Process Safety Engineer - Pipelines

Job Description

• Provide technical and engineering leadership on all process safety management elements such as MOC, PSSR, PHA, building siting, process design.
• Provide process safety and engineering guidance to communicate and evaluate process safety risks.
• Ability to recommend and implement process safety improvement opportunities by staying abreast of industry trends and technology.
• Day to day guidance of Process Safety Barrier Health reporting.
• Responsible for management/leadership on PHA/LOPA teams, including review and approval of associated action items.
• Responsible for leadership in process safety event (PSE) investigations.
• Assist in developing and delivering training programs, keeping them updated in accordance with changes in technology and industry best practices.
• Responsible for driving technical processes to communicate overall operational risk. These processes include:
• Car sealing
• Operating Procedures – initial start-up and SOP and red line revisions
• Process Safety Event Reporting and Investigation
• 5-why or root cause analysis (RCA)
• Permit to Work Compliance
• SIMOPs Tracking and Assurance
• Inhibits / Bypasses Tracking and Compliance
• Safety Critical Element management
• Pre-startup Safety Review Participation and Compliance
• Monitoring process safety metrics and analyzing data to identify trends and outliers and to make recommendations as needed.
• Participate in Pre-Start-Up / Readiness Reviews for major equipment commissioning activities.
• Risk assessment and Go-no-Go participation.
• Ability to interface with Contractor CSU team, engineering, and operations departments.
• Ability to influence the culture of process safety. Qualifications:
  
  Education and Certifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Chemical/Process or Mechanical Engineering. Based on experience, other Engineering disciplines will be considered.
  • 7-15 years of experience with preference in oil and gas, pipelines.
  Skills: 
  • Experience in design, implementation and management of safety systems and processes.
  • Expertise in pipeline safety studies including high consequence area (HCA) analyses and risk assessments.
  • Good understanding of industry safety needs, trends and economic landscape. 
  • Knowledge of PHMSA and requirements to maintain compliance.
  • Experience applying risk management tools and techniques, including facility siting studies (FSS) and quantitative risk analysis (QRA). 
  • Experience facilitating Process Hazard Analyses and Layers of Protection Analyses.
  • Experience developing and auditing Pipeline Safety Management System programs and integrity management plans (IMP) in accordance with API RP 1173 and 49 CFR Part 192.
  • Asks targeted questions to ensure that the right solutions are discussed and implemented.
  • Clear communicator – ability to provide clear guidance and expectations.
  • Ability to communicate the process safety message in a respectful manner, taking into consideration ideas from others.
   
   

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