Director - IChemE Safety Centre

To drive global process and wider systems safety forward by ensuring the IChemE Safety Centre is a world-leading source of expertise and support for partners, IChemE members and others on safety of process and complex systems across sectors – working in partnership with and providing complementary support to other leading sources and Centres.

The Director, IChemE Safety Centre, will be a highly credible, global leader in process and systems safety, with an entrepreneurial spirit and the commercial acumen to grow significantly the reach and impact of the ISC. The person will be a demonstrated leader, able to work globally with industry, academia and other organisations of all sizes and sectors, whilst developing a vision that is in concert with key stakeholders. Ultimately, the successful candidate will remain committed to the vision, mission and strategy of the IChemE and will maintain a real commitment and a personal passion to raising standards in process and systems safety across the board.

As a senior role in IChemE, the Director, IChemE Safety Centre has a key part to play in enabling the Institution to meet the ambitions set out in Strategy 28+ of “Engineering a sustainable world”. In particular, the ISC is crucial in enabling the IChemE to provide individual as well as corporate members with access to knowledge, training and skills development around process and systems safety and driving up standards in safety across the board.