Process Safety Specialist in Port Talbot

Department: Capex

Location: Port Talbot (SA13)

Contract: Fixed term until 31st December 2028

Closing Date: Sunday 8th February 2026

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.

Are you passionate about ensuring safe, compliant, and risk-aware industrial operations? Do you want to play a pivotal role in shaping how process safety is embedded across an entire organisation? We are looking for a Lead Process Safety Engineer to drive excellence in process safety and uphold best practice across our operations. This role will partner with senior stakeholders, engineers, and safety leaders to implement a robust Process Safety Management System, ensuring that both legislative requirements and industry standards are fully reflected in how we operate. Your expertise will directly safeguard people, assets, and performance at a strategic level.

What you will do:

• Supporting development and rollout of the Process Safety Management strategy and roadmap.
• Deploying safety standards, codes of practice, guides and specialist frameworks across business units.
• Leading risk assessments, incident investigations and process hazard evaluations.
• Advising managers, engineers and technical specialists on process safety decisions.
• Translating wider industry best practice into operational application in heavy industry and COMAH environments.
• Developing and reporting Process Safety KPIs to drive learning, improvement and accountability.
• Conducting system audits and identifying areas for risk reduction and improved compliance.
• Providing insight, analysis and training that strengthens safety ownership at all levels of the business.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong understanding of Process Safety and COMAH frameworks.
• Deep knowledge in specialist areas such as Risk Assessment, LOPA, SIL, OBRA, MOC, Human Factors or Emergency Preparedness.
• Ability to analyse complex technical risks, model probability, and communicate implications clearly.
• Credibility and confidence to influence stakeholders at every level of the organisation.
• Demonstrated experience delivering process safety improvements in an industrial, process, or regulated environment.
• Degree in process or chemical engineering, ideally with chartership or progression towards IChemE membership.

Your work will have a direct, positive impact on people’s safety and operational integrity. You’ll be a trusted advisor, a technical authority, and a key driver of safety culture - ensuring that risk is proactively identified, understood, and managed with rigor and confidence.

What we can offer you:

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
• Ongoing Tata Steel training, which has built a reputation as one of the best within the industry
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)
• Extensive lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea. Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today. Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045.