Process & Equipment Safety Engineer

Job Title: Safety Engineer

Position Summary   

Lead role for developing site Safety Engineering team. Provides safety engineering technical support for engineering design, construction, and sustainable operations. Engineer focus areas include Equipment Safety, Process Safety, and Ergonomics. Supports overall EHS site initiatives.

Job Functions

• Provides technical environmental, safety, and health support and information to production and corporate personnel.  
• Supports Process Safety Management (PSM) Program and owns execution of high-quality risk assessments & risk management deliverables.
• Supports facilitates risk studies including: PHA, HazOp/LOPA, HAZID, and other risk assessment methods. 
• Facilitates reliability studies including: FTA, PFMEA, DFMEA
• Leads design engineering technical deep dives for green field and brown field engineering projects.
• Drives scoping & implementation of engineering safety/ hazard mitigation design strategies. 
• Lead efforts for modeling scenarios and working with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct modeling such as CFD, FDS, PHAST, Canary, iPRISM, ALOHA, and other risk modeling tools.   
• Leads follow-through reviews/ coordination to ensure identified risks & mitigation efforts have been included in engineering design. 
• Develop standardization of equipment safety specifications.  
• Perform machinery safety risk assessment (MRA), equipment buyoffs, and support safety controls change requests.
• Review equipment design to ensure equipment and tooling adhere to ANSI, ISO, RIA, EN, NFPA, GB, and OSHA equipment, machinery, and electrical safety standards components that could be affected by new or modified equipment.
• Perform Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) to ensure manufacturers have incorporated applicable ANSI and OSHA standards into the equipment.
• Perform (SAT) Site acceptance testing, to ensure equipment is safe for operation.
• Conduct safety functionality testing on newly installed or modified equipment to ensure the safety control devices perform as intended by the safety logic.
• Lead routine Safety Audits to ensure machinery is operated as designed and all safety devices are functioning as intended and identify opportunities to mitigate risks.
• Implement project management tools to follow equipment from design through start of production.
• Proactively engage and train customers on equipment safety program and risks
• Manage ergonomic risk assessments for all production workstations. 
• Uses ergonomic guidelines to address current manufacturing injury concerns and future model planning.   
• Assist in chemical approval requests and updating HMIS permit accordingly. 
• Ensure compliance with Local, State, and Federal health and safety regulations.
• Supports overall EHS site initiatives. 

Required Education and Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in a chemical, mechanical engineering preferred. 
• A minimum of three years in engineering discipline. 
• A minimum of two years of experience supporting safety, health and environmental operations in a manufacturing/production environment.  
• Knowledge of battery manufacturing, EV manufacturing, or refinery operations is a plus.  
• Extensive knowledge of State and Federal safety standards. A working knowledge of ergonomic standards and evaluation tools; working knowledge of the company manufacturing processes.  
• Able to work cross-functionally with staff in Operations, Maintenance, Production, Engineering, and Quality.  

Candidate should also be familiar with the following:   

• Life Safety Design – Familiar with IBC & IFC for life safety design requirements. 
• Fire Protection Engineering – Engineering basis of design for identified hazardous areas and associated fire control systems. 
• Process Controls- Understanding safety system requirements for the basic process control loop (BPCS) and safety instrumented systems (SIS) as they pertain to SIL/PL ratings. 

Travel:

• Travel up to 35%. 

Benefits

• Working in a great team environment
• Highly automated, clean, safe, and temperature-controlled production environment
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance – effective day 1 
• HSA and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K with company match plus annual retirement contribution
• Life Insurance (Company paid and additional voluntary life available)