Compliance Engineer – Safety & Regulatory Lead (Bacton)

National Gas; Bacton; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Double-match pension

Annual bonus

Tusker car scheme

26 days holiday

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing & development

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

National Gas is seeking a COMAH Compliance Engineer for the Bacton Gas Terminal to maintain safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance on a site-based basis. You will help protect people, assets, and reliability of critical energy infrastructure.

This role supports governance, inspections, and continuous improvement while collaborating with operations, regulators and emergency services.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of safety and environmental legislation and compliance requirements.
• Experience in a high-hazard or safety-critical operational environment.
• Understanding of industrial assets, plant, equipment, or infrastructure operations.
• Experience supporting permit-to-work systems, risk assessments, and safe systems of work.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Able to coach, influence and promote a positive safety culture.
• Engineering qualification (HNC) or significant relevant experience.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance activities across safety, security, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor performance, licences, authorisations, and risk registers to maintain compliance and assurance.
• Support CDM and Temporary Works governance, providing guidance and coaching where needed.
• Plan and deliver assurance visits, identify improvement opportunities, and share good practice across teams.
• Contribute to process safety assessments, risk reviews, and incident investigations to strengthen operational performance.
• Build strong relationships with regulators, emergency services, local authorities, and other key stakeholders.
• Support emergency preparedness, policy development, new asset projects, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Produce and analyse KPI reports to track compliance performance and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Safety compliance

Environmental compliance

High-hazard environment

Industrial assets

Permit-to-work

Risk assessments

Safe systems of work

Stakeholder management

Coaching & influencing

Engineering qualification

Driving licence

Education

HNC in engineering

Job description

National Gas is seeking a COMAH Compliance Engineer for the Bacton Gas Terminal to maintain safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance on a site-based basis. You will help protect people, assets, and reliability of critical energy infrastructure.

This role supports governance, inspections, and continuous improvement while collaborating with operations, regulators and emergency services.