Posted 20 June, 2026
Principal Safety Engineer
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Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India,600119
Full Time
Reference: 365_656511_26-01883
Principal Safety Engineer
Location: Hyderabad/Chennai/Mumbai/Pune (onsite)
Experience: 5+ Years
Qualifications: • Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage
Responsibilities
- Design Safety Reviews / Studies, Layout, EERA, ESSA, F&G, Dropped Object, Hazardous Area.
- Ensure technical integrity of the Safety & Risk discipline’s deliverables through the implementation of checking and design review activities.
- Document key design decisions that may have a significant safety impact.
- Squad checking of deliverables
- Updating lessons learnt in the lessons learnt register.
- Undertake Fire and Explosion Studies and other Risk based studies consistent with Safety Case application.
- Analysis Studies, Smoke Dispersion modeling, Escape and Rescue Modeling and Emergency System Vulnerability Assessments.
- Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
- Supports Lead Engineer in monitoring quality activities and takes action where required.
- Manage safety design and any design changes within budget and schedule.
- Prepare and participate in weekly discipline meetings, prepare progress reports and follow required checking procedures.
- Review and approve all related technical documents and coordinate with the Lead Engineer.
- Execute verification, studies and detail design following best engineering practices and optimization in term of cost, construction simplicity, operability and maintainability, HSSE.
- Complete Risk Assessments for clients using Excel spreadsheets or visual basic programs (SMORM & HARRI) developed by Worley Safety & Risk Management.
Quality
- Responsible for working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance systems.
Qualification:
- Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage
Safety
- Responsible for personal safety safe working practices. Understand and follow OH&S procedures.
- Promoting health, safety and environmental awareness.
Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
- Full-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage
Industry Specific Experience:
- Must have vast safety design in offshore oil & gas industry in a brownfield environment
- Must have solid experience in Technical Safety / Loss Prevention in the Oil&Gas Industry.
- Performs as a professional Safety & Risk engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front End Development through execution, commissioning and start-up.
- Recent experience in an engineering consultancy in a multidiscipline environment is essential.
Key area of expertise:
- Active Fire Protection (Firewater demand, hydraulic analysis, P&IDs, PFDs, etc)
- F&G layouts, C/E diagrams
- Passive Fire Protection
- Datasheets and specifications, MTO
- Hazardous Area Classification (Schedule and Drawings)
- Good knowledge of NFPA and International Standards for Technical Safety / Loss Prevention
- Safety Systems Gap analysis
- Consequence analysis (gas dispersion, toxic, fires, explosion, vent dispersion, flare radiation modeling)
- Risk Assessment and Process Hazards Analysis (HAZID, HAZOP, SIL/LOPA, SIMOPS)
- Safety Critical Elements and Performance Standards
- Risk Register / action follow-up and close-out
- ALARP assessment, Bow-ties, and Cost-Benefit analysis
- Client interface / Results presentation
IT Skills:
- Pipenet, PHAST, SAFETI, PHA Pro, Flaresim, Detect3D (optional), exSILentia (optional)