Senior Engineer-Safety (EM)

• Own and maintain the Explosive Safety Management System specific to formulation & synthesis processes.
• Approve, review and sign off on laboratory and production safety cases, site plans, and process hazard analyses for energetic formulations and synthesis routes.
• Authorize and enforce safe handling, storage, segregation, transport, and staging of precursors, intermediates and finished energetic materials.
• Lead hazard identification, process hazard analyses (PHA), HAZOPs, dust/explosive atmosphere assessments and energetic specific risk assessments for scale up activities.
• Establish and validate safe operating limits, change control for formulations or processes, and safe batch size or scale rules from lab to pilot to production.
• Develop and deliver targeted training and competence programs for chemists, process engineers, technicians and contractors.
• Lead incident investigation and root cause analysis for any safety events; implement corrective actions and lessons learned across R&D and production.
• Maintain licensing, permits and technical documentation required by national or regional regulators and internal governance.
• Provide real time safety support for experiments, pilot trials and production activities; participate in design reviews for equipment and facility layout.
• Implement emergency response and evacuation plans specific to energetic material scenarios and coordinate drills.
• Advise procurement on safety specifications for mixers, reactors, solvent handling, ventilation, instrumentation, and storage vessels.
• Support security and access control measures for sensitive materials and areas.
• Interface with QA or QC to ensure safety considerations are integrated into sampling, testing and characterization procedures.
• Collaborate with Environmental & Occupational Health to control emissions, effluents and occupational exposures.
• Support regulatory inspections and third party audits; coordinate corrective action plans.
• Maintain an up to date repository of standards, best practices and lessons learned applicable to energetic materials

• Minimum 8 years of experience in energetic materials safety, or munitions safety; experience across both R&D and production environments strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting formulation and synthesis teams.
• Prior work in defense, aerospace, chemical manufacturing, or regulated energetic materials labs is highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Safety Engineering, Explosives Engineering, or related discipline.
• Master's degree or advanced safety qualifications preferred.
• Strong grounding in safety engineering principles (process, occupational, or system safety)
• Deep knowledge of standards like OSHA, ISO (e.g., ISO 45001)
• Experience with hazard analysis methods
• Understanding of risk assessment frameworks and mitigation strategies
• Familiarity with safety systems, controls, and fail-safe design

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