Process Safety & Barrier Management Engineer (VIE) – Congo

About the role

TotalEnergies EP Congo is looking for a Process Safety & Barrier Management Engineer (M/F) for its Asset Integrity & Major Risks department in Pointe-Noire, reporting to the Senior Safety Engineer. This is a 12-month VIE (voluntary international exchange) placement, working across several operated assets to deploy critical safety barrier management and support improvements in barrier performance monitoring.

Key responsibilities

• Identify documents, data and stakeholders related to critical barriers
• Consolidate major scenarios and verify their traceability within risk studies
• Structure critical barrier registers for each asset and map links between scenarios, barriers, equipment and performance standards
• Reconcile technical data with SAP/CMIMS information and consolidate data on tests, failures, inhibitions and degraded situations
• Prepare indicators and develop the dashboard prototype
• Organize multidisciplinary reviews, prepare approval packages and monitor actions to completion
• Contribute to deploying the future digital critical barrier monitoring tool

Required profile

• Master's degree in Process Engineering, Industrial Safety or Risk Management; Industrial, Mechanical or Maintenance Engineering also accepted
• Initial experience or a significant internship in a high-risk industrial environment; exposure to the oil and gas industry is an advantage
• French C1 and English B2

Required skills

• Knowledge of process safety and major technological risk management principles
• Ability to work with risk studies, risk registers and Bowties
• Very good command of Excel and PowerPoint
• Power BI, SAP/CMIMS or Bowtie software knowledge is an advantage