Sempra Energy

Chief Process Safety Engineer

Sempra Energy • $130K — $180K *
Houston, TX 77084In-Person
Energy & Utilities
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 4-year degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of process safety engineering/management experience
  • Experience working in North American or international LNG facilities is preferred
  • Strong understanding of engineering design and troubleshooting
  • Proficient in regulatory compliance and safety management standards

Responsibilities

  • Implement engineering solutions to enhance safety and reduce operational risks
  • Establish methodologies for enhanced system reliability
  • Lead long-term planning for engineering initiatives to boost efficiency
  • Conduct risk assessments and hazard identification studies
  • Review technical engineering documents to ensure safety compliance

Benefits

  • Work with a diverse, technically skilled team
  • Opportunity to impact operational efficiency and safety
  • Exposure to advanced engineering methodologies
  • Contribute to critical LNG infrastructure projects
  • Support for continuous professional development
Full Job Description
Primary Purpose
Ability to work with a diverse group of technical individuals whose skills cover the range required to engineer, operate, and maintain the company's LNG export liquefaction facilities and receiving terminals (all disciplines including process, instrumentation, and controls, mechanical, electrical, and civil).

Manages the team overseeing contractor and supplier Process Safety engineering work starting in the early project development phases through the project Execute phase. Coordinates the execution of engineering scopes with the functional E&C Engineering team. Ensures compliance with project specifications, SI guidelines and philosophies, and maintains the technical integrity of the Process Safety engineering throughout the project lifecycle.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Implements engineering solutions that enhance safety and reduce operational risks.
  • Establishes methodologies to enhance system reliability across operations.
  • Leads long-term planning and execution of engineering initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and infrastructure resilience.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Supplemental Responsibilities
  • Lead risk assessments, hazard identification/evaluation studies, hazard operability studies, consequences analysis, layers of protection analysis and department reviews.
  • Interpret and apply appropriate Codes of Federal Regulation and Standards including but not limited to:
    o 29 CFR Part 1910.119, Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals.
    o 49 CFR Part 193, Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities: Federal Safety Standards.
    o The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA): NFPA 59A, Standard for the Production, Storage, and Handling of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
  • Review and comment on technical engineering analyses, design bases and philosophies, diagrams, drawings, reports, scopes of work, terms of reference, and white papers, while guiding project teams to identify and integrate safety-in-design improvements and ensure alignment with regulations, standards, and industry best practices.
  • Review and provide comments on Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR), Management of Change (MOC) submissions and related Process Safety Management (PSM) policies and standards.


Education
  • Required: Typically requires a 4 year degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Experience
  • Required: Typically requires 15 years of related experience.
  • Preference will be given to candidates with more than 15 years of process safety engineering/management experience working on North American or international Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import or export facilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Required: Engineering Design - A series of steps that engineers follow to find a solution to a problem.
  • Required: Troubleshooting - The systematic process of diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, or network issues to restore normal operation.
  • Required: Data Analysis - Measuring and managing organization data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyses.
  • Required: Equipment Maintenance and Repair - Any process used to keep a business's equipment in reliable working order, including routine upkeep as well as corrective repair.
  • Required: Engineering Blueprint/Schematics Interpretation - Reading Engineering drawings and understanding the ideas and information that they are intended to communicate.
  • Required: Root Cause Analysis - The process of discovering the root causes of problems in order to identify appropriate solutions.
  • Required: Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
  • Required: Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Management - The systematic approach to maintain health and safety at occupation and protect the environment.
  • Required: Project/Program Management - The process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time.
  • Required: Asset Management - A systematic process of developing, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets in the most cost-effective manner (including all costs, risks and performance attributes).

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate to all parties (partners, peers, management, EPC, suppliers) clearly is critical to performance of the position: ability includes having the presentation development and public speaking skills needed to express technical subject matter to a technical and non-technical audiences and to audiences representing the various levels within the organization.
  • Have a working knowledge of Process Safety Management (PSM): Either Occupational Health and Safety Administration's (OSHA)'s or American Institute Chemical Engineer's (AIChE) approach to PSM and the elements within the different approaches to identify, assess and manage process safety hazards within a defined management system.
  • Ability to work with a diverse group of technical individuals whose skills cover the range required to engineer, operate, and maintain the company's LNG export liquefaction facilities and receiving terminals (all disciplines including process, instrumentation, and controls, mechanical, electrical, and civil).

About Sempra Energy

Sempra Energy was created in 1998 by a merger of parent companies of two long-established, and highly respected, investor-owned utilities with rich histories dating back more than a century. Sempra Energy was founded to capitalize on new opportunities in competitive energy markets. The company’s ongoing focus is to enhance shareholder value and meet customer needs by sustaining the financial strength, operational flexibility and skilled workforce needed to succeed in rapidly changing market conditions. Sempra Energy is a Fortune 500 energy services company, based in San Diego, Calif., that combines deep industry expertise with rigorous risk management to deliver superior shareholder returns. In 2013, Sempra Energy produced revenues of approximately $10.5 billion.

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Learn more about Sempra Energy
Size
15,390 employees
Market Cap
$49.7 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
$3.9 billion
Founded
1996
5 Year Trend
+4.7%
Revenue
$11.3 billion
NASDAQ
SRE
* Ladders Estimates

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