Senior Safety Engineer, Houston

EPCONSULT has established itself as one of the foremost specialist safety engineering consultancies in the oil and gas industry. Our expertise in providing engineering studies, risk analysis, and optimization studies has resulted in involvement in many unique projects to a wide range of clients. Our flat organizational structure brings together a team of highly skillful engineers, working in a dynamic and technology driven environment. We are now seeking to identify and employ a Senior Safety and Risk Engineer for our Houston office.

This positions involves some traveling. You will be working on various types of projects and studies for our international list of clients. You will be responsible for conducting safety and risk assessment studies for onshore and offshore projects and you will also be involved in other types of studies. You will be working in teams and sometimes working individually. You will also attend workshops and be client-facing. The predominant industry is oil and gas and also renewable energy. You will be conversant with traditional safety engineering and have experience in conducting risk analysis. You will be analytical and have experience with probabilistic modeling. You will be skillful with hazard analysis, frequency analysis, consequence analysis and associated assessments. You will be very comfortable with writing study reports. You will be keen to contribute to the continued growth of a dynamic consultancy.

Required competencies:

• You should have a Ph.D. or M.Sc. in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering or other relevant engineering discipline.
• You should have minimum 10 years experience in safety and risk analysis for the oil and gas industry. That will include experience in some or all of: Safety Case studies, HAZID, HAZOP, ESSA, EERA, QRA, RAM, FMECA, FTA amongst others.
• You will be familiar with the use of industry software for the analysis of safety and risk.
• You will be analytical and you will have experience in risk assessment, probabilistic analysis and numerical modeling.
• You will be keen to learn and be a self-starter.
• You will be keen to contribute to building the company and coaching younger engineers.
• You are ambitious and serious about your career.
• You have excellent skills in oral and written English.
• You will have great interpersonal skills.
  

The position requires a highly skilled engineer who is prepared to work in a dynamic, challenging and varied work environment. The company takes personal development very seriously. A significant package is available for the selected candidate.

If If your experience, skills and ambition match the above description, please send resume and salary history to Peter Carr at EPCONSULT in Houston.

We also have a job vacancy for a Senior Safety Engineer in our London office.