Site Process Safety Management Lead

Each site is responsible to identify, understand, and control the hazards inherent in its process. This is done to prevent serious process-related incidents which might affect plant personnel, off-site communities, the environment, or result in significant property loss or loss of business. It involves the application of systems and controls to chemical and manufacturing processes and is a part of everyone’s job. The Site PSM leader leads the site’s efforts to accomplish this responsibility via the PSM committee.

Responsibility   (R):

The Site PSM Lead serves as the chairperson of the Site PSM Committee, and is responsible for the following items:

Ensuring the overall site PSM program conforms to the IFF standards, and local, regional, and country regulations Ensure each site process is adequately reviewed and classified as either HPSR or BPSR Periodically reviewing the site’s PSM Manual for content per corporate and regulatory guidelines. Driving PSM culture improvements and ensuring broad participation and active involvement of all employees and operating areas in all elements of PSM. Coordinating PSM activites on multi-SBU sites , including dissemination of PSM related information and communications from the global PSM Competency Center ,  SBU Process Safety Technical Leads, and/or SBU SHE Manager. Authoring and revising Site PSM policies to comply with IFF standards, local, regional, and country regulations, and training site on those polices. Maintaining oversight for site PSM initial and refresher training programs Conducting/lead regular meetings of the site PSM committee to develop annual accountabilities and to develop programs to accomplish these accountabilities Maintaining a site database or other means to retain PSM committee documents, actions, issues, meeting minutes and accomplishments Maintaining Site PSM KPIs, tracking performance to these, and reporting these to the Site and PSM / EHS Corporate team. Leading the development and attainment of site annual PSM Critical Operating Tasks (COT’s)  Providing periodic review of site PSM performance (leading indicators ) with the Site Manager and Leadership Team Provides expertise and input to the line organization on proper scoring and classification of PSM related incidents Ensuring Continual improvement in the process safety system and performance. Providing technical support to PSM relevant capital improvements, including authoring basic data package development, conducting trials of new equipment, and overseeing right to operate (RTO) activities. Providing training and mentoring of PSM spoke leaders in overall process safety management and process safety auditing. Developing and applying a site level Management of Change- Personnel process involving changes to PSM Element leaders Participating in the SBU PSM Network including issuing periodic site summary reports and networking Help ensure the site is adequately prepared for a second party PSM audit or regulatory inspection of  process safety management procedures, compliance and documentation.

Accountability (A):

The PSM Lead  is accountable for the following items:

Receives guidance and direction from the Site Leadership Team and the Site Director of Operations.

Maintaining adequate site level PSM systems and procedures

Maintaining and reporting of Site PSM metrics to the Site and to the Corporate PSM team.

Representing the site on the SBU PSM Network and meeting actions/obligations generated from this group

Ensuring that relevant PSM related information and communications are distributed across the site to necessary personnel

Ensuring recommendations from 2nd party PSM audits are adequately communicated , tracked , closed and status periodically reported

Accountability to all employees and citizens potentially impacted by a failure in the process safety management system.

Consult (C):

The Site PSM Lead consults with the following persons on key decisions regarding the PSM program and its performance:

The site leadership team and the plant manager

The SBU PSM Network and SBU PSM Technical Leader (PSTL)

The SBU SHE Manager

All site PSM Element Leaders

The Global PSM Competency Leader depending on the issue involved

Potentially, all site personnel, depending on the issue involved. 

Others experts or resources with functional knowledge on issues to be resolved.

External contacts ( local industry peers, community contacts, CAP’s, LEPC’s )

Inform (I):

The Site PSM Lead informs the following people of the status and conditions of the process safety management program:

All site personnel, depending on the issue involved and everyone whom the issue under discussion

       might impact.

The SBU SHE Manager and PSM Technical Leader ( substantive issues, incidents, accomplishments, status of open and overdue 2nd party PSM audit recommendations)

                Global PSM Leader (for PSM related incident reports, and 2nd party PSM audit scores)

               Corporate Legal for US based PSM or RMP related regulatory inspection activity

               

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

Formal Academic/Professional Attainment:

Engineering or chemistry degree or equivalent technical degree or experience

General Work Experience:

Five (5) years ATO/R&D/Technical Consultant,  Process Engineer or SHE related experience.

Specific Skills/Knowledge/Behaviors:

                Strong broad working knowledge of PSM elements, detailed program requirements within

               a wide range of EHS standards

                Working knowledge of regulations applicable to process safety (examples NFPA, OSHA)

Experience with Root Cause Failure Analysis

Experience with Hazards Assessments (ex PHA)

Strong demonstration of principle based behaviors

Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

Strong networking skills and capabilities

PC skills – intranet and Window Applications

                Meeting design and facilitation skills

                Attention to details with persistence to drive continuous improvement

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