Pipeline Process Safety Engineer

General Description:

The Pipeline Process Safety (PSM) Engineer will assist with risk engineering, PHMSA, and PSM programs. This role will also be responsible for developing and performing pipeline safety studies. This position will be based in downtown Houston, TX onsite with expected to travel to pipeline sites as required.

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:

- 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 focus on pipeline/midstream process safety.

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 tecniques, including facility sitiing 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.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $130,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year

Education:

- Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

- developing pipeline safety management systems: 7 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

- Houston, TX 77002 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Houston, TX 77002: Relocate with an employer provided relocation package (Required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (Required)

Work Location: In person