Senior Safety and Loss Prevention Engineer (S)

SBM Offshore; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

SBM Offshore seeks a Senior Safety & Loss Prevention Engineer to safeguard FPSO and turret designs by identifying major hazards and driving safe, compliant solutions. You will lead SLP activities across FEED, EPCI, and brownfield phases, coordinating risk reviews, safety plans, and third-party studies while mentoring teams in safety-by-design practices.

Requires 5–10 years in offshore SLP engineering, with strong communication across multidisciplinary groups and proficiency in HAZID/HAZOP/SIL,

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in Safety & Loss Prevention for offshore projects (FPSO/FLNG).
• Experience with safety methods and software: HAZID/HAZOP/SIL, risk assessment tools.
• Strong communication in multidisciplinary, multicultural environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead SLP scope on FPSO projects across FEED, EPCI, brownfield phases.
• Plan and run risk reviews and safety workshops (HAZID/HAZOP/SIL).
• Define safety concepts, plans, and hazard classifications.
• Engineer fire protection and integrate safety into overall design.
• Manage third‑party safety studies and ensure closure of actions.
• Provide functional safety input and support change control.
• Interface with clients, class societies, yards and vendors on safety topics.
• Mentor colleagues to improve safety-by-design practices.

Skills

Safety & Loss Prevention Engineering

HAZID

HAZOP

SIL

CFD tools

Risk assessment translation to design

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Client interface

Process safety methods

Education

Engineering degree (BSc/MSc)

Tools

PHAST

Flaresim

Pipenet

Vessfire

BowTie

CFD tools

Job description

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us

SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long‑term, asset‑backed business model that delivers high‑availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower‑carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

• As Senior Safety & Loss Prevention Engineer, you safeguard SBM FPSO and Turret designs by ensuring major hazard risks are identified, assessed, and controlled throughout the project lifecycle, from concept to commissioning and operations support. The role provides technical leadership on safety-in-design, translating regulatory, class and client requirements into practical design solutions and ensuring timely closure of safety actions to deliver safe, compliant and operable facilities.

Responsibilities

• You lead and/or coordinate the Safety & Loss Prevention (SLP) scope on FPSO projects during FEED, EPCI and brownfield phases, ensuring inherently safer design principles are consistently applied.
• You plan, facilitate and close out risk reviews and safety workshops such as HAZID, HAZOP and SIL, including action tracking and verification of timely closure.
• You define, prepare and review key SLP documentation such as safety concepts, safety plans, fire control plans, hazardous area classification deliverables and safety layouts.
• You specify, engineer and verify fire and explosion risk control measures, including active and passive fire protection systems and their integration into the overall design.
• You manage and technically challenge third‑party safety studies (e.g. Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment and QRA), controlling scope, schedule, quality and integration of outcomes into project decisions.
• You provide functional safety input where required, ensuring safety requirements are properly captured, implemented and monitored through change control.
• You interface with clients, class societies, yards and vendors on safety-related topics and support site activities such as 3D model reviews, redlining, as-built verification and resolution of safety punch items.
• You apply recognized SLP and process safety tools and mentor colleagues to continuously improve safety performance and engineering quality across projects.

Education

• Engineering degree at BSc or MSc level (e.g. Chemical, Mechanical, Process or Safety Engineering) or equivalent technical qualification.

Experience

• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in Safety & Loss Prevention engineering, preferably within offshore oil and gas projects (FPSO, FLNG or similar facilities), across FEED and EPCI phases.
• Practical experience with safety loss prevention and process safety methods and software such as HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, PHAST, Flaresim, Pipenet, Vessfire, BowTie, CFD tools or equivalent.
• Strong team spirit with clear, structured communication skills in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.
• Ability to interface effectively with clients, class societies, shipyards, vendors and third‑party consultants.
• Autonomous and pragmatic, with a constructive mindset and sound engineering judgement.
• Strong analytical skills, capable of translating risk assessments into practical design solutions.
• Proactive, curious and motivated to improve safety‑by‑design practices and share knowledge within the team.

Functional Competencies

• Engineering design and calculation tools
• Concept development
• Detailed design
• Systems Engineering
• Package engineering and manufacturing
• Sub‑contracting
• Site engineering
• Analysis
• Planning

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affidav??.