Senior Consultant

ERM is looking for a motivated Senior Technical Risk / Process Safety Consultant to join its Safety Service team in Johannesburg, South Africa.

**Responsibilities**:
As a Senior Consultant joining our team, your key focus will be to support the successful delivery of ERM projects. Technically, the consultant should have experience in some or all of the following areas, for example:

- Process Safety auditing (due diligence, compliance, verification).
- Process Safety management, compliance programme development and implementation.
- Facilitation of Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOPs).
- Facilitation and Compilation of Bow Tie’s and reports utilizing Bowtie XP or similar.
- Risk Assessments (Baseline; FMECA; Issue based; SIL; FTA’s; Haz-ids; LOPA’s; Fire Risk Reviews etc. on a range of industrial operations such as Mining, Power, Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverage etc.)
- A knowledge of Behavioral and Human Factors safety concepts.
- Understanding of South African and the wider African H&S legal requirements.
- Risk data management and analysis.
- Experience in resource efficiency and optimization on a range of different types of industrial sites
- Working knowledge of climate change services (carbon foot printing, life cycle assessments, climate risk, etc.)

As a Senior Consultant within the team, you will be responsible for:

- Managing or coordinating medium to large size projects or whole elements of larger multidisciplinary or global projects - as ERM works closely with some of the world’s largest organizations, we anticipate that this role will require close collaboration with our European and other global Safety & Risk teams as well as across our offices in Africa.
- Delivering multiple project tasks or components of projects,
- Supervising project team(s) and coaching and mentoring more junior staff.
- Understanding the interrelationships between ERM services and policies and how these are applied within the clients’ business model.
- Establishing strong working relationships with clients through project delivery.
- Developing and growing the Safety & Risk services in South Africa and Africa.
- Client liaison, detailed proposal preparation and review, project execution and management.
- Client training and technical assistance and
- Adhering to ERM Southern Africa’s and Global Risk’s policies and procedures.

You will be part of our interdisciplinary and international team and will collaborate with ERM offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Travel within South Africa, Southern Africa and on occasion to global destinations will be required to fulfil some of the above requirements.

**Requirements**:

- Engineering Degree, ideally in the field of Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering or Mechanical Engineering; Fire risk / engineering or related qualifications will be beneficial.
- Experience in all aspects of Process Safety, including QRA’s, HAZOPs, Behavioral safety and Human Factors programmes, risk management concepts including baseline risk assessments, risk control strategies task risk and continuous risk management
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in Process Safety/Technical Risk/ Fire Risk fields after your academic qualification
- At least 4 years of this experience should be in a tech risk PSM related consulting environment with a proven track record.
- Experience in aspects of resource efficiency and climate change
- Commercial acumen, business development and project management skills
- Excellent leadership and communication (both verbal and written) skills
- Experience with using data and technology to support clients with Safety solutions
- Willingness to travel
- Ability to work under pressure