Senior Process Safety Engineer

Ashland Inc.

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Process Safety Engineer.  This is a very visible, significant role that will lead process safety improvement initiatives and activities across the organization. This position will report to the EHS Director. This is a remote-based position with approximately 30% travel.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provides leadership in driving the company’s efforts around safe, compliant, and responsible operations with a primary emphasis on driving process safety incident performance results to ZERO.
• Acts as a main point of contact for multiple global facilities regarding process safety performance, technical support, and adherence to regulatory requirements (OSHA PSM, Seveso, etc.) and Ashland’s Global Process Safety Standard.
• Applies technical knowledge to process safety incident investigations. Works with manufacturing team members to identify and implement improvement recommendations.
• Leads internal and external resources regarding Process Hazard Analysis/Layer of Protection Analysis (PHA/LOPA), Combustible Dust Assessment (CDA), Facility Siting risk assessment, and Consequence Modeling
• Participates in or directs outside resources to complete process safety compliance audits.
• Provides guidance on process safety for the transition of new processes developed by Ashland’s Global Technology Organization from laboratory to production.
• Tracks and reports PSM Tier 1 and 2 process safety events.
• With input from Ashland’s Asset Integrity & Reliability Group, ensure process safety relief calculations are performed appropriately by internal or external resources
• Provides guidance on and updates to Ashland’s process safety procedures as necessary regarding regulatory updates - such as OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, NJDEP, Seveso, API, NFPA, DIERS, etc.

To be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• A relevant science/engineering degree
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in process safety and/or related process engineering field in the chemical manufacturing industry
• Experience working in a specialty chemical manufacturing, petrochemical, or refinery setting
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements and RAGAGEP (e.g., OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, NJDEP, Seveso, API, NFPA, DIERS, etc)
• Working knowledge in consequence modeling and/or process simulation software is a plus (e.g., PHAST, Superchems, Aspen, etc)
• Expertise in PSM elements with a focus on PSI, PHA, MOC/PSSR, and MI
• Excellent communication skills required
• Ability to travel up to 30%, both domestically and internationally

The following skill sets are preferred:

• Experience in pressure relief design and analysis (DIERS)
• Experience working in both a manufacturing and a corporate setting
• Process safety certification (CCPSC) or the ability to obtain within 12 months
• Leadership experience in a Technical Area is preferred

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment whe