Job Description
Job Title– Senior Process Safety Engineer
Location – West London (Hybrid working)
Type– Permanent Salary - £50k - £70k (experience dependant)
Benefits - Equity from day (shares equal in value to base salary), Funding for professional training and qualifications, Enhanced parental leave at Full Pay, Working abroad policy
Our client:
Our client is a well-backed, London-based Clean-Tech Start-Up, developing innovative solutions for green hydrogen production. Theyre looking to expand their team, including the need for a Senior Process Safety Engineer.
The Opportunity:
Were looking for an experienced Senior Process Safety Engineer to join our clients Product Team. Were not looking for someone thats just been involved in HAZOPs or has limited exposure in process safety alongside their main responsibilities - The right candidate needs to have worked in a dedicated Process Safety role but also have demonstrable hands-on experience in Process Engineering.
What you’ll do:
* Manage the process safety lifecycle of demonstrator test rigs and customer pilots from concept, design through to operations.
* Develop and own safety deliverables (e.g. safety basis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), etc.).
* Work with the technology team to support our lab-scale testing and scale-up, working to minimise hazard and risk.
* Ensure readiness for HAZOP & HAZID with external partners, and lead team workshops for hazard identification and risk management.
* Develop and own engineering deliverables across the design lifecycle (e.g. PFDs, equipment sizing, HMBs, P&IDs, Commissioning plans, SOPs, etc.).
* Deliver process engineering design activities in a timely and cost-effective manner.
* Carry out engineering calculations to support system design (e.g. PSV sizing, Safety Time calculations, ventilation rates, SIL validation, etc.).
* Collaborate with our partners, subcontractors, and vendors to enable our goals of reaching pilot scale by 2026.
* Project manage the implementation of system development work packages under your accountability.
* Champion best practices in safety within the Product team, e.g. implementing Inherently Safer Design (ISD) principles.
* Guide the implementation of zoning hazardous areas for explosive atmospheres (ATEX / DSEAR), control of hazardous substances (COSHH).
About you:
* Have relevant experience within the Hydrogen, Chemical, Nuclear, or related regulated industries.
* Have demonstrable professional experience in a technical safety specific role.
* Have demonstrable professional experience across the project development lifecycle.
* Have experience in employing PHA techniques and Process Safety Management.
* Have knowledge of applicable safety standards in high hazard industries (e.g. ATEX).
* Be experienced in safety monitoring equipment, instrumentation, process control.
* Be committed to inherent safe design and to the minimisation of risk.
Desirable:
* Knowledge of water electrolysis, hydrogen, its applications and its uses.
* Chartered Engineer with a Professional Engineering Institution.
* Have knowledge of hydrogen industry standards.
* Experience of Layers Of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
* Experience of modelling tools & calculations for dispersion & explosion, e.g. PHAST, FLACS.
* Experience of design simulation tools such as Aspen Plus, Hysys or Unisim.
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