Job Description

Are you a Process Safety Engineer with a credible national profile in process safety engineering and extensive experience relating to continuous biogas process plants? Are you ready to make your mark on an award-winning business in the water, waste and energy industry, and help to improve UK process safety?

We aspire to be the leading UK Water Company in DSEAR related safety \xe2\x80\x93 can you help make it happen? If so, we have a great opportunity for you in our team, setting standards, devising procedures, and authorising personnel to significantly impact our process safety performance.

The role

The Lead Process Safety Engineer is a pivotal role, responsible for developing and supporting process safety systems in the Wessex Water Group/YTL Group of companies in the UK.

Reporting to the Head of Water Recycling Avonmouth and working with managers, health and safety professionals and external parties, you will provide support to ensure effective process safety, systems and compliance are in place.

As the technical expert, you will be relied upon to author and own the DSEAR related process safety procedures, standards and safety rules, and provide a national, best practice perspective from your wider professional work in process safety engineering.

Alongside this you will provide expert advice on hazard identification (HAZID), hazard operability (HAZOP), layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and safety integrity level (SIL), while also promoting safe working practices and challenging unsafe behaviours as you come across them.

You will complete site incident investigation, root cause analysis and reporting. You will also recommend remedial actions and facilitate training workshops where necessary, including supporting and developing course content.

Additionally, you will undertake regular audits and inspections while reviewing/challenging work in progress, as well as ensuring existing inspection reports, DSEAR assessments, asset standards and safe operating procedures are reviewed and regularly updated.

What do I need?

To be of sufficient seniority for this role you will either be an established figure in the process safety field (Fellowship or CEng) with national credibility and extensive experience (five to 10 years) of biogas or similar process plants, or a developing Engineer close to achieving the same.

Having a technical expert on process safety engineering is paramount in this position and so is communication. This role will see you frequently interact with a wealth of stakeholders, varying in seniority throughout the business, so you will need to be an engaging communicator, who is able to articulate views on preferred courses of actions.

As a minimum you would have the following:

• a degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
• at least five to ten years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a Process Safety Engineer role in a high hazard industry, with bio-gas experience (or equivalent)
• a Chartered Engineer and member of IChemE or IMechE (or able to achieve this in one to two years with minor additional competencies)
• a successful track record in institutional technical activity, standards committees or national or governmental bodies, drafting consulting on and publishing standards
• knowledge and understanding of environmental regulations and best practice procedures
• knowledge of DSEAR, process safety, HAZOP and HAZID, health and safety and environmental regulations and best practice procedures
• working knowledge of water supply, wastewater treatment and recycling operational assets (or equivalent always-on 24 hour process operation).

Benefits for you

• Pension \xe2\x80\x93 up to 20% combined contribution
• 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday rising to 28 with length of service
• Opportunity to buy and sell up to five days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday
• Health benefits package
• Life assurance (up to four times your salary)
• Electric vehicle salary exchange
• Flexible working
• Cashback and discounts from over 1,200 retailers
• Paid volunteering day
• Enhanced family leave
• Interactive health and wellbeing platform
• Support from mental health first aiders
• \xc2\xa31,000 referral fee if you recommend someone to work for us

What will you get from us?

Our people tell us Wessex Water is a great place to work, and they stay with us! We are proud of how we support development and career progression. We have a wealth of both financial and non-financial benefits to offer our people and are committed to ensuring we provide an environment that supports health and wellbeing and flexible working.

We continue to promote diversity and inclusion. With that in mind, we welcome all applicants.

We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer. Applicants who declare they have a disability or have previously served with the Armed Forces, and meet the minimum requirements for the job, will automatically be invited for an interview.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to assist you in starting your journey with Wessex Water.

If you have what it takes to join this award-winning business and want to be part of our exciting journey and share in that success, then please get in contact with us to find out more.

Sound interesting? Please click APPLY to progress to the next step.

We do not accept CVs from recruitment agencies. We are an equal opportunities employer. You must be able to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK and proof of skills and qualifications gained. Appointment of successful applicant/s will also be subject to receiving suitable references and basic (or where job applicable) other criminal disclosure checks.

We respect and value everyone\'s contribution. Wessex Water is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing an environment that supports and encourages the many skills, interests, backgrounds and experiences that people from different social groups can bring. We strive to provide a workplace which is free from discrimination, harassment and bullying, and where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a medical condition, disability or learning difficulty which could impact on your ability to apply or take part in the recruitment process, please email . We are dedicated to treating all existing and prospective colleagues fairly and will do everything we can to support you during the application and selection process.

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