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Role Specification Role title: Senior Safety & Environmental Design Engineer

Department: Engineering

Author: Tom Andrews

Date created/revised: 20th February 2024

Summary Company Overview Velocys is a leading technology solution provider playing a crucial part in the Energy Transition. There is an enormous global need for sustainable fuels, particularly for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), which is critical for decarbonising aviation. There is very little of it being produced today, and what there is comes from feedstocks such as used cooking oil which are limited in quantity. Velocys technology, combined with others, enables the production of SAF from a much broader range of waste carbon sources, including municipal solid waste, forestry and agricultural residues, and carbon dioxide (either from point sources or from the atmosphere) together with hydrogen from electrolysis. Velocys’ proprietary technology has been demonstrated at full commercial scale. Velocys’ competitive advantage comes not only from its technology but also from two decades of operational and engineering experience, together with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of developing SAF production capacity. This expertise is highly valuable to the Company’s customers who are developing such projects. Velocys is headquartered in the UK, with a strong presence in the US: an engineering and commercial centre in Houston, Texas and a manufacturing and technology centre in Columbus, Ohio. The team consists of subject matter experts and highly skilled professionals with backgrounds including oil and gas and pioneering renewable fuel sectors. With a focus on collaboration, individuals have the opportunity to develop their careers in an exciting, varied and fast paced environment.

An overview of the role within the Company Velocys continues to build upon its project delivery capabilities and is now seeking a talented individual to join the engineering centre of excellence in the UK, in this newly created role of Senior Safety & Environmental Design Engineer. The role will work in a small, multidiscipline and globally spread team, engaging and influencing numerous external clients, contractors and elements of the supply chain. The main focuses of the role include providing support to the Project Design Package (PDP), Front End Engineering Development (FEED) and demonstration plant deployment, leading the

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incorporation of technical safety and environmental and sustainability requirements. A key area of the role will involve the provision of expertise and risk-based approaches to integrating Inherently Safer Design, HAZID, HAZOP and other processes and their follow-up. The Technical Safety Lead will be responsible for leading environmental considerations throughout the project lifecycle, minimising negative impacts, and driving sustainability in design. A key part of the role will be in taking a risk-based approach to developing solutions around developing legislation, leveraging requirements from a number of industries to integrate a solution for some of the first SAF projects, and enabling the regulatory pathway through significant stakeholder engagement and confidence-building. The successful candidate will possess significant practical experience of the full spectrum of tasks associated with values focused project shaping, safe execution of project delivery, and safe and reliable operations, and ready to apply this to support the development of the reference projects and other prospects. The role of Technical Safety Lead will be based at our Oxford, UK HQ with regular working at our engineering contractors’ offices (currently West London). Some business-related travel, to include international travel, should be expected. The role will report to the UK Engineering Manager. The Engineering team is expected to grow as the global market develops.

Responsibilities • Ensures delivery of technical safety and environmental and sustainability throughout the

project lifecycle • Support PDP development, pilot plant design and fabrication, and ongoing front end project

development, ensuring the integration of relevant safety and environmental principles • Drive technical safety and sustainability initiatives within the projects and towards project

execution, Commissioning and handover to Operations • Provide steer and input to technical safety studies • Lead the preparation of Safety Cases and other technical safety and environmental

mechanisms to enable and ensure compliance for projects in the Energy Transition • Act as the focal point for engagement with regulatory and permitting and consents

stakeholders to demonstrate the projects’ credentials and de-risk the schedule to delivering SAF products

• Reviews specifications, drawings, and vendor equipment documentation from both within the discipline as well as from other disciplines for compliance with project requirements and actively seeks resolution

• Review Material Safety Diagrams, Design Temperature and Design Pressure diagrams, Material Safety Data Sheets, relief and disposal philosophy, relief and flare load summaries, and relief valve scenarios and specifications

• Ensures adherence to applicable regulations, codes and standards • Collaborate in management and coordination of activities among all project functions and

engineering disciplines in accordance with the established project baseline documents • Provide technical expertise and guidance on safety and environmental related issues across

the organisation • Other related duties/functions as assigned

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Organisational interactions • Immediate supervisor: UK Engineering Manager • Next level supervisor: VP Engineering • Other internal interactions

o Engineering team o Process Director o VP Waste to Fuels, VP New Projects o Contracts team o Business Development team

• External interactions o Engineering contractor and other technical services o Regulatory bodies and stakeholders in permitting and consents o Licensors and Supply Chain o Customers and prospects o Strategic partners

Education and experience • Highest ethical and professional standards • Accredited Degree in a relevant Engineering discipline – chemical, or mechanical preferred • Professional membership of a recognised engineering body • Technical Safety and Environmental leadership in a complex multidiscipline technical

environment, preferably as a client and a contractor • Experience of effectively engaging directly with regulatory and other key external

stakeholders • Thorough knowledge of HIPS, LOPA, SIS, SIL, and layers of protection • Thorough knowledge of UK legislation, sound working knowledge of other jurisdictions (e.g.

EU, USA) and industry standards / best practices • Demonstrable ability to frame and communicate risk-based technical safety and

environmental solutions • Demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate on all

levels • Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and deliver to deadlines • Demonstrated commitment to environmental sustainability • An understanding of markets associated with the Energy Transition is highly desirable (e.g.

sustainable fuels, environmental credit markets, hydrogen) • Ability to embrace and adapt to uncertainty and change • High level of initiative and energy

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