Head of Process Safety

Responsible for leading the development, implementation and continual improvement of our Process Safety Management System (PSMS). The role delivers enhanced process safety tools and methodologies and provides practical deployment support and guidance to our teams, YTL UK service providers and third-party partners.

What you'll do

The Head of Process Safety plays a pivotal role in embedding PSMS standards, promoting inherently safer design principles and ensuring robust application of process hazard analysis (PHA) and associated risk management.

You will:

• Partner with the Safety Director to establish and maintain a compliant, effective and operational PSMS
• Provide expert process safety advice to Divisional Directors across Waste Recycling, Water Production, and Engineering and Asset Management
• Support the professional development of Process Safety Engineers
• Develop and deliver the annual Process Safety Plan in collaboration with the Safety Director
• Chair the monthly Process Safety Steering Committee
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the Major Accident Hazard (MAH) Register, consolidating all credible MAH scenarios identified through PHA.

What you'll need

You will:

• Have experience in senior process safety management roles
• Demonstrate strong process safety expertise, with extensive experience applying engineering and operational systems management within high-hazard, COMAH-regulated industries, such as oil and gas
• Possess a thorough understanding of Process Safety management and COMAH regulations, with proven deployment competence in specialist areas such as risk assessment, LOPA, SIL, OBRA, MoC, human factors and emergency preparedness
• Have the ability to chair/facilitate PHAs and risk assessments, with solid knowledge of HazID, HazOp, Bow-Tie analysis and barrier/lines-of-defence management
• Understand process-industry operations and business environments sufficiently to advise on effective process safety management deployment strategies
• Fully understand the management of change principles and support the effective implementation of our MoC policy and procedures across high-hazard facilities
• Be capable of analysing complex problems, interpreting probability and risk and conducting detailed investigations
• Exhibit strong communication, interpersonal and people-development skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders positively
• Demonstrate deep professional competence in process safety management systems and their effective deployment
• Manage Process Safety teams in upper or lower tier COMAH facilities
• Develop and deliver process safety standards, procedures and training programmes
• Establish and maintain process safety performance reporting (PSPIs)
• Engage with the COMAH competent authority
• Be a degree-qualified professional, ideally in chemical, process engineering or other engineering discipline (chartered status is preferred).