Senior Functional Safety Engineer

Purpose

The Senior Functional Safety Engineer designs and engineers solutions that achieve high standards of safety, reliability, and sustainability for offshore oil & gas projects, ensuring Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and functional safety deliverables meet international codes, industry standards, and project requirements throughout the EPC lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or perform functional safety analyses and studies, including HAZOP, SIL classification/determination, LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis), SIL verification, and functional safety assessments (FSA), across concept, FEED, and detailed design phases.
• Develop and maintain Safety Requirement Specifications (SRS) for Safety Instrumented Systems, and ensure SIS design complies with IEC 61508/61511 and applicable company/industry standards.
• Act as Responsible Engineer with technical ownership of functional safety analyses and studies conducted by third parties, reviewing and validating vendor/subcontractor deliverables.
• Support the selection of methods and procedures, and optimize designs within scope of specification while maintaining compliance with international codes and regulations.
• Interface with I&E/ICSS, process, and process safety disciplines to ensure consistency of SIS/SIL deliverables across system boundaries.
• Proactively plan and deliver functional safety activities and deliverables within agreed time frames and budgets on EPC projects.
• Coordinate with vendors, subcontractors, and third parties on functional safety scope, in line with contractual and internal requirements.
• Capture and apply lessons learned, assessing change impact within and across project system boundaries.
• May lead other engineers on a defined scope of work, and may act as Discipline Lead (Functional Safety / I&E) for an assigned scope.

Education

• Engineering degree

Experience

• 10–15 years in the Oil & Gas industry, with substantial hands-on experience in functional safety analysis and studies (HAZOP, SIL, LOPA, SIL verification, SRS development).
• EPC project experience required.
• Offshore project experience strongly preferred.

Functional Competencies

• Functional Safety: SIL classification, LOPA, SIL verification, SRS development
• Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) design and lifecycle per IEC 61508/61511
• I&E/ICSS engineering design and calculation tools
• Concept development and detailed design
• Systems engineering
• Site engineering and analysis
• Planning and third-party/vendor coordination