HW Interim Solutions
Chief Engineer - Interim
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Interim Chief Engineer | Major Energy Infrastructure
HW Solutions are partnering with a major UK energy infrastructure organisation to appoint an Interim Chief Engineer during the search for a permanent successor.
This is a senior and business-critical appointment. The Chief Engineer will act as the organisation’s ultimate technical authority, providing leadership and independent assurance across process safety, functional safety, asset integrity, engineering governance and regulatory compliance.
Operating within a complex, safety-critical environment, you will provide technical leadership across the engineering function and ensure that major engineering risks are understood, appropriately controlled and effectively communicated to senior leadership and regulators.
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- Providing senior leadership and assurance across process safety and major accident hazard management
- Acting as the recognised technical authority for asset integrity and engineering risk
- Providing independent technical challenge around high-consequence operational and engineering decisions
- Ensuring effective governance of safety-critical systems, engineering standards and Management of Change
- Providing assurance around regulatory compliance and engagement within a COMAH / major-hazard environment
- Leading and supporting a multidisciplinary community of engineering specialists and Technical Authorities
- Contributing to asset strategy and investment decisions, balancing safety, resilience, performance and cost
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We are particularly interested in speaking with senior engineering leaders who have operated within Upper Tier COMAH or comparable major-hazard environments.
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You may currently or previously have held a position such as Chief Engineer, Engineering Director, Technical Director, Head of Engineering or senior Technical Authority within oil & gas, gas infrastructure, LNG, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial gases or another high-hazard process industry.
Deep expertise across every technical discipline is not expected. However, candidates should bring substantial senior-level experience of process safety, engineering governance and asset integrity, together with the credibility to provide technical assurance at Executive and regulatory level.
This is an interim requirement, so we are particularly keen to hear from experienced senior engineering leaders who are currently consulting, immediately available or able to mobilise at relatively short notice.
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