Process Safety Engineer
Permanent, Full time
Saltend Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
We’re looking for a Lead Process Safety Engineer to join the INEOS Acetyls team. We need highly motivated individuals who want to be part of our growing business.
INEOS Acetyls is a global chemicals business producing acetic acid and a range of derivatives across Europe, Asia and America. We’re part of INEOS - one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world, employing around 26,000 people across 194 sites in 29 countries.
You will be based at the Hull site, which is the largest producer of acetic acid, acetic anhydride and ethyl acetate in Europe. The products produced are essential building blocks used in almost every industry, including renewable power, automotive, pharmaceuticals, coatings and textiles.
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About the opportunity
The Lead Process Safety Engineer is part of the Acetyls Hull SHE team and is a role that provides process safety leadership and technical expertise in support of safe, reliable, and compliant operations. With a working knowledge of INEOS procedures and practices associated with process hazard and risk, the Lead Process Safety Engineer is the subject matter expert providing technical advice on a broad range of process safety issues.
The Lead Process Safety Engineer manages the process safety agenda for an upper tier COMAH site and is critical to business continuity as one of its’ obejctives is to ensure legislative compliance, whilst actively conforming with INEOS requirements and promoting good practice at Hull site. If you thrive on a challenge and are prepared to push yourself, then INEOS’ open and non-hierarchical approach to business will give you the opportunity to quickly develop your career. We value daily collaboration and teamwork, reaping the benefits of working on site/office based.
Accountabilities
- Site technical authority and expert in process safety providing support for the manufacturing assets in both compliance and development. This includes proactively networking and monitoring operating assets in order to identify efficiencies or conflicts with process safety programmes, providing support where needed, to mitigate or solve issues through improvements, asset plans and projects.
- Responsible for identifying applicable process safety legislation and regulations and ensuring that INEOS Acetyls Hull comply with them as necessary.
- Owner of Hull site specific practices and procedures such as site standing orders (SSOs), process safety practices (PAPs) and other relevant safety standards, making sure they conform with INEOS group standards such as the IGGNs, Life Saving Rules and the 20 Safety Principles.
- Responsible for leading and driving forward the suite of activities that help identify, mitigate and manage risk and hazard in the goal of safe, reliable and compliant operations. This includes ownership of, but is not limited to, (1) the process hazard analysis (PHA) programme, (2) ALARP, (3) the emerging risk process, (4) the site risk register, (5) occupied buildings, (6) Barrier Assurance and (7) the severity risk matrix, to name a few.
- Responsible for and leading the delivery of the annual process safety improvement plan.
- Responsible for the COMAH safety report and the relationship with Competent Authorities (Health and Safety Executive and Environmental Agency) including managing the intervention plan and general factory inspections by preparing the site visits and coordinating the delivery of actions and improvement opportunities that arise.
- Trained HazOp and LOPA leader, responsible for leading Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment reviews for the manufacturing
- Site contact and expert for process safety related software, including those used for hazard identification, risk assessment, consequence modelling (such as PHAST) and QRA (such as SAFETI).
- Provide critical support to Human Factor activities that include identification of COMAH critical tasks and safety critical task analysis.
- Accountable for the health of the Process Safety discipline at INEOS Acetyls Hull.
- Responsible for the communication of process safety information through the Acetyls organisation and up through the line to management and the board of directors.
About you
The successful candidate will be a trained HAZOP / LOPA Leader with a proven record of working with process safety practices and processes that includes HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, SIL, ATEX, DSEAR, QRA etc.
You will have a strong track record in Process Safety with a good working knowledge of process safety risk assessment tools, consequence modelling techniques and running models to support the site quantified risk assessment work.
Relevant system design experience including the development of PFDs, P&IDs, technical reports and specifications, control philosophies, layout development / safety assessments of plot plans, and associated documentation and system modelling capability is essential. To this end, a good working knowledge to national and international codes and standards relevant to process design and equipment selection would be an advantage.
A proven record of being able to work successfully in a multi-discipline team environment is key. You will also have good communication and influencing skills, with the ability to balance conflicting demands in a continuously developing environment.
You will be a good motivator and will be able to identify improvement opportunities within your teams and more broadly, with a desire for knowledge management and the ability to capture lessons learned for future improvements.
Results orientation and performance bias with good attention to detail.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus plan
- Generous contributory pension
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays with option to buy extra annual leave and flex 5 of these bank holidays
- Ongoing career development
- Wide range of benefits including discounted private medical insurance, health cash plans and high street discounts
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Free on-site gym will launch soon in Hull
- Online health and fitness hub for employees, plus friends and family
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a wide range of support services including counselling, financial support, legal services – for employees and family.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Volunteering opportunities
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