Lead Process Safety Engineer

Location/s: Glasgow, Altrincham, Bristol, London; UK

Recruiter contact: Erinda Hazizi

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.

As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension.

Together with our clients, we're helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Overview of the role

Due to continued growth, we are looking to recruit an ambitious Lead Process Safety Engineer to provide technical leadership across a diverse programme of global projects. You'll undertake a mixture of design and consultancy work across several industry sectors, largely nuclear; with the opportunity to support the wider business in other areas including on energy transition projects.

The ideal candidate would be someone looking to take a leading role in driving growth within a global consultancy in a highly supportive and collaborative environment.

Key responsibilities and duties include

• Undertake design and safety design work on projects and proposals
• Undertake the Lead Engineer role in projects and proposals
• Develop, guide and coach process safety engineers
• Lead activities required to ensure that projects can be operated safely and reliably and in accordance with applicable codes and standards. This may involve supporting discrete process safety activities, e.g. leadership and participation in HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, SIL, ATEX, DSEAR, QRA, etc
• Responsible for ensuring that the Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) aspects of each project are maintained to the relevant acceptable standards
• Ensure that working procedures and engineering execution standards are current and enforced
• Consequence modelling for loss of containment scenarios
• Hazardous area classification calculation and drawings, including fire hazard assessments
• Commissioning and start-up activities on site

Candidate specification

You'll be a degree qualified process safety engineer capable of demonstrating a strong knowledge of design safety from concept through to detailed design. You'll have engineering expertise across a range of industrial applications, ideally including nuclear, chemicals, power generation and allied sectors.

The following skillsets are desirable

• Demonstratable experience producing deliverables, meeting project objectives and targets and developing innovative solutions
• Excellent report writing and communication skills, including participating in client and other meetings and presentations
• Ability to work on your own initiative or as part of a team as well as liaising with technical and other disciplines during execution of projects
• Sharp analytical skills and the ability to present quantitative knowledge to non-experts
• Excellent working ability of MS Office and relevant software packages
• Relevant system design experience including the development of PFDs, P&IDs, technical reports and specifications, control philosophies, layout development / safety assessments of plot plans, and associated documentation and system modelling capability
• Appreciation of some experience in the commercial sphere of project work including contract terms and project management experience

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years' service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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