Principal Safety Engineer

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

Specific Accountabilities:

• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Identify the safety engineering scope of work from the basis of design.
• Conduct HAZID & HAZOP workshops.
• Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Dropped Object, Hazardous Area.
• Ensure technical integrity of the Safety & Risk discipline’s deliverables through the implementation of checking and design review activities.
• Document key design decisions that may have a significant safety impact.
• Squad checking of deliverables
• Updating lessons learned in the lessons learned register.
• Safety & Risk Studies:
  • Preparation of Safety & Risk Philosophies.
  • Design Requirements for Safety Systems.
  • Active Fire Protection Design (PipeNet).
  • Passive Fire Protection Design.
  • Fire and Gas Design.
  • Hazardous area classification.
  • Escape routes and safety equipment specification.
  • Formal Safety Assessments.
• Identify major Accident Hazard events and apply a formalized approach of hazard management to identify and provide means of mitigation and reduction of hazards.
• Safety-Critical Element & Performance Standards.

Quality Assurance:

• Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.

Safety:

• Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understand and follow OH&S procedures
Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training :

• Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university

• MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period. Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage

Industry Specific Experience:

• Vast experience in safety design in onshore/offshore oil & gas industry in a brownfield environment.

• Performs as a professional Safety & Risk engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front End Development through execution, commissioning and start-up.

• Recent experience in an engineering consultancy in a multidiscipline environment is essential.
  

Key area of expertise:

- Familiar with International Standards (NFPA, EI15, IEC61508, etc)

- Active and Passive Fire Protection systems design

- Hazardous Area Classification

- HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, SIMOPS

- Human Factors Engineering

- Consequence Analysis

- Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessment

- ALARP Demonstration

Moving forward together

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.