Technical Safety Lead

A Technical Safety Lead for Rosetti Marino in Abu Dhabi would typically lead all process and technical safety engineering activities for offshore/onshore Oil & Gas EPC projects. This differs from a site HSE role because it focuses mainly on engineering design safety and major-accident risk.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical safety and loss-prevention engineering activities throughout FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.


• Develop and review the project’s Safety Philosophy, Fire Protection Philosophy, Escape and Evacuation Philosophy, and Hazardous Area Classification.


• Plan, coordinate, and close out safety studies, including:
  
  
  
  • HAZID and HAZOP
  
  
  • SIL and LOPA
  
  
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
  
  
  • Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment (FERA)
  
  
  • Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA)
  
  
  • Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Analysis (EERA)
  
  
  • Dropped-object, blowdown, dispersion, and consequence studies
  
  
  • Bowtie and ALARP assessments
  
  
  
  


• Ensure that identified hazards are eliminated or reduced to ALARP and that all recommendations are properly tracked and closed.


• Prepare and review technical safety deliverables, including:
  
  
  
  • Fire and gas detection layouts
  
  
  • Firewater demand calculations and hydraulic studies
  
  
  • Active and passive fire-protection requirements
  
  
  • Safety equipment layouts
  
  
  • Hazardous-area classification drawings
  
  
  • Escape-route and lifesaving-equipment layouts
  
  
  • Safety-critical equipment and performance standards
  
  
  
  


• Provide technical safety input to plot plans, equipment layouts, process design, piping, electrical, instrumentation, telecom, HVAC, and structural engineering.


• Review PFDs, P&IDs, cause-and-effect diagrams, shutdown philosophies, control narratives, and equipment specifications from a safety perspective.


• Lead and coordinate Technical Safety Engineers, specialist consultants, subcontractors, and safety-study facilitators.


• Review vendor documentation and ensure safety requirements are incorporated into packaged equipment and purchased systems.


• Act as the primary technical safety focal point with the client, classification authorities, certification bodies, and other project stakeholders.


• Ensure compliance with UAE regulations, client specifications, project requirements, international codes, and applicable ADNOC engineering standards.


• Participate in design reviews, model reviews, constructability reviews, technical audits, risk assessments, and management-of-change activities.


• Support construction and commissioning teams in resolving technical safety queries, deviations, punch items, and field-design changes.


• Monitor technical safety deliverables, engineering hours, schedule, priorities, and reporting.


• Ensure technical safety documentation is complete and approved for project handover.