The Role
The Process Safety Engineer drives operational excellence in process safety, providing expertise and leadership in PSM at the St. James manufacturing facility.
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Overview:
The Americas Styrenics - St. James Plant is one of the largest single location manufactures of styrene monomer in the world. This Process Safety Engineer will be expected to drive operational excellence in process safety, as well as provide comprehensive guidance as the plant’s subject matter expert on OSHA Standard 1910.119 - Process Safety Management.
The Process Safety Engineer is responsible for providing technical expertise and leadership in all aspects of process safety management (PSM) at the St. James manufacturing facility through a partnership with Operations, Maintenance, EH&S, and Corporate Process Safety departments. The position provides a lead role in assessing work conditions and identifying potential risk through the promotion of a strong process safety culture and management system.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Identify and decrease process safety risk by applying risk-based analytical methodology to all areas of the process units
- Communicate and train plant personnel on the process safety management standards
- Facilitate and/or participate in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA), Management of Change (MOC), Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR), and Layers of Protection Analyses (LOPA), and provide recommendations to address deficiencies
- Collect and analyze process safety metric trends for improvement opportunities
- Assess work conditions and identify potential risks that could lead to unplanned or uncontrolled releases
- Collaborate with the appropriate departments and management to ensure process safety fundamentals and best practices are integrated, understood and implemented in appropriate areas such as operating procedures, engineering practices, and asset integrity.
- Facilitate and/or participate on incident investigation teams to identify effective corrective and preventive actions. Understand the PSM implications of incidents and provide guidance to the plant for proper classification, investigation, and improvements
- Help ensure the application of recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP) for process unit designs and operations
- Provide technical support for proposed projects to ensure compliance with the process safety program
- Oversee corrective action implementation from audits, self-assessments, RCIs, PHAs, and LOPAs
- Perform and document process safety management self-assessments and develop action plans for identified gaps
- Provide training to plant personnel regarding the process safety program, hazard recognition, and PSM procedures and requirements.
- Represent the St. James plant as a member of the AmSty Process Safety Network by sharing significant learnings and participating in the development of corporate-level process safety initiatives
- Other duties as necessary supporting the needs of the Department
Job Requirements:
- Engineering degree (preferably chemical or mechanical)
- Preferred 5-7 years experience in a process safety role or equivalent engineering experience in a PSM-covered facility
- Gain knowledge of the styrene manufacturing process units
- Gain knowledge of the operating procedures
- Working knowledge of OSHA PSM 14 elements. St. James is a VPP site.
- Experience with industry codes and standards including, but not limited to CCPS’s Risk-Based Process Safety framework, API RP 754, OSHA 1910.119 PSM regulation
- 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 decrease risk and ensure safety
- Preferably trained in:
- -Process Hazard Analysis facilitation
- -Layers of Protection Analysis facilitation
- -Safety Instrumented Systems (i.e. IEC 61511)
- -Effluent modeling (e.g., ALOHA, PHAST)
- -Quantitative risk analysis
- -Facility siting
- - Root cause analysis
- Ability to travel on periodic basis (i.e., 3-4 trips per year)
- Must be able to obtain a Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) Card
Relocation is not available with this position.
Americas Styrenics LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status or marital status.
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Top Skills
Aloha
Api Rp 754
Iec 61511
Osha 1910.119
Phast
Risk-Based Process Safety
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The Company
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
