Comah Process Safety Specialist

**COMAH Process Safety Specialist - St Fergus - £51,529 to £63,000**:
National Gas is securing Britain’s energy. We transport gas throughout Great Britain, repair and maintain gas pipelines, and manage the meters that allow millions of homes and businesses to access the energy they need. We are the national gas network, providing secure energy to power Britain, achieve net zero, and maintain our industrial competitiveness.

Our gas Terminals are fundamental to the United Kingdom economy and energy demands. We take pride in ensuring the safe, efficient, reliable, and flexible supply of natural gas from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and Norway, providing key interfaces between UK / EU gas supplies.

Join us, and help be the energy behind the change.

**About the role**:
Are you someone who likes to take ownership and make decisions that move things forward? We are the workplace that gives you the flexibility to make that happen.

As the COMAH Process Safety Specialist for the St Fergus, using your expertise, you will support the terminal to continuously ensure a high performing, safe, secure and environmentally aware culture. Reporting to the North Sea Terminals Compliance Manager, you will be a self-starter with a desire for knowledge & development.

Being an upper tier COMAH site means we must ensure compliance the COMAH regulations at all times in addition to accurate reporting requirements around compliance data and regulatory reporting.

In this role and working on an upper tier COMAH site, you will plan, prepare and conduct regular assurance reviews to ensure high safety standards and report back findings with suggested areas for improvement and what good internal and external practices look like.

You will ensure that the emergency, security, safety, operational and environmental plans are procedures are developed, authorised, reviewed and tested on a regular basis is key. As part of this, you will undertake incident investigations to determine route causes and subsequent actions to mitigate as necessary.

You will participate in the development and production of Formal Process Safety Assessments including HAZOP, HAZID, HAZCON workshops, and Job Specific Risk Assessments

As we continue on our upgrade journey, you will support the construction and commissioning of new assets at the terminal in accordance with agreed policies & quality standards.

**What we are looking for**:
To be successful in this role you will of course have a good understanding of COMAH legislative requirements with experience of working in high safety environments. It would be advantageous (not required) to have an understanding of the operation and maintenance of a gas terminal.

You will have knowledge and experience of the permit to work systems, risk assessment and method statement requirements. In your career you will have developed strong leadership, influencing, customer orientation and communication skills, providing the ability to collaborate effectively within the team.

**What we can offer you**:

- Annual bonus of 6% based on personal and company performance
- 26 days’ holiday plus statutory holidays - option available to buy extra or sell days
- Generous double-match pension scheme - for every £1 you put in, we'll add £2 (max company contribution 12%)
- Flexible benefit scheme, including private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans and more
- Overtime at x1.5 normal and then x2 on Sunday
- Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you're unable to work due to long term illness or injury
- Excellent family friendly provisions - maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
- Career progression, professional training and development - including access to LinkedIn Learning
- Annual Technical Training budget of circa £1800 rising to £2500 in our next regulatory period
- Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling 24/7
- Financial support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions

**About us**:
National Gas is securing Britain’s energy. Gas is an essential part of a secure energy supply in Britain, and will continue to play a vital role for decades to come. More than ever, we need the security that gas brings to keep the lights on, businesses running, and to protect jobs. National Gas provides that security.

National Gas is responsible for transporting gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, more than 500,000 businesses, and 23 million homes through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Britain.

National Gas is also proud to lead the way in transforming the energy network for a net zero future. Gas provides the energy security to support renewable electricity generation, and we are developing our infrastructure to transport hydrogen and carbon dioxide across the country.

At National Gas, we are disability confident and we are signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant, committed to buildi