Senior Safety Engineer
Building on our past. Ready for the future
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures team member adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
- Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
- Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
- Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
- Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
- Technical writing activities, in particular, production of technical reports and operating manuals
- Identify the safety engineering scope of work from basis of design.
- Conduct HAZID & HAZOP workshops.
- Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Dropped Object, Hazardous Area
- .Ensure technical integrity of the Safety & Risk discipline’s deliverables through the implementation of checking and design review activities.
- Document key design decisions that may have a significant safety impact.
- Squad checking of deliverables
- Updating lessons learnt in the lessons learnt register.
- Safety & Risk Studies:
- Preparation of Safety & Risk Philosophies.
- Design Requirements for Safety Systems.
- Active Fire Protection Design (PipeNet).
- Passive Fire Protection Design.
- Fire and Gas Design.
- Hazardous area classification
- Escape routes and safety equipment specification.
- Formal Safety Assessments.
- Identify major Accident Hazard events and apply a formalised approach of hazard management to identify and provide means of mitigation and reduction of hazards.
- Safety Critical Element & Performance Standards.
- Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Hazardous Area.
- Undertake Fire and Explosion Studies and other Risk based studies consistent with Safety Case application. This includes Non Flammable Analysis Studies, Smoke Dispersion modeling, Escape and Rescue Modeling and Emergency System Vulnerability Assessments.
Project Execution:
- Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
- Implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
- Supports Lead Engineer in monitoring quality activities and takes action where required.
- Manage safety design and any design changes within budget and schedule.
- Prepare and participate in weekly discipline meetings, prepare progress reports and follow required checking procedures.
- Review and approve all related technical documents and coordinate with the Lead Engineer.
- Management, technical execution and completion of engineering assigned tasks in the specific safety discipline area
- Execute verification, studies and detail design following best engineering practices and optimization in term of cost, construction simplicity, operability and maintainability, HSSE.
- CTR Management & progress reporting, Estimation of work scopes & CTR
- Proactively seek an understanding of the safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle of the designed product, plant or structure.
- Support discipline man-hours estimates for new proposal and development of deliverables lists
- To deliver the disciplines design deliverables within the man-hour budget.
- Prepare Equipment specification (i.e. Fire-fighting, Life saving)
- Complete Risk Assessments for clients using Excel spreadsheets or visual basic programs (SMORM & HARRI) developed by Worley Safety & Risk Management.
- Develop Event Tree & Fault Tree as appropriate to meet client requirements.
- Provide recommendations to assist client management with regard to safety and risk issues.
Project Deliverables:
- Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations.
- Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
- Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval.
- Reviews documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports.
- Evaluate new technology advancements against existing design standards and revise where applicable.
- Identify and review new technology development which could be applicable in providing more cost-effective facilities.
- Perform discipline specific engineering services such as:
- Identify and report changes to project scope;
- Contribute to appropriate studies, analyses and recommend actions;
- Assist with the preparation of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports;
- Provide assistance during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.
- Raise a suite of project deliverables including procedures, design basis and HES Plan & Schedules of Activities
Procurement Support:
- Incorporates information from multiple sources into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions.
- Reviews similar documentation to assist others and reviews/authorizes work done by direct reports
Site Support:
- Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering/design.
- Create plans or documents that supports construction, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, or decommissioning.
Quality Assurance:
- Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.
Safety:
- Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understand and follow OH&S procedures
- Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.
Knowledge/Experience/Competencies Required
Job Specific Knowledge:
- Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment
- Highly effective technical and practical engineering skills in the Safety & Risk discipline, and able to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work to Worley and its clients.
- Specialized expertise of the fundamental requirements of the Safety & Risk discipline, and the basic requirements of other disciplines.
- Specialized expertise of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements.
- In-depth knowledge of safety design/engineering with wide experience in multi-discipline areas
- Excellent report writing skills.
- Extensive working knowledge in: Hazard and Risk Management, Concept Option Selection, Inherent Safety Review, Fire & Explosion Analysis, Fire Protection related studies, Formal Safety Assessments, Safety Critical Element & Performance Standards, QRA, Safety Case, Reliability Studies (including FMEA and RAM), SIL Assessments, Active Fire Protection Design, Passive Fire Protection Design.
- Experience in facilitation HAZOP and HAZID workshops
- Experience with Reliability/Availability Studies for offshore/onshore Petrochemical Industries
- Exposure to Safety Management principals, application and relevance in Risk Assessments
- Experience with completion of Safety Cases for offshore or onshore facilities
- Expert level knowledge in - Safety & Risk Engineering (Active and Passive Fire protection system design, Fire and Gas detection system design, Hazardous area classification), Safety and Risk Studies (QRA and FERA)
Essential Competencies:
- Deciding and Initiating Action:
- Initiates and introduces changes into work processes;
- Makes quick, clear decisions that may include tough choices or considered risks;
- Recognizes the need for improved systems/processes and proactively recommends, develops and implements them.
