Senior Safety and Loss Prevention Engineer (S)
Key Skills
Job Description
Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.
About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.
Purpose
- As Senior Safety & Loss Prevention Engineer, you safeguard SBM FPSO and Turret designs by ensuring major hazard risks are identified, assessed, and controlled throughout the project lifecycle, from concept to commissioning and operations support. The role provides technical leadership on safety-in-design, translating regulatory, class and client requirements into practical design solutions and ensuring timely closure of safety actions to deliver safe, compliant and operable facilities.
Responsibilities
- You lead and/or coordinate the Safety & Loss Prevention (SLP) scope on FPSO projects during FEED, EPCI and brownfield phases, ensuring inherently safer design principles are consistently applied.
- You plan, facilitate and close out risk reviews and safety workshops such as HAZID, HAZOP and SIL, including action tracking and verification of timely closure.
- You define, prepare and review key SLP documentation such as safety concepts, safety plans, fire control plans, hazardous area classification deliverables and safety layouts.
- You specify, engineer and verify fire and explosion risk control measures, including active and passive fire protection systems and their integration into the overall design.
- You manage and technically challenge third-party safety studies (e.g. Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment and QRA), controlling scope, schedule, quality and integration of outcomes into project decisions.
- You provide functional safety input where required, ensuring safety requirements are properly captured, implemented and monitored through change control.
- You interface with clients, class societies, yards and vendors on safety-related topics and support site activities such as 3D model reviews, redlining, as-built verification and resolution of safety punch items.
- You apply recognized SLP and process safety tools and mentor colleagues to continuously improve safety performance and engineering quality across projects.
Education
- Engineering degree at BSc or MSc level (e.g. Chemical, Mechanical, Process or Safety Engineering) or equivalent technical qualification.
Experience
- 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in Safety & Loss Prevention engineering, preferably within offshore oil and gas projects (FPSO, FLNG or similar facilities), across FEED and EPCI phases.
- Practical experience with safety loss prevention and process safety methods and software such as HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, PHAST, Flaresim, Pipenet, Vessfire, BowTie, CFD tools or equivalent.
- Strong team spirit with clear, structured communication skills in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.
- Ability to interface effectively with clients, class societies, shipyards, vendors and third-party consultants.
- Autonomous and pragmatic, with a constructive mindset and sound engineering judgement.
- Strong analytical skills, capable of translating risk assessments into practical design solutions.
- Proactive, curious and motivated to improve safety-by-design practices and share knowledge within the team.
Functional Competencies
GENERAL INFORMATION
SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.
SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Core Responsibilities
The Senior Safety and Loss Prevention Engineer leads safety-in-design efforts for FPSO projects, ensuring major hazard risks are identified and mitigated throughout the project lifecycle. This role involves coordinating risk workshops, managing safety documentation, and interfacing with clients and vendors to ensure compliant and operable facilities.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a BSc or MSc in Engineering and possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in safety and loss prevention within the offshore oil and gas industry. Proficiency in safety methods and software such as HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, and PHAST is essential for this technical leadership position.
About SBM Offshore
Industry: Oil and Gas
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Through the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, we play a pivotal role in a just transition. By advancing our core, we deliver cleaner, more efficient energy production. By pioneering more, we unlock new markets within the blue economy. More than 7,800 SBMers collaborate worldwide to deliver innovative solutions as a responsible partner towards a sustainable future, balancing ocean protection with progress