Safety, Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

As we transition towards executing our industrial demo plant, we are navigating developing a chemical process that requires robust process safety, structured discipline, precise control loops, and ATEX compliance. You will serve as our internal owner and technical challenger for process safety concepts, control philosophies, instrumentation specifications, and automation architectures.

What you'll do

• Draft, review, and release complete P&IDs, control topologies, cause-and-effect interlock matrices, and alarm philosophies across process options
• Specify field instrumentation compatible with solvents, oxidants, and acidic media
• Establish PLC/DCS control system architecture, hardware requirements, and communication protocols for skid-mounted modules
• Lead formal HAZOP, LOPA, and SIL assessment studies alongside external advisors and FEED suppliers
• Establish ATEX zoning classifications, specify explosion-proof electrical and instrument equipment, and prepare technical safety dossiers for local German regulatory approvals
• Design safety instrumented systems and emergency shutdown logic for exothermic reactions, hydrogen peroxide dosing loops, and flammable vapour spaces
• Lead safety, instrumentation, and control interactions with specialised engineering suppliers through conceptual design, basic design, detailed engineering, and construction
• Design and maintain campaign data infrastructure, including batch records, historian/DAQ structure, alarm/event logs, sample timestamps, control recipes, and partner campaign data packages

What you'll need

• 3–5+ years of hands-on working experience drafting and verifying P&IDs, specifying instrumentation, and designing control philosophies, cause-and-effect matrices, and safety interlocks for chemical process plants
• Demonstrated experience executing HAZOP/LOPA studies, ATEX zoning (Directives 2014/34/EU and 1999/92/EC), Seveso III compliance, and managing energetic or solvent reactions (peroxides, flammable solvents)
• Proven track record generating basic design control documentation and managing modular skid fabricators through detail design, FAT, and SAT
• Ability to collect data and model it using tools to draw FEED conclusions, establish dynamic models, and link experiments to reproducible results
• Professional German proficiency (C1+, strictly required to lead HAZOPs, liaise with German regulatory authorities like TÜV/Bezirksregierung, and negotiate with local EPCs and fabricators) and fluent English
• High agency, first-principles thinking, and practical engineering judgment; comfortable troubleshooting sensors, control valves, or wiring on pilot rigs

Nice to have

• Experience building batch records, DAQ structures, or campaign data packages
• Degree in a relevant engineering field with a process safety specialisation
• Practical familiarity with Pressure Equipment Directive (PED 2014/68/EU) and SIL ratings (IEC 61508/61511)

What they offer

• Hands-on engineering work with direct impact on industrial demo plant execution
• Leadership of process safety, control, and instrumentation across conceptual through operational phases
• Opportunity to define next generation of industrial manufacturing
• Berlin-based position with core engineering team