Principal Technical Professional - Engineering Safety

NES GLOBAL PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent engineering company in Singapore seeks an experienced HSE Engineer with over 12 years in the Oil and Gas industry. You'll lead safety design for projects, manage teams, and ensure compliance with safety codes and standards. Key responsibilities include conducting design safety reviews, overseeing HAZOP processes, and providing health and environmental inputs to projects. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential, alongside degrees in Chemical Engineering and experience in offshore environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of HSE engineering experience in Oil and Gas industry.
• Experience in offshore and onshore design projects.
• Hands-on experience with HAZID and HAZOP.

Responsibilities

• Carry out design safety philosophy and specifications for fire protection systems.
• Participate in process hazard reviews and ensure close-out actions.
• Manage team engineers and guide project safety deliverables.

Skills

Design safety philosophy

HSE engineering

Project safety deliverables

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

PIPENET Vision

Flaresim

DNV PHAST

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Carry out design safety philosophy, HSE plan, and specifications for fire protection systems (active and passive), HFE, etc.
• Participate in process hazard reviews and analysis, including HAZOP/HAZID/SIL studies, and be responsible for actions close‑out.
• Responsible for reviewing third party safety studies, including FERA, dispersion analysis, EERA, ESSA, dropped objects study, QRA studies, etc. (not limited to).
• Carry out similar safety studies independently, if required.
• Carry out independent design of active and passive fire protection systems and prepare Hazardous/H2S Area Classification documentation, safety and fire fighting layouts, escape route and life‑saving equipment layouts, and other safety drawings.
• Carry out safety critical elements performance standards, RAM, fire and gas detection mapping, etc., based on project requirements.
• Act as Package Engineer for safety and fire fighting, life‑saving equipment.
• Manage and guide team Engineers and Designers.
• Provide health and environmental inputs (including health risk assessments such as chemical exposure, noise and lighting, ergonomics/Human Factors Engineering, environmental impact assessments, etc.) to projects.
• Interface/coordinate with other Engineering disciplines and clients, and take the lead in resolving technical matters related to safety aspects.
• Able to deliver project safety deliverables as per project schedule.
• Provide inputs and support to projects in all safety aspects, including progress reports.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 12 years of HSE engineering experience in the Oil and Gas industry, in process safety/technical safety, and preferably worked 1-3 years in a Lead position on similar projects.
• Involved in design projects for offshore (FPSO/Platforms) and onshore (Refineries, LNG facilities, Storage terminals, etc.).
• Must have worked on at least 3 offshore projects (FPSO/Platforms).
• Strong capability in FEED, Pre‑FEED, Detailed Design Engineering and operations technical safety working with EPCs preferred.
• Possess good knowledge of Oil and Gas process facilities, local and international process safety codes and standards (e.g., NFPA, EI15, etc.) and regulatory/marine codes and standards (MODU, SOLAS, DNV/ABS/Lloyds Register).
• Should have hands‑on experience in plot plan review, HAZID, HAZOP, SIL classification/verification, and other safety reviews (e.g., SIMOPS, ALARP).
• Good working knowledge of PIPENET Vision, Flaresim, and other consequence modeling software such as DNV PHAST, etc., is needed.
• Ability to influence designs to achieve optimal HSE outcomes.
• A team player with leadership potential and proactive inter‑discipline communication skills.