Senior HSE Design Engineer – Energy Projects, Abu Dhabi

HSE Blog; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood seeks a senior HSE design engineer to integrate health, safety and environmental controls into an Abu Dhabi energy project. The role requires leading safety-in-design activities and ensuring risks are reduced throughout design phases.

The PMC position focuses on coordinating multidisciplinary reviews, conducting hazard analyses such as HAZID/HAZOP/LOPA and reviewing safety deliverables across PFDs, P&IDs and loss-prevention strategies in a major energy development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering or safety discipline.
• Typically 15+ years in HSE design, technical safety or loss prevention on major energy projects.
• Strong knowledge of international codes, ALARP principles and risk modelling.
• Experience with EPC/PMC delivery and ability to mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety-in-design and inherently safer design activities.
• Facilitate HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, QRA, Bow-Tie and fire-risk assessments.
• Review layouts, PFDs, P&IDs, safety philosophies and loss-prevention deliverables.
• Evaluate fire protection, fire and gas, ESD, hazardous-area and evacuation provisions.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary reviews, maintain action registers and support commissioning and handover.

Skills

HSE design

Risk modelling

Report writing

Mentoring

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering/safety

Job description

Wood seeks a senior HSE design engineer to integrate health, safety and environmental controls into an Abu Dhabi energy project. The role requires leading safety-in-design activities and ensuring risks are reduced throughout design phases.

The PMC position focuses on coordinating multidisciplinary reviews, conducting hazard analyses such as HAZID/HAZOP/LOPA and reviewing safety deliverables across PFDs, P&IDs and loss-prevention strategies in a major energy development.