies)
• Hand on Experience of running process safety software such as PHAST, Flaresim, RAM Maros etc
• Human Factors engineering design implementation experience.
• Experience of UK safety case and COMAH requirements
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