Senior Process Safety Consultant

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SLR’s Process Safety team (part of the wider Process Engineering, Process Safety and Energy Engineering department) offers a diverse range of process safety, engineering and management consultancy advice across the industrial, chemical manufacturing and associated sectors. Centred around our Manchester office, we are currently working actively to grow and develop our business and to enhance the technical services we offer to our existing clients.

To that end we are looking to make an appointment of a Senior Grade Process Safety Consultant with site experience in process safety.

The successful candidate will be required to participate in and manage a range of client and internal projects focused on provision of services to improve the design, operation and maintenance of hazardous processing facilities on client sites; and the role would therefore be ideally suited to a chemical or process engineer with demonstrable experience of working within chemical based manufacturing installations wishing to apply and grow their knowledge and expertise in process safety across a wider range of sectors.

The successful candidate will receive training and development aligned with CPD requirements to support them in gaining chartership of their relevant professional body.

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** Within this customer facing role, the successful applicant can look forward to working on several projects simultaneously (both individually and as a team) across a wide variety of high hazard sites, including chemical manufacturing, onshore bulk storage facilities, warehousing etc and across a range of sectors – chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, explosives, waste to energy and industries where hydrogen is being generated, stored or used in relation to the decarbonisation of the energy sector etc.

The role can be place at any one of the SLR UK offices, but the role involves working on client sites across the UK, and may include working on these sites UK wide for periods of a typically 1-3 days but could extend to a week or more as required.

Typical duties will include:  
• Supporting the development of process engineering standards, manuals, methodologies, work processes, procedures and enabling tools and systems for clients.  
• Audits and authoritative reviews of practices and procedures in place at client sites to confirm whether actual methods of operation match documented procedures.  
• Interfacing with relevant functional groups (e.g. site management, engineering, operations, health and safety, etc.), including leading or conducting studies to help resolve issues related to management of process safety risks.  
• Supporting on-site surveys of chemical process plant (vessels, tanks, pipework, structures, etc.) to ensure that documentation is complete and accurate, producing as-built documents where appropriate.

• Scribe for hazard identification and risk assessment studies, including HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA.  
• Provision of process engineering expertise in support of engineering and EHS studies, design reviews and projects.  
• Consultancy work related to DSEAR.  
• Contribute to clients’ sustainability and growth by identifying cost effective solutions to problems.  
• Ensure client needs and expectations continue to be met in relation to quality, cost and delivery.  
• Delivery of client projects to deadlines and budgets.  
• Delivery of agreed strategic development projects.

Additional duties / areas for development include:

Preparation of COMAH Safety Reports  Preparation of [semi-]quantitative risk assessments including:  ‘Predictive’ submissions under the COMAH Regulations, including representative set development / validation  Occupied Buildings Risk Assessment (OBRA), including toxic refuge siting / condition reviews  Standalone consequence modelling studies, including development and implementation of spreadsheet-based models where required  Use of existing methodologies to provide bespoke offerings, such as:  ‘ALARP’ workshops (further measures studies and past…