Senior Pressure Safety Engineer

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What We Offer
As a Senior Pressure Safety Engineer, this role will design, analyze and optimize pressure safety and emergency relief systems, including reactive cases and two-phase flow. Represents the company in industrial and trade communities such as AIChE (DIERS), ASME and API.
Major Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate emergency relief systems such as pressure safety valves and rupture disks for plants in the NAFTA region.
• Design, analyze and optimize pressure safety aspects of highly integrated processes as well as basic unit operations such as distillation columns or heat exchangers.
• Facilitate advanced pressure safety contingency review and project meetings; perform advanced pressure safety calculations including reactive cases, headers and two-phase flow.
• Support Global and Regional pressure safety policy development, training, and execution.
• Support documentation of regional pressure safety standards and policies.
• Drive policy discussions and improvements to our standards and procedures.
• Support business unit with day-to-day operations that impact or impacted by their emergency relief systems.
• Review and approve Emergency Relief System Design packages to ensure they meet internal qualification requirements.
• Participate in Operational Safety evaluation of pressure safety related hazards and provide safeguard design solutions and implementation verification.
• Proactively solve pressure safety related concerns and problems as discovered through process unit interactions.
• Proposes solution to drive efficiency in Pressure safety work processes.
• Plans for TAR support.
• Actively involved in industrial organizations such as AIChE, ASME, API, or other.
• Participate in HSEQ service initiatives and represent the HSEQ organization within the site.

What You Offer
Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in chemical or similar engineering with 6 years of experience, Master of Science in chemical or similar engineering and 4 years of experience, or a Ph.D. in chemical or similar engineering and 2 years of experience.
• Plant experience and minimum of 2 years Emergency Relief System experience in sizing and specifying pressure relief devices.
• The eligibility to apply for and obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) within a reasonable timeframe

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience as a project or process engineer in various capacities
• Professional engineer certification

Knowledge & Skills:

• Understanding of chemical engineering fundamentals (chemical reaction, unit operations, process control concepts).
• Possess a working knowledge of relevant industry codes and standards including ASME, API, ASHRAE-15, IIAR, NFPA, and OSHA regulations.
• Understand and analyze highly integrated processes based on process documentation (PFD, P&ID)
• Proficiency in the use of pressure safety calculation tool such as Superchems or other
• Facilitate advanced pressure safety contingency review and project meetings. Perform advanced pressure safety calculations including reactive cases, headers, and two-phase flow.
• Demonstrate leadership and people skills working within cross functional teams.
• Ability to communicate (both written and verbal) effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Participate and effectively lead regional/global teams. Presentation experience is necessary.
• Willingness to travel; expected no more than 5%

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