Senior Process Safety Engineer

Job Title – Senior Process Safety Engineer

Location – West London (Hybrid working)

Type – Permanent Salary - £50k - £70k (experience dependant) + tax-efficient share scheme

Our client:

Our client is a well-backed, London-based Clean-Tech Start-Up, developing innovative solutions for green hydrogen production. They have just gone through a significant funding round and are looking to expand their team, including the need for a Senior Process Safety Engineer.

Our client is proud to foster an inclusive environment. They believe diversity drives innovation and they ensure that every team member feels welcomed, valued, and empowered to succeed - As such they encourage applicants of all genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply and help shape the future of clean energy.

The Opportunity:

Our client is looking for an experienced process engineering professional with technical safety competence to join their Product team as a Senior Process Safety Engineer. They need someone to help them shape their system design to meet their target KPIs on safety, performance, efficiency and cost.

You will join an exciting and fast moving company that is intent on disrupting the energy industry and enabling a net zero future.

What you’ll do:

• Manage the process safety lifecycle of demonstrator test rigs and customer pilots from concept, design through to operations.
  
  
• Develop and own safety deliverables (e.g. safety basis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), etc.).
  
  
• Work with the technology team, to support our lab-scale testing and scale-up, working to minimise hazard and risk.
  
  
• Ensure readiness for HAZOP & HAZID with external partners, and leading team workshops for hazard identification and risk management,
  
  
• Develop and own engineering deliverables across the design lifecycle (e.g. PFDs, equipment sizing, HMBs, P&IDs, Commissioning plans, SOPs, etc.).
  
  
• Deliver process engineering design activities in a timely and cost-effective manner.
  
  
• Carry out engineering calculations to support system design (e.g. PSV sizing, Safety Time calculations, ventilation rates, SIL validation, etc.).
  
  
• Collaborate with our partners, subcontractors and vendors to enable our goals of reaching pilot scale by 2026.
  
  
• Project manage the implementation of system development work packages under your accountability.
  
  
• Champion best practices in safety within the Product team, e.g. implementing Inherently Safer Design (ISD) principles.
  
  
• Guide the implementation of zoning hazardous areas for explosive atmospheres (ATEX / DSEAR), control of hazardous substances (COSHH).
  
  About you
  
  Ideally, you’re passionate about clean energy and eager to bring innovative ideas to life in a collaborative and inclusive environment. You will:
  
  
• Be a self-starter and proactively identify problems and pursue solutions.
  
  
• Have a masters degree or above in Chemical / Process Engineering.
  
  
• Have relevant experience within the Hydrogen, Chemical, Nuclear, or related regulated industries.
  
  
• Have demonstrable professional experience in a technical safety specific role
  
  
• Have demonstrable professional experience across the project development lifecycle.
  
  
• Have experience of working with high pressure/high temperature systems and flammable gases.
  
  
• Be adept in process engineering design from first principles.
  
  
• Have experience in employing PHA techniques and Process Safety Management,
  
  
• Have knowledge of applicable safety standards in high hazard industries (e.g. ATEX)
  
  
• Be experienced in safety monitoring equipment, instrumentation, process control,
  
  
• Have strong communication and organisational skills, attention to detail and enjoy working in a team environment.
  
  
• Be committed to inherent safe design and to the minimisation of risk.
  
  Desirable
  
  
• Knowledge of water electrolysis, hydrogen, its applications and its uses.
  
  
• Chartered Engineer with a Professional Engineering Institution.
  
  
• Have knowledge of hydrogen industry standards.
  
  
• Experience of Layers Of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
  
  
• Experience of modelling tools & calculations for dispersion & explosion, e.g. PHAST, FLACS.
  
  
• Experience of design simulation tools such as Aspen Plus, Hysys or Unisim