Technical Safety Engineer (Four Years Contract)

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)

Provide advice and guidance on the appropriate risk mitigation measures required for operational and integrity related technical/process safety issues.

Provide guidance, development and lateral learning to other technical safety engineers in PDO. Especially support and mentor young graduate Omani engineers in technical safety engineering.

Work with specialist technical safety engineering contractors, including work planning and prioritisation, quality assurance and budgetary control.

Participate in reviews and audits in order to facilitate lateral learning and ensure gaps in the systems are addressed.

Execute accountabilities and responsibilities identified in the Decision Control and Authorities Framework (DCAF) matrix of accountabilities and responsibilities. In summary, these include:

• Providing guidance on compliance with PDO standards and Oman legislation relating to process safety hazards and seeking discipline approval for step-outs.
• Developing HSE cases and supporting hazard identification and risk assessment (HEMP) studies on behalf of the operations or project manager.
• Ensuring that own technical safety engineering discipline engineering design work is delivered successfully and that appropriate reviews are conducted.
• Carrying out appropriate TSE discipline and inter-discipline checks and reviews of engineering and design work.
• Contributing to the development of execution contracting strategies that compliment designs, construction methods and operating methods.
• Assessing the root causes and learning s from process safety incidents to determine appropriate actions and the need for lateral learning.

Contributing to maintenance and update of relevant safety engineering standards.