CareerPlan

Safety Engineer

Camperdown, New South WalesFull-time2026-09-16 → 2026-10-22

Core

Lead technical safety across manufacturing, workshop, laboratory, R&D, and deployment environments with a focus on chemical, process, electrical, and mechanical risk.

Role type

Senior Safety Engineer (Process & Industrial)

Builds

Scalable technical safety tools, standards, and design assurance processes for field trials and future deployments.

Domain

Clean chemicals, green fertilizers, heavy industry decarbonization

Required skills

Hazard identification and risk assessment, HAZOP/FMEA/What-If facilitation, incident investigation and root cause analysis, engineering design review, WHS legislation interpretation, Management of Change processes, high-voltage and pressure system safety, chemical handling safety

Preferred skills

Chartered Professional Engineer status, process safety management, functional safety, machine safety, nitric acid and fertilizer processing experience

Technologies

Plasma reactors, P&IDs, control philosophies, emergency shutdown systems

Responsibilities

Lead structured hazard and design reviews, develop engineering requirements for safety controls, embed safety into the full lifecycle from design to decommissioning, partner with engineers to develop inherently safer solutions, report critical risks to the COO

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC