Principal Safety Engineer

Job Description - Principal Safety Engineer (ABU01ZP)

Company: Worley

Primary Location

Job

Safety and Risk

Schedule

Full-time

Employment Type: Employee

Job Level: Experienced

Reporting Manager Title

Manager of Safety & Risk

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:

Business Development Support
• Builds positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors.
• Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers.
• Will be called upon to lead all or part of the technical proposal.

Business Operations
• Planning of man hour budgets, schedules, manpower loadings and staffing requirements, by skill and experience, to satisfy project requirements and direction given by the Discipline Manager.
• Ensures the project work is covered for vacation and unplanned absences.
• Mentors/trains and supports the delivery of training.
• Assists in the employee performance review process.
• Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team.
• Encourages knowledge of and compliance with requirements and processes.
• Works to resolve inter-discipline, vendor, and customer issues.
• Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Design and develop, as required, innovative technical approaches to the broader Safety & Risk engineering issues and contribute to continuous business improvement initiatives.

Technical Competency
• Ensures team member adherence to accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Identifies software necessary to enable Safety & Risk discipline to function effectively.
• Provide specialist technical support, supervision and advice to the discipline project teams; participate in peer reviews;
• Ensures recognised onshore & offshore engineering practices applicable to safety & risk design are adopted within the discipline.
• Technical direction, advice and control of the work.
• Ensuring technical integrity of the Safety & Risk deliverables through the implementation of checking and design review activities.
• Proactively seek an understanding of the safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle of the designed product, plant or structure.
• Hazard identification, risk assessment and quantification.
• HAZOP and HAZID leadership.
• Review of Safety & Risk Studies:
o Safety & Risk Philosophies.
o Design Requirements for Safety Systems.
o Active Fire Protection Design (PipeNet).
o Passive Fire Protection Design.
o Fire and Gas Design.
o Hazardous area classification.
o Escape routes and safety equipment specification.
• Formal Safety Assessments.
o Manage major Accident Hazard events and apply a formalised approach of hazard management to identify and provide means of mitigation and reduction of hazards.
o Safety Critical Element & Performance Standards.
o Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Hazardous Area.
• Lead 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
• Participate in project execution strategy and planning.
• Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Encourages innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
• Collaborates with project team in review of project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets and schedules.
• Leads weekly discipline meetings, reviews progress reports and required checking procedures.
• Initiate, manage and supervise engineering assignments on projects that meet project requirements on time and within budget.
• Organise and manage all aspects of the workload of a team of engineers and designers, within the parameters of a project schedule.
• Understands and applies the Project Execution Plan (PEP) requirements - make-up and application (including the Engineering Plan).
• Preparing discipline man-hours estimates for new proposal and development of deliverables lists.
• To deliver the disciplines design deliverables within the man-hour budget.
• Manage discipline resources together with the Project Engineering Manager.
• Identification of software requirements and selection of appropriate design tools.
• Identifying training needs of discipline personnel.
• Identify and report potential variances to Project (using PVN).
• Updating lessons learnt in the lessons learnt register.
• Facilitation of Safety & Design Reviews and Hazard and Operability Studies.
• Review safety engineering requirements for specific projects.
• Provide advice to Project Engineering personnel & Management on all aspects of risk reduction, mitigation and safety engineering matters.
• Preparation of, and management of, both Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessments, including fault tree and event tree analyses, hazard identification, FMECA techniques, risk ranking.

Project Deliverables
• Reviews data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and recommend actions.
• Crafts recommendations and reviews final documentation prior to customer approval.
• Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/con of multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Establish a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
• Reviews final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval.
• Ensure all engineering work on the projects assigned to him/her is carried out within established budgets and schedules.
• Lead the production of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports.
• Focuses team on achievement of milestones and other key project objectives.
• Progress reporting of discipline deliverables and tasks and updates in progress reports.

Procurement Support
• Participates in bid clarifications, conducts bid evaluations, completes inter-discipline vendor information review and approval, and finalizes other certification activities.
• Provide advice during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.

Job Specific Knowledge:
• Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment.
• Experience in various phases of project life cycle; feasibility/concept studies, FEED, detail engineering, EPIC.
• Expertise 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 principles, 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).

• Degree in Chemical Engineering experience in Oil & Gas Industry engineering industry – onshore / offshore projects in Pre-FEED / FEED stage(s) Independently large-scale projects.
• Good at project management / controls aspect.
• Experience is middle east based projects is essential Mentor / guide young engineers to deliver project specific deliverables / tasks within budget and timeline meeting project specifications / quality aspects Knowledge of / participation in Safety workshops such as PHA / HAZID, HAZOP, SIL & SIMOPS, etc.
• Knowledge of Safety Studies such as QRA, FERA, EERA, ESSA, Flare Radiation & Vent Dispersion, etc.
• Hands on working experience in loss prevention engineering / HSE design.
• HSE and F&G Philosophies.
• Specification & Datasheets for Fire safety equipment.
• Safety Layouts.
• Firewater hydraulics using PIPENET software.

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;
• Motivates and empowers others;
• Provides staff with development opportunities and coaching;
• Able to make difficult decisions and lead and manage others in changing business conditions;
• Provide on the job training to others in the discipline team;
• Is able to assign team members to projects systematically to meet demands, taking into account the varying experience, competence, capability and workload levels of individuals within the group;
• Helps team members feel valued, appreciated and included in discussions and meetings.

Moving forward together

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.