Process Safety Engineer

Woodside Energy are seeking a Process Safety Engineer for a 12-month contract with potential to extend. This will be a Perth based role with ad-hoc trips to site required.

Working as part of the NWS offshore team, the Process Safety Engineer works in a dynamic environment of diverse and changing technical and business requirements to provide support and value-adding advice.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify, assess, and manage hazards with a particular focus on accident events with potential to impact personnel, e.g. multiple fatalities or process safety events.
• Leading and coaching the business in process safety management
• Regulatory management and engagement – lead and coaching
• Facilitation of workshops
• Provide advice, coaching and support on Safety in Design and Process Safety Management aspects to Woodside and Contractor operations/development/project
• Responsible for the definition, planning and coordination of process safety activities within nominated areas of responsibility
• Responsible for the delivery of the safety in design engineering aspects in accordance with agreed scopes of work
• Responsible for the meeting of standards, process and procedures for integrity management
• Responsible to ensure that discipline specific competency is current and skill development plan in place for key gaps
• Responsible for ensuring inherent safety principals are followed by engineers within nominated areas of responsibility, and that risks are ALARP
• Agree with Technical Authority the key technical risks and mitigations plans in place for their management
• Respond to technical queries from service recipients in the required timeframe
• Review contractor safety in design documentation on behalf of Woodside, including point accountability for squad check comment resolution in the required timeframe
• Promote and implement continuous improvement opportunities in line with Woodside health and safety policy, standards, procedures and guidelines
• Contribute to establishing and building internal capability, through development of people and incorporation of lessons learnt.

Skills & Experience:

• Tertiary engineering qualifications
• Excellent communication and influencing skills are essential, in order to influence stakeholders to accept their individual and team accountabilities for process safety management.
• Knowledge and experience of safety cases and major hazards facility framework and the associated risk management processes
• Ability to travel to offshore locations (Fixed assets / Platforms)

 


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