Job Description

Process Safety Engineer - Midstream Experience

Location: Houston, TX region

Schedule: 5/40 schedule - all workdays at Client’s Offices (remote/hybrid schedule NOT AN OPTION)

Company: oil & gas company

Our Client is currently searching for a Process Safety Engineer who’ll sit within the Midstream Department and be responsible for assisting with risk engineering, PHMSA, and PSM programs. This role will also be responsible for developing and performing pipeline safety studies.

The selected individual will be tasked with traveling to pipeline sites up to 50% of the time where they may leave on a Monday and come back until Thursday/Friday.

Responsibilities:

• 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:

o Car sealing

o Operating Procedures – initial start-up and SOP and red line revisions

o Process Safety Event Reporting and Investigation

 5-why or root cause analysis (RCA)

o Permit to Work Compliance

o SIMOPs Tracking and Assurance

o Inhibits / Bypasses Tracking and Compliance

o Safety Critical Element management

o Pre-startup Safety Review Participation and Compliance

o 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Expertise in pipeline safety studies including high consequence area (HCA) analyses and risk assessments.
• Experience in design, implementation and management of safety systems and processes.
• 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.
• Good understanding of industry safety needs, trends and economic landscape.
• 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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