Process Safety Associate III

Audubon is seeking a Process Safety Associate III to join our team in Metairie, LA, providing consulting services in Process Safety, including Process Safety Management (PSM), for the oil and gas, petrochemical, and refining industries.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and lead Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) meetings, including HAZOP/LOPA studies, and produce high-quality preparation and reporting documentation.
• Provide information and advice to clients and project teams regarding Process Safety regulations.
• Analyze engineering documents to identify safety hazards and mitigate them.
• Travel and work at customers’ sites upon request, including field inspections as needed.
• Assist in business development and technical proposals for the Process Safety Group.
• Interact and communicate effectively with clients, subcontractors, vendors, and other consultants.
• Adhere to company quality standards and follow engineering checking and approval procedures.
• Comply with all company and client health, safety, security, and environmental (HSSE) standards as well as federal and local HSSE regulations.
• Provide PSM/RMP Compliance Auditing.
• Provide safety engineering advice for quantified risk assessments, assessment of safety instrumented systems, alarm management, preliminary risk assessment, Facility Siting, etc.
• Provide engineering design for Fire Protection Systems.
• Actively participate in company and client hazard identification and observation programs, and immediately report any unsafe acts, conditions, or incidents to your supervisor.
• Manage workload, budgets, and project resources, requesting assistance as necessary.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (required).
• Bachelor’s Degree from ABET Accredited Institution (preferred).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or Fire Protection & Safety Engineering (preferred).
• Professional Engineering Certification (preferred).
• Certificate of completion of HAZOP/LOPA Facilitator Training (required).
• 10+ years of industry experience, including leadership of at least 10 PHA studies (preferred).
• Experience with PHA Pro software (strongly preferred).
• Experience with ABS Leader software (a plus).
• Working knowledge of codes (API, etc.) and Process Safety Regulations (preferred).

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with others verbally and in writing, including public speaking to groups of up to 30 professionals.
• Ability to lead teams to make decisions or take actions to solve problems or reach goals.
• Ability to lead teams to find solutions for or proactively deal with work-related problems.
• Ability to provide instruction and clarification to team members.