Job Requirements
Lead Process Safety Engineer JD:
- Risk Analysis & Identification: Identifying potential hazards (fire, explosion, toxicity) and evaluating risks using techniques like HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA and QRA.
- Design Safety Integration: Ensuring that process technology, design, and control systems inherently minimize risk.
- Safety Critical Elements (SCE): Identifying and ensuring the integrity of equipment designed to prevent, control, or mitigate hazards.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring all designs meet international standards like NFPA, API, ASME, and IEC, as well as local regulations like OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM).
- Developing critical documents such as Hazardous Area Classification, Fire & Gas (F&G) layouts, and Escape Route layouts, safety management systems, procedures, and reports.
- Safety System Design: Designing active and passive firefighting systems, emergency shutdown systems, and pressure relief/ flare systems.
- Inherently Safer Design (ISD): Applying principles like minimizing or substituting hazardous materials at the earliest design stages to eliminate risks before they are built.
- Sound knowledge in Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESD) and Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL).
- Consequence Modeling: Using specialized software (e.g., PHAST) to simulate gas dispersion, explosion impacts, and thermal radiation to determine safe equipment spacing.
- ALARP Demonstrations: Formal reports proving that risks have been reduced to As Low As Reasonably Practicable
- Safety Philosophies: High-level documents defining the project's approach to fire protection, emergency isolation, and hazardous area classification.
Work Experience
Work Experience:
Required Qualifications & Background
- Education: Bachelor's degree in chemical, or Process Safety Engineering.
- Experience: Usually, 8+ years of experience in Process Safety design, particularly in Oil & Gas, chemicals, or manufacturing.
- Software & Tools: Proficiency in simulation tools for dispersion, fire, and explosion modeling.
- Core Competencies: Strong analytical skills, communication, and the ability to influence design decisions.
Technical Tools & Software
Engineers to be conversant with specialized modeling and simulation software:
- PHAST (by DNV): Used for consequence modeling (dispersion, fire, and explosion analysis).
- AFT Fathom / Pipenet: For hydraulic calculations of firewater and safety systems.
- Flaresim: For modeling flare radiation and thermal effects.
- AutoCAD: For drafting safety layouts and P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams).
