Current Job Openings
Process Safety Engineer
Allentown, PA or Pasadena, TX
- Direct Hire
- Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental
- Schedule: 40 hours/week
The Process Safety team ensures safe operation of all assets across the region, including process plants, pipeline networks, customer installations and fleet equipment. Operating assets cover various technologies, including air separation (cryogenic and noncryogenic), hydrogen/CO/syngas production, liquid CO2 production, and hydrogen for mobility.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Lead and/or facilitate Process Safety Assessments, including Process Hazard Analyses for projects and operating facilities to identify hazards, ensure adequate safeguards exist and recommend additional safeguards as required.
- Conduct specialized risk and consequence studies, including quantified risk analysis and dispersion modeling, in conjunction with the Central Process Safety Team, for company risk assessment or regulatory requirements.
- Lead or participate in the root cause analysis and accident investigation for incidents.
- Provide process safety consulting, review, and approval to support plant Management of Change (MOC) and Mechanical Integrity extensions to ensure good engineering design and compliance with Client standards and policies.
- Administer the global safety retrofit program by providing prioritization, technical guidance, and design details to meet the intended risk reduction
- Participate in the development of global process safety standards, tools, programs, training courses, and work processes.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement efforts to drive process safety performance.
- Assist in interpretation of national and local process safety regulatory/code requirements for the region where the plant is installed. Provide documentation for regulatory filings.
- Peer review process safety calculations, consequence modeling, and analyses completed by others
- Travel to site in support of process safety assessments - typical travel would be 10-20%
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering strongly preferred; other subject areas will be considered based on experience.
- Minor in Process Safety a plus.
- 5-20 years work experience in industrial gas, oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical or related industries in a process safety, process engineering or plant engineering role.
- Prior knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM) strongly preferred.
- Experience and understanding of flowsheets (P&ID's), safety relief demand scenarios, and basic function of unit operations.
- Experience with consequence modeling (PHAST), risk quantification (LOPA) and hazard review documentation (PHAWorks) is a plus.
- Experience with instrumentation, process controls, and electrical design is beneficial.
- Good leadership skills, good engineering problem-solving skills, good interpersonal and communication skills, and passion about the job mission.
EOE M/F/Disabled/Veteran
Allentown, PA
Process Safety Engineer
