Safety Engineer

Start your career as a Safety Engineer at Vopak and be responsible for providing governance, and continuous improvement to the Process Safety Management (PSM) system.  This includes compliance to regulatory requirements such as the Major Hazard Installations (MHI) Regulations. We offer you a working environment that is safe and pleasant and where equality, diversity and satisfaction are of paramount importance. Ready to develop yourself and make a positive impact? Improve the world and start as a Safety Engineer at Vopak.

What will you do as a Safety Engineer?

As a Safety Engineer, you will be responsible for providing support and guidance to improve operational and SHE performance through the extraction of data for analysis, predicting trends for prioritization of actions and incorporating analysis into execution.  

What do we offer you?

• A market-based salary depending on your experience and knowledge and attractive bonuses

• Various growth opportunities

What do we expect from you as a Safety Engineer?

• Degree in engineering discipline such as Chemical Engineering / Safety Engineering / Safety, Health & Environmental related courses

• Minimum 8 years working experience in the oil, gas or petrochemical industry or familiarity with process safety management

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in SHEQ program administration

• Able to analyze and conduct critical thinking to identify gaps and improvements required

• Understand and advise SHE requirements to employees and contractors

• Abie to conduct training across various demographics

• Able to perform investigations and develop well-written investigation reports

• Proficient in Electronic systems, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint 

Your core responsibilities are:

• Provide governance and support the terminals in safety case submission and ongoing verification by the authorities

• Ensure governance of the Safety Case process by implementing and communicating the framework

• Lead the terminals in Safety Case maintenance and submission including facilitating Revision Plans (RPs) inclusion and following through on the closure of the Intervention Plans (IPs)

• Drive and support the terminals in compliance with the process safety management (PSM) system as per Singapore’s MHI regulations

• Fluent with MOM’s safety acts and regulations

• Monitor and drive improvement against SHE targets

• Support process safety aspects in projects and commercial enquiries, when required

• Assist the SHE Manager to verify terminals’ compliance with process and personnel safety legal and corporate requirements

• Support and guide terminal teams to improve SHE performance to meet the organizations objectives

• Lead and support the terminals in process hazard major hazard risk assessment e.g. QRA, HAZOP, What-If, LOPA, SIL

• Lead in major Hazard Risk Assessments and Process Safety Reviews

• Monitor the action closures required from assessments and reviews

• Identify trends to predict the latest possible issues affecting safety performance. Extract data for reporting and analysis

• Analyze present SHE performance and recommend improvements 

• Act as the Sustainability Reporting Coordinator and performs the required data collation, analysis, reporting and reviews

• Update and maintain the SHE department’s information databases and dashboards

• Act as the Administrator for SHE Electronic Systems.

• Oversee the management of SHE documents and records

• Support and guide on compliance to the organization’s SHE Management Systems and corporate standards 

• Monitor the SHE performance and engage the terminal stakeholders to act

• Support the terminals in improvements in process and personnel safety management 

• Build and maintain good relations between terminals for mutual assistance and facilitate sharing of experiences and information

Want to start as a Safety Engineer at Vopak?

We are interested in learning more about you. To send your application, click the 'apply' button. For more information about the vacancy, please email vtshr.sg@vopak.com

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This Job Description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may cover other related duties to meet the ongoing organizational needs.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

The successful candidate will be awarded a local employment contract.