Principal Technical Safety Engineer at WorleyParsons

Primary Objective

• To provide risk safety and loss prevention services to the various Worley clients.
• Clients can be internal Worley business units or external clients.
• To be responsible to the performance of projects assigned to both in terms of technical capability and commercial performance of the project.
• To promote Worley Safety & Risk Management to clients to achieve follow-on work with existing clients and new work with prospective clients.

Specific Accountabilities

• Hazard and Risk Management.
• To identify the safety engineering scope of work from basis of design.
• To be able to determine and estimate norms to conduct the scope of work.
• To be able to raise a suite of project deliverables including procedures, design basis and execution plan & schedules of activities.  
• Network and inter-discipline departments. Interface management with the client.
• Conduct HAZID workshops.
• Lead HAZOP workshops.
• Safety Review.
• Fire & Explosion Analysis.
• Loss Prevention related studies.
• Formal Safety Assessments.
• Safety Critical Element & Performance Standards.
• QRA.
• Safety Case.
• Reliability Studies, including FMEA and RAM.
• SIL Assessments.

Design Requirements for Safety Systems:

• Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Dropped Object, Hazardous Area.
• Active Fire Protection Design (or knowledge of).
• Passive Fire Protection Design (or knowledge of).
• Ability to identify and raise suite of project procedures & deliverables.
• CTR Management & progress reporting, Estimation of work scopes & CTR.
• To Determine the Major Accident Hazard events and to apply a formalised approach of hazard management to identify and provide means of mitigation and reduction of such hazards.   
• To take ownership of and provide direction to engineers through ability to prepare and author full suite of project safety deliverables.
• Manage a team of professional and technical people.
• Act as mentor to graduates, technicians and technical specialists.
• Liaise with the local community and other stakeholders on all consulting matters.
• Quality Assurance – Responsible for implementing the EMS V3.
• Safety – Responsible for personal safety safe working practices for the BU, etc. Understand and follow OH&S procedures.
• One Way – demonstrate a commitment to the ONE WAY.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Engineering-related B.Sc.
• 15 Years Minimum.

Main Purpose of Role

• To execute project work, either individually or as part of a team, covering a number of different areas of expertise within own discipline, provide technical leadership/guidance to others within the business and provide direct input to the commercial activities of the business.
• Be able to deliver small consultancy projects from prospect to completion or head small to medium sized engineering design assignment.  

Key Result Areas

• Meet the requirements in terms of monitoring, reporting progress and successfully completing a task to the agreed budget and programme and to the right quality.  
• Technically supervise staff, as directed by the Team Leader, to ensure that they in turn complete their task to the agreed budget and programme and to the right quality.  
• Maximise profitability of own work and that being supervised by ensuring that it is carried out efficiently and effectively and that it is right first time.
• Identifies, assesses and mitigates risks associated with own work and that being supervised, and reports to Team Leader, as necessary.
• Ensures that own work and that being supervised in being carried out in accordance with the company EMS.
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with clients, as appropriate, to ensure that their needs are met.  
• Provides a direct input to the business development and commercial activities of the business for work generally within own area of expertise.

Problem Solving:

• Day to day problem solving is around technical issues
• Identifies and resolves technical problems encountered when executing own tasks and those being supervised, and knows when to consult with the Engineering groups.
• Assists the Engineering group in recommending pragmatic and innovative solution to client problems.

Planning, Organising and Control:

• Is able to breakdown tasks to subtasks and develop a budget and programme for these subtasks.
• Plans own tasks/sub tasks and those under their supervision on a day to day basis.
• Continuously monitors progress against the plan and take appropriate actions to deal with any problems, cost overruns and delays, reporting as necessary.
• Needs to maintain an overview of won work and that being supervised in order to identify, assess risks and mitigate risks.
• Reports changes to the agreed scope of work to the Project Manager/Team Leader for a variation to be raised.
• Ensures that the corporate Enterprise Management Systems (EMS) and relevant procedures have been applied to own work or that being supervised.

Communicating and Influencing:

• Ensures that Team Leader/Lead Engineer (where appropriate) is fully informed with respect to technical programme and cost issues.
• Effectively communicates progress and discusses technical requirements or queries with Team Leader/Lead Engineer.
• Maintains a constant dialogue with the client, if appropriate, to get feedback on performance, to understand issues and clarify requirements and to spot further business opportunities.
• Communicate effectively (written or verbal) with staff under day-to-day supervision.