About you:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us: https://kentplc.com/who-we-are/purpose-beliefs

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the job:

Kent is looking for Lead Technical Safety.

Skills and Responsibilities:

· Provide integrity assurance of Process designs through appropriate application of client technical standards and specifications, implementation of DCAF and review of design deliverables and activities.

· Ensure schedule and cost considerations are included in design decisions, while maintaining primary responsibility to assure safe and appropriate quality designs.

· Ensure repeated delivery of projects with HSSE & SP risks demonstrably managed to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP), creating a workplace without harm.

· Ensure Technical HSE Engineering activities are executed in alignment with client’s Project Delivery Roadmap and Opportunity Realization Process.

· Validate strategies/conceptual designs during early project phases.

· Audit construction field activities for compliance and assist in resolution of field non-conformance issues as required.

· Ensure design meets requirements of client’s TSE & HSSE Requirements.

· Design and develop, as required, innovative technical approaches to the broader Technical HSE engineering issues and contribute to continuous business improvement initiatives (fit for purpose)

· Deliver integrated HSE risk management support (including hazard identification, major hazard assessment, developing HSE Cases and contributing to layout reviews, human factors, and health risk assessments, ESH impact assessment, as part of the Hazards and Effects Management Process) across the full lifecycle of the projects.

· Identification and communication of HSSE best practices

· Provide (one stop shop) Technical HSE engineering support and delivery in accordance with the HSSE & SP Control Framework and associated standards, guidelines, and relevant regulatory safety requirements for QPH minor / base and medium projects and large projects.

· Accountability for technical HSE engineering deliverables and engineering execution planning support including provision of senior engineering expertise.

· Proactively working with the Engineering Manager to keep projects on track and achieve Top Quartile (TQ) performance for the portfolio.

· Drive and delivery of an ever-increasing effectiveness and efficiency in producing project designs, through Elimination, Simplification, Standardisation and Automation balanced against the need for Top Quartile FEL in, and quality designs.

· Responsible for team workflow month on month to ensure all priorities of the project are met.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:

BSc., University in Mechanical / Chemical Engineering / Process Engineering or equivalent

Experience and Skill set

· Minimum 15 years’ experience in Oil and Gas related Technical HSE Design and Engineering out of which minimum 5-10 years’ experience in Oil and Gas Project Delivery as an Umbrella Contract Lead Technical HSE engineer function in a multidiscipline Workforce.

· Performs as a professional Technical HSE engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front End Development through execution / commissioning and start-up

· Fully conversant with quantitative risk and consequences simulation software examples such as PHAST risk, FRED, SHEPHERD etc

· Experience of working on brown-field projects executed in IRAQ will be a distinct added advantage

· Experience in the Middle East, an advantage, as is front-end and commissioning experience and execution.

· Proven leadership skills and strong personal drive-in order to meet deadlines and specific targets.

· Experienced HAZID / HAZOP Secretary (Must)

· Fully conversant with Hazard and effects management process / bowtie development (Must)

· Team player with clear evidence of working with others to deliver on goals.

· Strong, and demonstrated, personal commitment to HSSE Leadership and experience in managing HSSE throughout all project phases

· Being able to discuss technical issues with process engineers

· Experience in providing support to engineering disciplines

· Experience with project management

Communication:

· Good communication skills and report writing skills, experience of writing technical reports is essential

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

· Positive HSE Culture mindset

· Proven leadership skills and strong personal drive-in order to meet deadlines and specific targets.

· Team player with clear evidence of working with others to deliver on goals.

· Strong, and demonstrated, personal commitment to HSSE Leadership and experience in managing HSSE throughout all project phases

· Ability to work and manage in a multi-cultural environment