Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead the plant mechanical integrity efforts including managing vessel, piping, and relief device inspections and repairs, as well as managing the corrosion under insulation (CUI) program and testing and maintenance of safety instrumented systems (SIS) and preventive maintenance of mechanical integrity covered equipment (MICE).
- Manage the plant fire protection program including inspections, testing, repairs, and improvements.
- Lead the plant process safety program to drive performance improvement and ensure adherence to process safety management (PSM) requirements and corporate process safety policies, work processes, and standards at the plant level (e.g., pre-startup safety reviews, management of change, process hazard analysis).
- Direct risk assessment techniques including process hazard analyses and layers of protection analysis. Review and recommend risk evaluation methods for new projects.
- Lead, facilitate, or participate in plant incident investigations to determine root causes of incidents, especially those that are related to process safety.
- Provide training to plant personnel regarding the process safety and mechanical integrity program and procedures, as well as hazard recognition.
- Management of Change (MOC) coordinator for the site and responsible for maintaining process safety information.
- Compile, analyze, and report mechanical integrity and process safety metrics, and leverage the Process Safety and Reliability Networks in AmSty to identify and resolve opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure timely completion of action items resulting from process safety gaps identified during PHAs, audits, investigations, and self-assessments; manage the facility’s action item process.
- Serve as the plant’s subject matter expert in a specialty field of mechanical integrity and process safety.
- Initiate and manage projects (expense and/or capital) related to mechanical integrity and process safety improvements.
- Contribute to the plant’s Value Creation program by identifying and implementing value creation opportunities.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering.
- Practical working knowledge of mechanical integrity-related industry codes and standards (ASME, NACE, API 570/510/653).
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to effectively develop and maintain relationships with all levels of the organization. Ability to collaborate and generate solutions that effectively balance process safety with the needs of the manufacturing environment.
- Ability to travel on periodic basis (i.e., 1-3 trips per year).
Preferred:
- 5-7 years' experience in a PSM-covered facility.
Top Skills
What We Do
AmSty is a leading integrated producer of polystyrene and styrene monomer, offering solutions and services to customers in a variety of markets throughout the Americas. AmSty is at the forefront of sustainability innovation and circular recycling. The company is a joint venture equally owned by Trinseo LLC and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP.
A combination of the second largest polystyrene producer in the Americas and the third largest styrene producer in the Americas, AmSty brings great advantages to its customers.
By optimizing our production, marketing and supply chain capability, focusing on safe production processes and leveraging state-of-art technologies, we have developed a strategy for success. AmSty embraces the ideas, attitudes and behaviors that have earned great results and respect for our parent companies. We apply these winning principles in our business model.
Safety is paramount to our success at AmSty and it is a core focus in everything that we do. We strive daily for zero injuries and incidents. AmSty values environmental stewardship, corporate responsibility and community involvement
