Senior Process Safety Engineer

Company: Rivan
Apply for the Senior Process Safety Engineer
Location: London
Job Description:

Do you want to work on the end-to-end design of one the most innovative process systems on Earth, where you deploy 1 system a week, not 1 system a decade like most incumbents?

Rivan Industries is a synthetic fuel company decarbonising heavy industry.We’re making synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels, sustaining life on earth by keeping the CO 2 locked underground. Here’s our entire business plan.

There is no boilerplate engineering in this system, only the most innovative, problem solving engineers can thrive on this challenge. We practice our culture, working in small teams, expecting complete ownership and ground up reasoning from our engineers, whilst executing at speed.

We operate with minimal process and bureaucracy, only what is essential to ensure our systems are safe, legally compliant, and deployed on time, everything else is up to you.

The role

Own the holistic implementation of process safety across our system

The role encompasses the full development cycle, across our whole system, but can be tailored to the specialist skillset of the applicant. We need you to:

  • Guide process safety through intelligent inherently safe system architecture selection
  • Ideate novel designs to eliminate or mitigate existing failure modes
  • Own critical process safety design aspects, such as relief design and DSEAR compliance
  • Lead our system through critical safety reviews, such as HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA and SIF specification

Core skills

5+ years professional experience

Bachelor’s or Masters in chemical engineering or related field

Experience designing, building and operating process plants

Experience leading full lifecycle process safety

Ideating novel architectures and system integrations with the Rivan mindset

Aspen modelling of process units

Data analysis and system wide process optimisation

Detailed process calculations and design

Component specification and procurement

Defining and executing build, deployment, commissioning and operation of our systems

Specifics

  • £70-100k Salary depending on experience
  • Significant share options as part of the early team
  • In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South London – flexibility considered based on personal circumstances
  • Extensive relocation support, including £6000 per year extra to live close to our HQ
  • Health insurance
  • Unlimited time-off

We encourage exceptional applicants from all backgrounds, even if they do not meet all the requirements listed.

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Posted: August 24th, 2026