Lead Safety Engineer

Technical Professional Leader

Title:

Technical Professional Leader

Division:
KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

Summary Section:
As a Lead Safety Engineer, under broad direction, supervises and leads a group of engineers. Provides technical direction over a group and is responsible for employee performance appraisals and for coaching and developing junior professionals. Plans, budgets, organizes, and controls an important segment of a very extensive and highly diversified engineering program or an entire engineering program of moderate scope. Job role is responsible for a measurable asset such as an assigned staff and budget.

Responsibilities:

• As part of a project team, perform all aspects of Technical Safety scope area, or provide specialist expertise in one or more key project areas.

• May supervise and lead the Technical Safety team: provide technical direction over a group with responsibility for employee performance appraisals and for coaching and developing lower level professionals. 

• Lead the design of larger and more complex assignments.

• Provide technical guidance to designers and less experienced engineers.

• With appropriate experience, lead the project Technical Safety team.

• Minimum of 10 years related experience, with average experience of 20+ years.

• Expert level understanding of one or more areas of Technical Safety scope.

• Able to check and confirm completeness of deliverables including safety layouts and reports.

• Technical Safety Skills in

• Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessments,

• HAZID/HAZOP Chair,

• Fire & Explosion Analysis,

• Safety Critical Elements/Performance Standards,

• Safety Integrity Levels,

• Layer of Protection Analysis,

• Vessel survivability analysis,

• Safety Management Systems,

• Dropped Object Studies,

• Emergency systems Survivability Analyses,

• Developing HSE Execution Plans.
  
  Qualifications including Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• BEng or equivalent in science or engineering (typically Chemical Engineering)

• Masters degree in Engineering (Chemical Engineering or Process Safety preferred)

• Chartered Engineer: membership of an accredited Institution, e.g. IChemE.
  
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Experience Level

Senior Level