- Proactively resolve any discrepancies between Worley and its client’s requirements.
- Leading and Supervising:
- Provides team members with a clear direction;
- Sets appropriate standards of behaviour.
- Applying Expertise & Technology:
- Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise;
- Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development;
- Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions;
- Specialized expertise in regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices;
- Keep up-to-date with the latest developments and technical innovations in the discipline;
- Implements innovative solutions, and methods in self and team’s work.
- Analysing:
- Is able to analyse engineering/design problems methodically and arrive at satisfactory solutions;
- Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem;
- Makes rational judgements from the available information and analysis;
- Demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.
- Proficient in specialty engineering, analytics and modelling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations:
- Takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and solving customer problems/ issues;
- Sets high standards for quality and quantity and monitors and maintains quality and productivity;
- Excellent customer focus and able to consistently meet Worley and its clients needs.
- Ensures design team aware of and complying with client’s Basis of Design and applicable regulations and codes.
- Pro-active, goal oriented with excellent attention to detail.
Desirable Competencies:
- Adhering to Principles and Values:
- Upholds ethics and Worley values;
- Demonstrates integrity as a person who is trusted by others and consistently honours their commitments;
- Promotes and defends equal opportunities.
- Writing and Reporting:
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to convey information and ideas to individuals and groups, and make presentations when required.
- Writes clearly, succinctly and correctly
- Writes in a well-structured and logical way;
- Structures information to meet the needs and understanding of the intended audience
- Creating and Innovating:
- Produces new ideas, approaches, or insights;
- Creates innovative products or designs;
- Produces a range of solutions to problems.
- Planning and Organising:
- Sets clearly defined objectives;
- Plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances;
- Identifies and organises resources needed to accomplish tasks;
- Manages time effectively;
- Monitors performance against deadlines and milestones;
- Prioritises what needs to be done and has a sense of urgency about achieving outcomes;
- Following Instructions and Procedures:
- Competent user of workflow procedure for delivering process design deliverables.
- Familiar with Worley Standards & Codes of relevance to Brownfields Engineering Design;
- Demonstrates commitment to the organisation;
- Complies with legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
- Adapting and Responding to Change:
- Approaches change positively and drives change to improve systems;
- Accepts new ideas and change initiatives;
- Adapts interpersonal style to suit different people or situations.
- Effectively manages change to work tasks and the work environment and assists others with adapting to change.
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks:
- Maintains a positive outlook at work;
- Works productively in a pressurised environment;
- Keeps emotions under control during difficult situations;
- Handles criticism well and learns from it.
- Identify issues and problems; make timely decisions, develop appropriate and innovative solutions;
- Balances the demands of a work life and a personal life.
- Extent of Guidance or Control:
- Should be able to work largely independently with minimal supervision from Lead
- Works with self-initiated interaction with supervisor and self-initiated technical guidance
- Impact of Decisions on Results:
- Empowered to make responsible decisions.
- Difficult, complex or unusual decisions are usually referred to more senior discipline members
- Position Significance Relative to Total Organisation.
General Accountabilities:
- Deliver quality services and demonstrate a commitment to understand and meet customer needs.
- Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to achieving the Worley Vision and its associated requirements.
- Act in the best interests of Worley at all times.
- Perform any other duties that are reasonably required from time to time.
- Works independently at an advanced level completing a wide variety of assignments through the application of advanced engineering theories, techniques, and practices.
- Has substantial knowledge of relevant regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices for the control, development, and application of deliverables.
- Provides discipline supervision for one larger or one or more smaller projects.
- Arrives punctually for work and meetings.
- Demonstrates commitment to the organisation.
- Complies with legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritisation of work to achieve them.
Qualifications:
Industry Specific Experience:
- Relevant years of safety design in onshore/offshore oil & gas industry in a brownfield environment. • Performs as a professional Safety & Risk engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front End Development through execution, commissioning and start-up.
- Recent experience in an engineering consultancy in a multidiscipline environment is essential.
Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training
- Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university
- MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period.
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage
HSE Capability:
- Maintain HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements.
- Demonstrate behaviour and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance.
- Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to:
- personal well-being;
- healthy and safe workplaces and activities; and
- Continuously improve Worley health, safety and environmental performance.
- Identify and report work hazards and incidents.
IT Skills:
- Pipenet, PHAST, SAFETI, PHA Pro, Flaresim, Detect3D (optional), exSILentia (optional)
People Skills:
- Able to work in diverse team.
- Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization.
- Communicates (in English) clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters.
- Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
Other:
- Good English communication skills (spoken & written)
- Demonstrates initiative and a willingness to learn and continuously improve on performance.
- Able to work on multiple projects of various size and complexity.
- Able to work effectively in small to large multi-disciplinary teams and share and transfer knowledge within teams.
Moving forward together
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