Role Summary:
The Process Safety Engineer plays a vital role in shaping safe, competitive, and robust projects. This role is responsible for guiding process safety engineering efforts from the early conceptual stage through execution, ensuring the application of inherently safer design (ISD) principles and compliance with bp's standards. It includes working with engineering contractors, internal project teams, and technical authorities to support delivery of safe and reliable projects globally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support development of the technical scope for safe and competitive project options.
- Lead process safety activities throughout project phases to ensure Inherently Safer Design (ISD).
- Develop Process Safety Philosophy and Design Hazard Management Plans in collaboration with contractors.
- Provide technical guidance on process safety during scope development and decision-making.
- Verify quality and compliance of process safety deliverables from engineering contractors.
- Participate in and support key safety reviews such as HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID, and environmental reviews.
- Collaborate with project teams, technical authorities, and specialists to address risk, integrity, and non-compliance.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant industry codes, standards, and regulations.
- Work with third-party consultants and bp process safety functional teams for assurance and design alignment.
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
Preferred Certification:
- Working towards Chartered Engineer or Registered Professional Engineer (or equivalent).
Experience & Qualifications:
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience in oil & gas, petrochemicals, or refining industry.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in capital project process safety or related engineering work.
- Hands-on experience in Front End Engineering Design (FEED) and detailed design phases.
- Practical knowledge in firewater systems, lifesaving equipment selection, fire and gas detector layout/mapping.
- Experience working with third-party design contractors.
- Familiarity with stage-gated project processes and engineering codes/standards.
- Proven track record of incorporating ISD principles into project design.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Preferred Skills (Can be trained on the job):
- Experience in concept selection stages of projects.
- Experience under different contracting models (lump sum, reimbursable, etc.).
- Familiarity with engineering contractor performance monitoring.
- General understanding of gas processing or refining flow schemes.
- Experience with process safety modelling and quantitative risk assessments.
- Self-driven, pragmatic decision-maker with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
You Will Work With:
- Project Engineering Manager
- Engineering Contractors
- Process & Process Safety Engineering Teams
- Other bp Discipline Engineers
- Commissioning and Start-Up Teams
- Operations & Maintenance Teams
- Quality Teams
