Senior/ Staff Engineer, Process Safety Management

Responsibilities

• Support the adoption, implementation, and assurance of the PSM elements across the various site departments to ensure company best practices and procedures are understood, implemented and followed.
• Support and facilitate PHAs and other risk assessment processes.
• Identify and quantify Process Safety risks at the facility and measures for managing these risks.
• Ensure Process Safety risks are tracked, communicated, action plans are approved, and risks managed properly through the Process Safety Risk Register and Risk Action Plans (RAP).
• Maintain and update the Process Safety Risk Register.
• Provide technical leadership and support to identify hazards, evaluate the risk of those hazards, and assist in the development of effective solutions to mitigate risk.
• Develop and perform self-assessment for various PSM programs.
• Support and manage the Incident Management Process and Incident Investigations associated with identified Process Safety Events (PSEs).
• Develop, monitor, and analyze trends in site PSM Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Support the MOC Process to ensure risks are properly identified and managed for changes and PHAs and PSSRs are adequate.
• Support the Bypass Override Risk Assessment (BORA) process as required.
• Mentor others in process safety to understand, identify and reduce process safety risk.
• Support the site in identifying and sustaining the management of key Process Safety Information (PSI).
• Support the development of PSM software tools.
• Perform Building Siting reviews to evaluate occupied and non-occupied buildings and support Building Siting program at site.

Qualifications

• Possesses a thorough understanding of OSHA PSM, Responsible Care, and EPA – RMP regulations.
• Understands and can apply API Process Safety Performance Indicators, Management of Hazards associated with Process Plant Buildings and Process Safety Risks at a facility.
• Understands natural gas liquefaction, LNG transportation, operations, storage, and loading.
• Familiar with the various applicable federal, state, and local agencies and applicable laws, regulations, codes, standards, and permits required to operate LNG terminals, including but not limited to: DOT, OSHA, USCG, EPA, FERC, NFPA, and knowledge of emergency response operations, planning, techniques, and reporting.
• Strong leadership and administrative abilities are required.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Organized and able to manage multiple activities and programs timely and with a high degree of accuracy.
• Effective problem solving and analytical skills.
• Computer knowledge, including Microsoft Office Suite consisting of Word, Excel, SharePoint and PowerPoint.
• A thorough understanding of process safety and its application to facility assets, programs, and procedures.
• Experience and knowledge of process safety principles, methodologies, and tools.
• Able to understand and assess risks based on operating process plant changes and lead a team through a robust risk assessment of physical changes to an operating process plant (based on P&ID’s, ISO’s, Electrical Drawings, Cause and effects, Safe Operating Limits, Technical Drawings, Facility Siting, SDSs, Fire Hazard Analysis).
• Able to interpret consequence and QRA results and apply them to other activities.
• Able to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
• Adept in report writing for PSM and skilled in leading a diverse technical and operations team through complex process operations conversations.
• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is required; Chemical/Mechanical Engineering is preferred; A Professional Engineer (PE) license in good standing is preferred.
• Senior: Minimum of seven (7+) years of direct experience in Process Safety Management in LNG, oil, gas, chemical, or related industry.
• Staff: Minimum of ten (10+) years of direct experience in Process Safety Management in LNG, oil, gas, chemical, or related industry.