Offshore Safety Engineer

ATTB - The Big Jobsite; Norwich; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the oil and gas sector is seeking an experienced Safety Case Engineer to join their License to Operate team in Norwich. The successful candidate will manage offshore and onshore safety case documentation, ensuring compliance with regulations and industry standards. This full-time role involves collaboration with various teams to maintain safety reports and facilitate updates. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including private medical insurance and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus

Private Medical Insurance & Dental Cover

Flexible Benefit Allowance

Life Assurance

Excellent Pension Provision

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Flex Days

Profit ‘Units’ Sharing Scheme

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience with Offshore UKCS Oil and Gas Operators.
• Thorough understanding of Safety Case and COMAH regulations.
• Experience in writing and developing QRA and Safety Cases reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage and submit SC/CSR documentation to regulatory agency.
• Coordinate SC/CSR Material Change submissions.
• Engage with stakeholders to determine materiality of changes.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Education

Higher technical qualification

Job description

This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our expanding licence to operate team. The successful candidate will be responsible, alongside the existing Safety Case Engineer, for the development, maintenance, review, update and submission of Offshore Safety Cases (SC) and Onshore COMAH Safety Reports (CSR) in support of the Perenco Southern North Sea (SNS) Operation.

Perenco SNS are the Duty Holder of two critical infrastructure COMAH Sites and thirty-six offshore assets. Within the License to Operate team, the Safety Case Engineers are influential in the management of the cases for safety for these assets, ensuring SC/CSR documents and the systems that surround them are well maintained.

Working collaboratively across the business, with onshore engineering teams, technical authors, performance standard owners and operations personnel, the Engineer will ensure Safety Cases/COMAH Safety Reports remain in compliance with relevant statutory provisions and are aligned with good industry practice.

This is a full-time office-based role, working Monday to Friday in our Norwich office.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Organise, manage, and submit SC/CSR documentation to the regulatory agency.

• Organise, design, and coordinate all SC/CSR Material Change submissions, gathering inputs from all relevant stakeholders.

• Engage with relevant stakeholders to determine the materiality of changes, understanding their associated risk impacts.

• Work closely with the Lead Safety Engineer (or other nominated person) to ensure hazard management information (including bowties and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) data) remains valid. In particular, keeping abreast of changes in ‘data-sources’ that are used in the QRA for calculating TRIF, PLL, IRPA etc.

• Work with the various Performance Standard Owners and responsible engineers to ensure the content of the SC/CSR remains accurate at all times and these key documents are continuously improved to ensure accurate and relevant content.

• Work with the PUK Operations, Projects and Decommissioning Teams to facilitate updates to existing SC/CSR to address the requirements of planned work.

• Attend the weekly Management of Change (MOC) meeting. Ensure all MOCs that require non-material SC/CSR updates are captured on the change tracker and those that require material change assessment are added to the submission plan.

• Ensure a robust workforce engagement process for all SC/CSR updates, allowing sufficient time to receive and review feedback.

• Ensure independent verification bodies are consulted on SC/CSR updates, allowing sufficient time to review and receive feedback.

• Provide support to others within the QSHE Team to ensure our commitments relating to SCR 2015 regs, COMAH regulations, internal QSHE plans and improvement programs are achieved.

• Liaise with regulatory bodies on matters relating to SC/CSR including general updates, material changes and thorough reviews. Keep abreast of changes in offshore legislation to ensure the business adjusts as required.

• Ownership of the review process and schedule for all Current SC/CSR ensuring compliance with relevant statutory provisions.

• Facilitate and coordinate the 5-yearly SC/CSR Thorough Review Programme, ensuring key stakeholders are engaged at the earliest opportunity.

• Create and maintain a register of all commitments made within the SC/CSR. Ensure these actions are registered in P-Trac, communicated and tracked on a regular basis ensuring delivery against any set deadlines.

• Ensure key supporting documents (i.e., Emergency Response Plans, Lifesaving equipment layout plans, MAPDs) are kept up to date.

• Identify additional ad-hoc resource requirements to manage ‘peaks’ in workload to ensure all relevant statutory deadlines can be achieved.

• Maintain the SEMS document for Safety Case Management.

SEC & Personal Safety Tasks:

• Management of SEMS documentation

• Management of Change

Key Requirements Include:

Qualifications:

• Higher technical qualification, preferably engineering although other disciplines considered

• Chartered engineer desirable but not essential

Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience with Offshore UKCS Oil and Gas Operators, top tier COMAH sites and/or the Competent Authority

• Thorough understanding of the Safety Case and COMAH regulations, including supporting legislation such as PFEER, DSEAR, PSR etc

• Experience in writing and developing QRA and Safety Cases reports.

• Experience in working collaboratively in multi-discipline teams to deliver activities on a range of project types.

• Good knowledge of planning, cost control and document management processes

• Experience working with the Competent Authority desirable

• Experience in a project management desirable

Personal Attributes:

• Adept communicator with the ability to influence decision makers

• Ability to work autonomously as well as under instruction

• Strong team player

• Works efficiently to achieve tight deadlines

• Exceptional organisational skills

• Meticulous attention to detail

Benefits:

At Perenco we value and reward our people, offering competitive salaries and a wide range of benefits including:

• Discretionary Bonus

• Private Medical Insurance & Dental Cover

• Flexible Benefit Allowance

• Life Assurance

• Excellent Pension Provision

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Flex Days

• Profit ‘Units’ Sharing Scheme