Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Process Safety Engineer to support complex energy and industrial projects across our Projects Canada portfolio.

This role will contribute across the full project lifecycle, including conceptual studies, FEED, and detailed engineering. The successful candidate will provide technical safety leadership, ensuring that process safety, fire protection, and risk management principles are embedded into design and execution.

We are seeking experienced professionals with strong technical expertise, stakeholder engagement capabilities, and the ability to influence safe and compliant project outcomes across multidisciplinary teams.

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The Role

The Senior Process Safety Engineer will act as a subject matter expert in process safety and fire protection, supporting multiple projects and clients. You will lead hazard identification and risk assessment activities, develop safety design philosophies, and ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards.

This role requires a combination of technical depth, leadership in safety studies, and the ability to guide engineering teams and clients in implementing effective risk mitigation strategies.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood’s Projects Canada business delivers engineering, procurement, and project services across energy, petrochemical, and industrial sectors. Our teams execute complex, multi-phase projects spanning upstream, midstream, downstream, and energy transition developments, with a strong focus on safety, regulatory compliance, and technical excellence.

What We Can Offer

Opportunity to lead process safety on major Canadian projects

Hybrid working arrangements

Competitive compensation with regular market reviews

Flexible benefits package

Exposure to a wide range of industries including energy transition

Collaborative and multidisciplinary project environment

A culture committed to safety, innovation, and technical excellence

• Strong understanding of fire protection codes and standards such as NFPA, APIs etc.
• Perform fire and hazard assessments of facilities.
• Develop fire protection philosophies and safety in design criteria.
• Firewater design- fire water demand, FW network including FW pumps and storage tanks.
• Fundamental understanding of special fire protection systems- deluge/water spray, foam, clean agents etc.
• Execute MOC jobs in tight timelines and budgets.
• Develop fire and safety equipment layout.
• Develop SOW/TOR for various safety studies e.g facility siting. PHAs, consequence modeling etc.
• Provide input to fire and gas detection layouts.
• Provide input to hazardous area classification.
• Provide input to layout and facility siting.
• Provide input to fireproofing.
• Participate in model reviews. Provide guidance on human factors and egress.
• Conduct PHA sessions (HAZID, What-IF, HAZOP, LOPA, SIL).
• Manage the closure of risk actions/recommendations generated from PHA.
• Perform consequence analysis and dispersion modelling.
• Collaboration with other engineering disciplines.
• Coordination and Interface with Clients.
• Complete conceptual studies through to detail engineering stages.

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome experienced professionals to consider joining our team.

Expected:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Registered or eligible for registration with APEGA
• Minimum 10 years of process safety engineering experience
• Strong experience in midstream and downstream projects
• Strong knowledge of fire protection codes and standards (e.g., NFPA, API)
• Experience leading and facilitating PHA studies (HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, SIL)
• Strong understanding of process engineering fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities across projects and teams

  Legally authorized to work in Canada

  Desirable:

• Experience in firewater system design
• Experience in consequence analysis and dispersion modeling (e.g., PHAST)
• Experience in facility siting and hazardous area classification
• Experience reviewing engineering deliverables across full project lifecycl
• Experience supporting oil sands or large-scale industrial projects

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 45 countries, employing around 25,000 people. www.woodplc.com
Diversity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.