Lead Technical Safety Engineer

Oil, Gas and Renewables; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Technical Safety Engineer, where your expertise will drive the energy transition. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to innovative projects across the oil, gas, and renewables sectors. You will be responsible for ensuring safety compliance, mentoring the next generation of engineers, and leading technical safety studies. With a commitment to professional development and a varied workload, you will thrive in an environment that values your contributions. If you are ready to make a difference and embrace a challenge, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Private Medical Cover

Private Dental Cover

33 days holiday

Holiday Buy

Flexible Working

Employee Assist Programme

CashPlan

Qualifications

• Experience in Safety Engineering, particularly in offshore energy projects.
• Proven ability in engineering design and project management.

Responsibilities

• Generate and approve safety deliverables and reports.
• Provide technical safety and risk management support.
• Mentor junior engineers and support business development.

Skills

Safety Engineering

Risk Management

Engineering Design

Project Management

Mentoring

Incident Investigation

Regulatory Compliance

Technical Safety Studies

Education

BSc in Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

PHAST

Autodesk Design products

MS Office

Job description

About The Role

Do you enjoy a challenge? Do you want to make a difference? Are you ready to engineer change within the industry and wider community?

At PD&MS, we’re determined to help drive the change that our world needs to see. To support current and new customers to be part of the energy transition, through future-friendly solutions.

You can be part of our vision!

Working Pattern: Permanent / Full Time

As the Lead Technical Safety Engineer, you will:

• Generate, check, and approve of Deliverables, Safety Screening, Terms of Reference, Safety close-out reports, Action Tracking, and close-out
• Supervise project management of activities undertaken by 3rd party Consultants (e.g. Phast Modelling, CFD) Advantageous
• Have experience in writing and checking system Scopes of work for 3rd party specialist vendors
• Provide technical safety and risk management support & advice to operational and project personnel
• Support incident investigations for process safety related events
• Have proven capability in an engineering design company / EPCC support role experience
• Be technically competent in own discipline and actively maintain own competence according to standards and pursue continuous professional development
• Provide value adding knowledge to constructability reviews and take consideration of layout restrictions, ergonomics, safety, utilities, and maintainability
• Check and approve of and generate calculations against design code and best practice
• Have experience in mentoring junior and graduate engineers
• Have good experience in supporting business development for new bids (Understanding scope, preparing deliverables and process activities and CTR preparation and process narratives)
• Have excellent experience in Managing Team delivery, assigning work, monitoring progress, inputting weekly timely progress to planning tools and attending planning and resource meetings to ensure team resource and delivery progress aspects are maintained

The role offers:

• Development opportunities: the opportunity to develop within your technical department, to be appreciated, to work with people who have the same goals and are driven to succeed
• Varied workload: you’ll have the chance to transfer your skills and develop in our industry and deliver on projects across the fully energy sector, from conventional to renewable energies
• Opportunities for transferable skills: if you’re experience isn’t traditional oil & gas, we still want to hear from you! If you’ve EPC experience in nuclear, rail, utilities, Petro-chemical, renewables, marine and pharmaceuticals then please apply.

Salary: Competitive Salary depending on knowledge and experience plus a range of benefits that support your finances, wellbeing, and family.

Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection, Private Medical Cover, Private Dental Cover, 33 days holiday, Holiday Buy, Flexible Working and Employee Assist Programme and CashPlan.

Location: Glasgow – hybrid working 3 days in the office with flexibility to work from home for 2 days.

About You

You’ll have experience of:

• Safety Engineering / Safety and Reliability experience (including in offshore Energy Sector) in delivery of Engineering projects.
• Production of Safety Engineering studies to support a holistic case for safety at plant/site/installation.
• Participating in Safety workshops (HAZOP/HAZID/LOPA/etc). Experience of facilitation of various Safety Reviews desirable.
• Excellent experience in the following:

- Hazardous Area designation/classification/ Major Accident Hazard / Hazard identification / Safety critical systems/elements in design and operation / Inherent Safety of area/plant/occupancy design / knowledge of Human Factors / QRA, FRA, FMEA, SIL, LOPA processes of assessment / Safety Case / Control of Major Accidents reporting/documentation

• UK Safety Case Regulations 2015 for offshore installations
• Safety Systems on Offshore/ Onshore Assets (e.g., Emergency Firefighting systems, Lifeboats & Life rafts, Fire & Gas, ESD, Essential Services & Generators Helideck, Evacuation & Escape)
• Demonstrating ALARP for projects throughout lifecycle and challenge decisions where necessary.
• Hazardous area drawings and assessments.
• Fire and Gas detection Systems requirements for brownfield and greenfield projects
• Dropped objects studies assessment requirements
• Excellent experience in performing technical safety studies for technical evaluation of safety solutions.
• Producing deliverables that conform to all applicable industry engineering codes and standards as well as the client’s policies and procedures relative to the equipment being specified. Sound knowledge of relevant commonly used codes therefore required.
• FERA and EERA requirements and assessment
• Dispersion modelling, Blast overpressure, radiation studies and assessments
• Simulation Software such as PHAST highly advantageous

Qualifications

• BSc or equivalent in relevant Engineering Discipline
• Chartered Engineer status preferred
• Significant, demonstrable experience in Detailed Design Engineering and Engineering Checking/Approval
• Detailed understanding of all Engineering disciplines
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of relevant Oil & Gas Industry Codes and Standards
• Understand the application of Autodesk Design products
• Competent in the use of MS Office applications

About Us

PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables, and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

Be who you’re meant to be, with PD&MS

We firmly believe in a work culture in which: individual differences are a source of collective strength and pride; everybody can perform to the best of their abilities and on a level playing field; and all colleagues feel they’re part of our team and their voices will be heard. We’re already heartened by the diversity within our organisation, but we recognise that there’s always more we can do to improve further. We welcome applications from all persons regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, or disability status.

We’re energised by the prospect of operating successfully today, tomorrow, and far into the future. But we’re also driven to ensure that our business activities are conducted in socially responsible, morally acceptable, and sustainable ways.