Senior Safety Engineer at SPIE Oil & Gas Services

Job Description

• We are looking for profiles to fill the position of Senior Safety Engineer. 

Responsibilities
The incumbent is required to:

Ensure compliance to applicable local / international regulations and Company referential:

• Make input on Safety Engineering documents for facilities design, operation and abandonment, in conformity with Company, Industry and Statutory requirements.
• Provide Safety Engineering support on studies conducted internally and follow up Safety Engineering studies undertaken
• by Contractors during Basic/Detailed Engineering as assigned by hierarchy.

Provide support to operated facilities:

• Undertake periodic update of facility Safety Concept.
• Review and make necessary inputs to all safety-related modifications and corresponding engineering documents to
• existing facilities (P&ID, ESD Logic, Fire and Gas Cause and Effects Matrix, Active and Passive fire protection, Fire
• and Gas detection, Escape and Evacuation route, Hazardous Area Classification, Safety Layout, Flare Radiation)
• Undertake the development, review and update of Operational Safety Case in line with regulatory (NUPRC) requirement
• for operated sites in Nigeria.

Risk Assessment:

• Lead specific Safety Engineering studies / reviews in support of Request for Modification (RFM) process and Downgraded
• Situations (DGS) – HAZOP, HAZID, BowTie Assessment etc.
• Support operational entities in Derogation preparation.
• Undertake flammable/toxic gas dispersion, fire and explosion consequence modeling using PHAST software, and
• interpret result for safe operation of oil and gas facilities.
• Undertake Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) assessment process and SIL assignment for Safety Instrumented Systems
• within oil and gas facilities.

Major Risk Management:

• Facilitate Safety and Environmental Critical Element (SECE) identification workshops and the follow up of Safety
• Engineering responsibilities as specified in GS GR HSE 311.
• Lead in major risk identification, develop risk reduction measures for managing technological risks, and monitor
• implementation in compliance with the group benchmark (GS GR HSE 312) for technological risk assessment (TRA).
• Lead Major Risk awareness training and barrier verification exercises.
• Promote Major Risk awareness within COMPANY via development of Process Safety Event articles for dissemination to operated asset.
• Support Major Risk management implementation through development of dashboard for monitoring barrier status.
• Provide process safety support to Engineering Construction & Projects (ECP), Operational / Asset Operated by Others (AOBO) entities and partners on risk management issues.

Requirements

• B.Sc Degree or equivalent in Chemical, Petroleum or related Engineering (an M.Sc. Degree in Safety Engineering or similar is a plus.
• Typically, 12 years of professional oil and gas industry experience of which at least 7 years in an equivalent position
• as Process Safety Engineer, Technical Safety Engineer or Loss Prevention Engineer.
• Good knowledge of Loss Prevention standards and procedure and major hazard legislation.
• Good knowledge of risk assessment techniques and management: Hazard I identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability  review (HAZOP), Hazard Analysis (HAZAN), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and other reviews.
• Proficiency in consequence modeling software PHAST, firewater hydraulic network analysis (PIPENET), fire and gas detection mapping (DETECT-3D)
• Possession of TUV Functional Safety Engineer certification is an added advantage.
• Autonomous with investigation/observation skills, effective communication and organizational capability.