Senior Process Safety Consultant in Bury St Edmunds

SLR’s Process Safety team offers a diverse range of process safety, engineering and management consultancy advice across industrial, chemical manufacturing and associated sectors. Centred around our Manchester office, we are currently growing the business and enhancing the technical services offered to our existing clients. We are looking to appoint a Senior Grade Process Safety Consultant with site experience in process safety.

In this customer facing role, the successful applicant can work on several projects simultaneously (individually and as a team) across a wide variety of high hazard sites, including chemical manufacturing, onshore bulk storage facilities, warehousing and across sectors such as chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, explosives, waste to energy and industries where hydrogen is generated, stored or used in relation to decarbonisation of the energy sector. The role can be placed at any one of the SLR UK offices, but work will involve client sites across the UK and may include UK-wide assignments typically 1-3 days, potentially extending to a week or more as required.

The successful candidate will participate in and manage client and internal projects focused on improving the design, operation and maintenance of hazardous processing facilities on client sites. The role is ideally suited to a chemical or process engineer with demonstrable experience in chemical manufacturing installations who wishes to apply and grow their knowledge and expertise in process safety across a wider range of sectors. The successful candidate will receive training and development aligned with CPD requirements to support chartership of their relevant professional body.

Typical duties:

• Supporting the development of process engineering standards, manuals, methodologies, work processes, procedures and enabling tools and systems for clients.
• Audits and authoritative reviews of practices and procedures at client sites to confirm alignment with documented procedures.
• Interfacing with relevant functional groups (e.g. site management, engineering, operations, health and safety, etc.), including leading or conducting studies to help resolve issues related to management of process safety risks.
• Supporting on-site surveys of chemical process plant (vessels, tanks, pipework, structures, etc.) to ensure documentation is complete and accurate, producing as-built documents where appropriate.
• Scribe for hazard identification and risk assessment studies, including HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA.
• Provision of process engineering expertise in support of engineering and EHS studies, design reviews and projects.
• Consultancy work related to DSEAR.
• Contribute to clients’ sustainability and growth by identifying cost effective solutions to problems.
• Ensure client needs and expectations continue to be met in relation to quality, cost and delivery.
• Delivery of client projects to deadlines and budgets.
• Delivery of agreed strategic development projects.

Additional duties / areas for development:

• Preparation of COMAH Safety Reports.
• Preparation of [semi-]quantitative risk assessments including: ‘Predictive’ submissions under the COMAH Regulations, including representative set development/validation.
• Occupied Buildings Risk Assessment (OBRA), including toxic refuge siting/condition reviews.
• Standalone consequence modelling studies, including development and implementation of spreadsheet-based models where required.
• Use of existing methodologies to provide bespoke offerings, such as: ‘ALARP’ workshops (further measures studies and past accident reviews).
• Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA).

SLR are global leaders in Sustainability Solutions, helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals. We are a consultancy with 4000+ employees across 6 regions in over 125 countries. Our ‘one team’ culture is at the heart of our business, providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development. We offer competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package with a company pension plus healthcare, travel and life insurance, and a structured career framework with regular reviews offering opportunities for progression. We offer 25 days of annual leave, flexible bank holidays, and flexible, agile and hybrid working to balance professional and home life.

About You:

We are looking for someone with strong experience in a similar position seeking a new opportunity in a busy established team, or someone at project level looking to take the next step in their career. We would like to see the following:

• Degree in Chemical or Process Engineering.
• Good experience within the Chemical Manufacturing industry (including design principles, process and standards for process plant).
• Strong knowledge of relevant UK legislation in this sector (e.g. COMAH, DSEAR and related codes/standards).
• Ability to develop good relationships with work colleagues and to contribute constructively and effectively to projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Client management and business development skills.
• Due to travel requirements, the ability to drive would be advantageous.

Culture & Inclusion at SLR:

We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We foster an inclusive environment where all people can thrive, regardless of background. We welcome applications from all individuals, including those from groups that are under-represented at SLR, such as people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, Indigenous peoples, ethnic minority groups, women, and people with disabilities, including those who are neurodivergent. If you require any special adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we seek to ensure all applicants have equitable support when applying to SLR. All applicants with a disability who meet the essential requirements for the job will be guaranteed an interview in line with our Disability Confident Committed status.