Safety Engineer

Safety EngineerMontreal, QCContract: 6 monthsIntroductionBrunel is looking for a Safety Engineer to join our renewable energy client and be a key player in establishing/ramping up new factories and contribute to building large scale battery factories.ResponsibilitiesBe on the front lines of development of comprehensive technical safety management system.Identify early areas of risk in factory planning and recommend robust mitigation strategies. Define physical and health hazards of all proposed hazardous materials site-wide. Recommend and track risk reduction factors through project lifecycle consistent with hazard characteristics. Conduct formal risk assessments for greenfield and brownfield engineering projects.Gathers and develops a deep understanding of stakeholder requirements needed to identify potential hazards and operability issues in early factory and manufacturing process development. Leads technical deep dives and options analysis with respect to health, safety and environmental protection. Lead efforts for modelling scenarios and working with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct modelling such as CFD, FDS, PHAST, Canary, ASPEN, ALOHA, and other risk modelling tools as needed.Conduct Hazardous Area Classifications. Update drawings with relevant information.Define and effectively communicate design safety standards and expectations for internal and external engineering teams.Participate in equipment and mechanical safety review process. Ensure manufacturing and process equipment meets internal safety standards in addition to CE, CSA, UL or other safety directives. Facilitate and execute high-quality risk assessments, HAZIDs, HAZOPs, PHAs, LOPAs, SIL, etc. and deliver actionable recommendations to multidisciplinary engineering teams.Ensure continuous compliance with Sevese or Process Safety Management Directives for new factory programs.Develop and implement engineering safety and hazard mitigation design strategies and solutions to identified risks and gaps.Support CE or CSA certification of custom manufacturing and process systems.Passionately ensure safety factors and risk reduction methods are satisfactorily implemented in all systems in accordance with ALARPSupport value engineering exercises and advocate for safety systems. Prepare documentation for authorities and ensure work products meet the applicable directives, standards and laws. Develop and assist with execution of Pre-Startup Safety Review checklists.Participate in milestone-driven safety buyoffs of mechanical and process equipment in factory setting.Partner with production operations and manufacturing engineers to drive process safety improvements and conduct incident investigations in support of continuous improvement mindset.Perform process safety reviews and approvals as part of the Management of Change (MOC) process. Participate in process safety audits and investigations.Collaborate with applicable Process Safety networks (internal and external) to maintain safety leadership and share best practices. Establish a process safety dashboard.RequirementsB.S. in Process/Chemical/Mechanical/Safety Engineering or equivalentExperience working with multi-disciplinary teams within MEP/CSA+ teams to identify and implement PSM engineering requirements. English written and oral skills, Swedish is a plus.Full understanding of core engineering disciplines and ability to demonstrate skills to manage and facilitate engineering resources. Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to convey technical information to nontechnical audiences.HAZID/PHA/HAZOP/What-if facilitation or technical evaluation experience highly desired.Dispersion analysis, flammability analysis, consequence modelling, combustible dust hazards, reactive hazard analyses & evaluation, is a plus.P. Eng license is a plus.Experience designing lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities, chemical process, semiconductor, or similar industries is considered an assetFluency in other languages (Japanese, Swedish, Chinese, French) is considered an asset.Experience from a multi-cultural environmentWhat We OfferWhy work with Brunel? We are proud to offer exciting career opportunities from over 100 offices globally in 42 countries. Advancing your career takes time and effort – let us match you to your ideal position.About UsBrunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 45 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.