Process & Safety Engineer

Process & Safety Engineer – Chemicals Manufacturing (upper tier COMAH) – Teesside – £50‑60k + bonus/benefits

We're working with a well‑established chemical manufacturer to recruit a Process & Safety Engineer to support operations on their upper tier COMAH site. This role suits an engineer with around 4‑7 years' experience looking to develop across process engineering, plant support and process safety in a regulated environment.

You’ll provide day‑to‑day process engineering support to manufacturing operations while contributing to process safety activities, plant optimisation and capex projects. Working closely with operations and projects teams, you’ll help ensure safe, efficient and compliant plant performance.

• Support and participate in HAZOP, HAZID, What-If and LOPA studies
• Provide process troubleshooting and optimisation support
• Maintain process safety and technical documentation
• Support capex projects, including design input, MOC and commissioning
• Assist with incident investigations, PSSRs and action close‑out
• Contribute to COMAH compliance and continuous improvement initiatives

• Degree in Chemical Engineering
• 4‑7 years’ experience in chemical or regulated manufacturing
• Practical understanding of plant operations and process safety tools
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills

• Broad, hands‑on engineering role, covering the full breadth of operations, projects and process safety
• Ideal environment for chartership

If you’d like to find out more and are keen to take on a genuinely varied role as a Process Engineer, please get in touch.