Senior Engineer, Process Safety

Company Description

Senior Engineer, Process Safety

3600 Arco Corporate Dr, Charlotte, NC 28273, USA

Full-time

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Job Description

We are looking for bright and motivated individuals to apply their education and industrial experience to our engineering team to develop and manage our Process Safety Group. To succeed in this role you must have strong leadership skill and thrive in team settings. Are you our new Senior Process Safety Engineer? Click the apply-button to send your application.

Inviting bright minds
Do you want to push the boundaries of your profession and develop your excellence in an open, collaborative and empowering culture? We work to create a sustainable future and our inspiring projects and innovative solutions strive to set the standard among our peers. You will join a global company that has been growing successfully since its founding in 1945. Together, we lead and leave a positive impact on societies, companies and people around the world.

As our new Senior Process Safety Engineer, you will work alongside our Process Safety Engineering Manager to execute projects and grow our Process Safety Group. As part of Ramboll’s Energy Intensive Industries/Advanced Manufacturing practice, you will coordinate with our multi-discipline design/engineering staff to assure safe and quality designs for various manufacturing markets. Core competencies required to be successful are experience facilitating and scribing Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs) and Dust Hazard Analyses for our clients, and mentoring a small group of process safety experts. You will also work closely with our Process Safety & Risk Management Group auditing our clients PSM Programs to identify gaps and areas of improvement. Your responsibility will be for assuring Process Safety of our projects over the total life cycle running from technical studies, front-end loading stages, detailed engineering design to constructability reviews.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Facilitate and/or scribe PHAs for chemical manufacturing processes (HAZIDs, HAZOPs, FMEA, LOPAs)
• Facilitate and/or scribe Dust Hazard Analyses (DHAs) for industrial processes
• Work alongside our Process Safety Engineering Manager to grow into a leadership role
• Actively support the pursuit of new project work for the process safety group. This includes preparing proposals and scope of work write-ups as well as estimating engineering labor hours and fees
• Mentor, coach and support development of process safety expertise in earlier-career engineering staff
• Responsible for managing budget and schedule performance on process safety tasks of projects
• Perform PSM applicability studies and PSM audits
• Effectively communicate/document with project team, including outside contacts, customers, and other engineering departments
• Guide the development of internal Process Safety policies and procedures

Your starting point for constant growth
From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering (or equivalent) and 10+ years of relevant experience in process safety engineering
• Experience with facilitation and scribing of PHAs
• Experience with PHA Facilitation Software (PHAWorks, PHA-Pro or similar)
• Experience with Safety Integrity Level (SIL) calculations
• Experience with the design and/or operation of PSM-covered processes
• Experience with auditing the requirements for PSM processes (eg. operating procedures, mechanical integrity program, management of change)
• Experience with combustible dust standards and DHA facilitation
• Proficient with