Senior/Staff Engineer, Process Safety Management

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POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior/Staff Engineer, Process Safety Management reports to the Engineering Superintendent, Process Safety Management, and will help to provide governance and assurance for an effective implementation of the Process Safety Management program elements. The Senior/Staff Engineer, Process Safety Management will support implementation and ongoing assurance of this Process Safety Management program and shall support the site’s procedures, guidelines, and tools, associated with Process Safety Management, with a focus on continuous improvement. 

All activities will be delivered maintaining Cheniere’s core values: teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimble and safety. 

This is a non-DOT position.    

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Dependent on the specific work assignment within the Process Safety program, some or all of the following apply:

• Support the adoption, implementation, and assurance of the PSM elements across the various site departments to ensure company best practices and procedures are understood, implemented and followed.
• Support and facilitate PHAs and other risk assessment processes.
• Identify and quantify Process Safety risks at the facility and measures for managing these risks.
• Ensure Process Safety risks are tracked, communicated, action plans are approved, and risks managed properly through the Process Safety Risk Register and Risk Action Plans (RAP). Maintain and update the Process Safety Risk Register. Provide technical leadership and support to identify hazards, evaluate the risk of those hazards, and assist in the development of effective solutions to mitigate risk.
• Develop and perform self-assessment for various PSM programs.
• Supports and manage the Incident Management Process and Incident Investigations associated with identified Process Safety Events (PSEs).
• Develop, monitor, and analyze trends in site PSM Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). 
• Support the MOC Process to ensure risks are properly identified and managed for changes and PHAs and PSSRs are adequate.
• Support the Bypass Override Risk Assessment (BORA) process as required.
• Mentor others in process safety to understand, identify and reduce process safety risk. 
• Support the site in identifying and sustaining the management of key Process Safety Information (PSI).
• Support the development of PSM software tools.
• Perform Building Siting reviews to evaluate occupied and non-occupied buildings and support Building Siting program at site.
• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS 

Knowledge:

Possesses a thorough understanding of OSHA PSM, Responsible Care, and EPA – RMP regulations. Understands and can apply API Process Safety Performance Indicators, Management of Hazards associated with Process Plant Buildings and Process Safety Risks at a facility.  As well as a general understanding of consequence modeling, Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) methods and interpreting results. General knowledge of API 752, 753, 756. Understands natural gas liquefaction, LNG transportation, operations, storage, and loading. 

Familiar with the various applicable federal, state, and local agencies and applicable laws, regulations, codes, standards, and permits required to operate LNG terminals, including but not limited to: DOT, OSHA, USCG, EPA, FERC, NFPA, and knowledge of emergency response operations, planning, techniques, and reporting.

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