Senior Process Safety Specialist (SPIEQ or equivalent required)

📍 Geneva, Switzerland – On-site only

🗓 Start: No later than June 2026

🕒 Full-time | Temporary position

We are recruiting for a leading industrial player in the cosmetics / specialty chemicals sector, operating complex chemical production and industrialisation environments.

This is a senior-level Process Safety role for an expert capable of leading quantitative risk assessments and supporting industrial decision-making at site level.

Your Mission

You will act as the site reference for Process Safety, ensuring the robustness of the Process Safety Management System and supporting Production, Engineering, and Industrialisation teams during scale-up and plant operations.

This is not a general HSE role, it is a highly technical Process Safety position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and validate HAZOP, LOPA and quantitative risk assessments (QRA)

• Ensure compliance with ATEX, explosion risk and fire safety standards

• Support Management of Change (MOC) from a process safety standpoint

• Evaluate process risks during scale-up and industrialisation

• Maintain and update site risk portfolio

• Interface with regulatory authorities when required

• Drive continuous improvement of process safety culture

Mandatory Requirements

• Master’s degree in Process Safety / Industrial Risk / SPIEQ (or equivalent specialization)

• 5–10 years of experience in industrial chemical or fine chemicals environment

• Strong expertise in:

• Process hazard analysis (HAZOP / LOPA)

• ATEX & explosion risk

• Safety Instrumented Systems (SIL)

• Quantitative Risk Assessment

• Industrial fire and toxic release modelling

• Fluent French and professional English

Ideal Profile

• Experience in specialty chemicals, cosmetics, pharma or fine chemicals

• Comfortable challenging engineering designs

• Able to interact with Production, R&D and industrialisation teams

• Strong technical credibility

• Autonomous and structured

Why Join?

• High-impact role within a modern industrial site

• Exposure to complex chemical processes

• Strong technical ownership

• Long-term stability