Sr. Technical Safety Engineer

Location: Stavanger

Job function: Engineering

Deadline for application: 05/01/2025

The Sr. Technical Safety Engineer provides expert support to the organization in all facets of Technical Safety. This role is crucial in ensuring that the company’s facilities are designed, constructed, operated, and maintained at an acceptable risk level. The role will ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations, adhere to industry standards, implement best engineering practices, and meet company-specific requirements.

Main tasks

Your tasks and responsibilities may include several of the following, depending on your professional experience:

Support relevant company functions in areas of technical safety, process safety and barrier management. Conduct technical safety evaluations related to design, deviations, changes, and modifications for operated assets, brownfield/modification projects, Lifetime Extension projects and development projects
Follow up that applicable risk analyses and risk/barrier management activities (e.g TRA/QRA, HAZOP/HAZID, SIL, LOPA, gap analysis, etc) are performed, and that design basis and assumptions are reviewed and updated in line with updates to regulations, new standards, and engineering practices
Raise major accident hazard and process safety barrier management awareness across the company
Review, follow up and develop technical safety/Barrier Management related documentation, such as philosophies, design basis, safety strategies, performance standards etc.
Travel offshore as required to follow up relevant activities

Qualifications

Master's degree or equivalent
Minimum 5-10 years of relevant experience within technical safety

About you

Good technical safety/barrier management knowledge (Experience with PSA regulations and relevant standards, e.g Norsok S-001, ISO 13702, IEC 61508/61511).
Ability to communicate and create engagement within all organizational levels.
Proactive mindset and able to drive change and improvement in the organization.
Ability to work independently and ensure/provide decision making.
Fluent in the Norwegian and English languages.
Ability and willingness to travel offshore.

We are offering

Challenging tasks in a dynamic and a strong competent environment with the opportunity to grow, learn and be creative
Competitive salary and benefits such as pension, insurance schemes, loan arrangements, access to cabins, additional days off and a comprehensive welfare package
Internationally diverse working environment and internal development opportunities
To be a part of a company which believes in the future of the NCS and offers rewarding tasks and responsibilities for the right candidate
A strong corporate culture where we are team players, with focus on new solutions, learning and integrity

Background checks are performed on all final candidates and all permanent and temporary hires will be screened against relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions law

Contact person

Anders Tharaldsen, Technical Safety & Barrier Manager

Vår Energi is one of the leading oil and gas companies in Norway and a major supplier of gas to Europe.

At a time when stable access to energy is a crucial part of European security policy, we have a particular responsibility to contribute with energy to millions of Europeans. At the same time, we have committed to ambitious climate targets, extensively reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The challenges ahead are great. As are our ambitions. Working to supply energy has perhaps never been more important and meaningful than now.

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