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

Scope of Work:

The Safety Team at Kent has a summer placement opportunity, open to chemical engineering students in their penultimate year and above. If you would like to apply, please upload your CV and cover letter with your application. Please note that the closing date for applications is 19/02/2025.

As a member of our team in Glasgow, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting and exciting projects, or value adding internal innovation tasks to improve our team’s capabilities and processes.

The starting date is flexible, but we’re looking for the candidate to be available for at least ten weeks over the summer period. Our office is located in Glasgow. Whilst we’d prefer the candidate to mostly work from the office, there is the potential for working from home too.

Key Deliverables:

You will contribute to projects across our three of our Engineering and Consultancy Services markets (Oil and Gas, Offshore Wind, and Low Carbon), with responsibilities including:

• Supporting safety scopes (in particular QRA, Formal Safety Assessments or COMAH) for major hazard industries.
• Consequence modelling using programs such as PHAST.
• Participation in HAZID, HAZOPS, and LOPAs and other risk assessment workshops.
• Project engineering to ensure studies and projects are delivered in compliance with agreed scope, budgets and schedules.
• Contributing to proposals and tenders.
• Participation in innovation projects to continually streamline our toolkits for delivering our assessments.

Key Requirements:

• Working towards an MEng degree in Chemical Engineering.
• A passion for working in a consultancy environment.
• Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do.
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team.
• Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process. Please contact us confidentially at [email protected] to find out how we can support you.