Group Process Safety Specialist

** This is a global role and can be based at any Scott Bader location worldwide. Regular travel across our international sites will be required.**

As our new Group Process Safety Specialist, you will lead and continuously improve the Group’s Process Safety Management (PSM) programme, providing expert support through assisted site visits and acting as the competent authority on process safety. You will maintain a central register of process hazard data and routinely review compliance to ensure robust standards are consistently applied.

You will champion the sharing of best practice across all sites, delivering specialist process safety training where needed, and developing meaningful performance indicators. Through auditing and monitoring, you will ensure process safety systems are effective, embedded, and working as intended across the Group.

• Lead the identification and control of major accident hazards, ensuring all sites have defined major accident scenarios and robust action plans in place to reduce risks to an acceptable level.
• Establish, implement and continuously improve Group Process Safety Management (PSM) policies, standards and the 20 core elements of the PSM framework, working closely with site leadership teams.
• Act as the Group subject matter expert for process safety, leading hazard identification and risk assessment activities (e.g. HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL, Human Factors), supporting regulatory interactions, and providing technical input to process and engineering design.
• Drive strong process safety performance through clear goals, accountability, performance indicators, and a structured programme of monitoring, audit, review and incident investigation.
• Provide leadership, training and specialist guidance across the Group, collaborating with R&D and Process Technology, maintaining central process hazard data, and ensuring recognised good practice and regulatory requirements are met across all jurisdictions.

• Senior-level expertise in Process Safety Management, supported by a relevant formal qualification.
• Proven leadership of process hazard studies, including HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA, with responsibility for standards, training and competency.
• Strong background in chemical or process manufacturing, operating as a subject matter expert at senior and regulatory level.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with fluent English and the ability to build strong rapport.
• Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis (approximately 25–50%) to support and lead site-based activity.

• A competitive reward package, including participation in a company-wide bonus scheme that reflects our commitment to shared success and collaboration.
• Retirement and long-term savings support, with enhanced employer contributions aligned to local market practices.
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits, alongside access to additional employee discounts and benefit programmes, tailored by location.
• Generous annual leave entitlement, plus public holidays in line with local legislation.
• Paid volunteering time and community support, including dedicated time for volunteering and matched fundraising to support causes that matter to you.

Scott Bader is an employee-owned global manufacturer of advanced composites, structural adhesives and functional polymers. Established in 1921, we have a century of expertise in manufacturing high-quality, innovative products for a variety of markets around the world. Scott Bader now employs 800 people across 7 manufacturing sites and 18 offices worldwide.

We are committed to expanding our global reach, with recent ventures including North America, India, Japan and Australia, while continuing to build on our reputation for innovation, outstanding quality and technical expertise.

Scott Bader is different to most other companies. Our business is based on the simple principle of maintaining a balance between our social purpose and business needs. In 1951 we became the first UK company to hold a Common Ownership Certificate when the Bader family handed over their shares to The Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited – in simple terms, this means that Scott Bader colleagues own and are responsible for the success and overall wellbeing of the company.

Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people, and ensures we treat each other and customers with respect. We appreciate different and fresh ways of thinking, encouraging innovation where colleagues feel they can express their views freely, and create a working atmosphere in which everyone is able to deliver a high‑quality service.