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NES Fircroft

Senior Safety Engineer - Team Leader

On site

Edinburgh, United kingdom

£ 80,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

21-11-2025

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Skills

Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Assessment and Evaluation Analytical Thinking

Job Specifications

Role Description

The successful candidate will be part of an energetic, expanding team, and will be expected to work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues on multiple projects in a supportive, progressive environment. Our core company values of teamwork, empowerment, integrity and solutions provide our cultural framework and encourage problem solving, decision making, flexibility and responsibility.

Depending on level of experience, the role will help deliver and possibly lead technical safety projects nationally and internationally. These projects cover a wide range of facilities and plant, processes and operations.

Key Skills

Applicants should have a relevant science or engineering degree, and possess strong analytical thinking, numerical skills, written and verbal communication skills.

The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. Candidates are not expected to have experience in all fields, but broad experience or a specialism is expected in the following:

• Safety Cases, HSE MS, ALARP, SIMOPS

• Hazard identification, assessment and evaluation techniques including HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, Bowtie assessment, etc.

• Function safety including HAZOP, LOPA, FSA, FMECA, Fault Tree analysis

• Fire, explosion and toxic gas consequence and physical effects modelling using specialist software (e.g. PHAST, FRED)

• QRA and other technical safety studies (e.g. BRA, EERA, ESSA, FERA, Facility Siting Studies) using commercial software (e.g. SAFETI, SHEPHERD)

• Handling large-scale CFD projects using HPC and cloud computing

• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) studies

• DSEAR, ATEX and Hazardous Areas Classification

• Human Factors, safety culture

• Project planning and management

• Writing proposals and coordinating bids

We Offer

We have an established competence framework, with regular appraisals and a defined pathway for progression.

We offer a competitive package of salary and benefits is offered for permanent staff, including:

• 33 days’ annual leave (including public holidays);

• Flexible working;

• Company-wide, inclusive profit share scheme;

• Private medical insurance;

• Life insurance;

• Up to 7.5% contribution into a pension scheme;

• Payment of subscription fees for membership of one professional body.

About the Company

With over 90 years' combined experience of delivering workforce solutions to the global energy industry, NES Fircroft is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining, Automotive and Chemicals sectors worldwide. We provide tailored staffing solutions, sourced from a global talent pool by a dedicated, discipline specific team of consultants. We are a people focused business and have access to the best talent wherever it may be ... Know more