Lead Process Safety Engineer

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what's possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world's most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

Reimagine What's Possible

The successful candidate will be a member of the Air Products Membrane Solutions team, located at the St Louis membrane production facility. This facility uses significant amounts of hazardous and flammable solvents in its production processes and must ensure adequate safety controls and policies. The Process Safety engineer will ensure that the facility meets all regulatory and company safety standards, and that hazard reviews are conducted on all assets, including process equipment, pipelines, and storage. Reviews will use a suite of tools and methodologies to help evaluate risk, and develop mitigation strategies to keep our employees, customers, and neighbors safe.

The position will maintain close working relationships with the overall Air Products Americas Process Safety team and, for higher risks or unique challenges, with the Corporate Central Process Safety team.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead and/or facilitate Process Safety Assessments, including Process Hazard Analyses, for new projects and operating facilities to identify hazards, ensure adequate safeguards exist and recommend additional safeguards as required.

• Conduct specialized risk and consequence studies, including quantified risk analysis and dispersion modeling, in conjunction with the Central Process Safety Team, for company risk assessment or regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate, Lead and participate in the root cause analysis and accident investigation for incidents.

• Provide process safety consulting, review, and approval to support plant Management of Change (MOC) and Mechanical Integrity extensions to ensure good engineering design and compliance with Air Products standards and policies.

• Administer the global safety retrofit program by providing prioritization, technical guidance, and design details to meet the intended risk reduction.

• Proactively participate in the development of global process safety standards, tools, programs, training courses, and work processes.

• Identify and implement continuous improvement efforts to drive process safety performance.

• Assist in interpretation of national and local process safety regulatory/code requirements for the region where the plant is installed. Provide documentation for regulatory filings.

• Peer review of process safety calculations, consequence modeling, and analyses completed by others.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering strongly preferred; other disciplines will be considered based on experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in industrial gas, oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical or related industries in a process safety, process engineering or plant engineering role.

• Experience and understanding of flowsheets (P&ID's), safety relief demand scenarios, and basic function of unit operations.

• Experience with consequence modeling (e.g. PHAST), risk quantification (e.g. LOPA) and hazard review documentation (e.g. PHAWorks) is a plus.

• Experience with instrumentation, process controls, and electrical design is beneficial.

• Good leadership skills, good engineering problem-solving skills, good interpersonal and communication skills, and

• CI Mindset and passion about the job mission

What's In It for You:

At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard, and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally, we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)

• 401k with 100% vested company core and match

• Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time

• Paid Parental leave (Up to 8 weeks)

• Backup Child and Adult Care benefit

• Adoption assistance

• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent daycare)

• Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products), Supplemental AD&D

• Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage

• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

• Many more supplemental benefits available

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We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.

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