Koch Industries

Process Safety Engineer

Koch Industries$88K — $105K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or military environments.
  • Background in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or safety-focused technical roles.
  • Knowledge of Process Safety regulations, specifically 29 CFR 1910.119 and 40 CFR 68.
  • Experience in root-cause analysis for process safety incidents.

Responsibilities

  • Develop risk assessment strategies and maintain safety guidelines.
  • Lead root cause failure analyses for process safety incidents.
  • Assist in establishing process safety objectives and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Analyze incidents to ensure sustainable corrective actions are implemented.
  • Review safety metrics and recommend improvements for training systems.
  • Coordinate engineering reviews for process hazard analyses and management of change.
  • Oversee process safety information and mentor employees on safety practices.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan options.
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is excited to offer an opportunity for a talented Process Safety Engineer at our Wauna Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon. Reporting to the Chemical Process Safety Manager, you will be an integral part of the process safety team, driving value-based strategies, providing technical expertise, and influencing leadership in process safety, product stewardship, and compliance. This role involves a mix of fieldwork at the mill and office-based responsibilities, along with on-call duties one week per month.

What You Will Do
  • Develop your technical and leadership capabilities by managing risk assessment strategies, participating in Risk Assessments (PHAs, Project Design Reviews, Design Operation and Maintenance, Prevention through Design), and maintaining process safety guidelines and risk assessment tools, including expertise with the Chemical Reactivity Hazard Management electronic tool.
  • Lead root cause failure analysis (RCFA) for process safety incidents and near misses to ensure sustainable corrective actions are implemented, providing detailed technical direction to enhance process safety performance.
  • Assist Safety & Health leadership in developing and implementing short- and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks.
  • Analyze process safety incidents and near misses to ensure sustainable corrective actions are implemented, providing detailed technical direction to enhance process safety performance.
  • Review and provide metrics to monitor process safety compliance and evaluate training systems for effectiveness, recommending improvements as needed.
  • Coordinate engineering review capabilities for process hazard analyses (PHA), management of change (MOC), and pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR).
  • Oversee the mill's process safety information, including P&IDs, PFDs, chemical compatibility matrices, and serve as a mentor to technical and hourly employees to embed process safety as a core mission for continuous operational improvement.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or military environments.
  • Background in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, or safety-focused technical roles (ex: process safety, process engineering, mechanical integrity, or reliability within PSM-regulated operations).
  • Experience with Process Safety regulations, specifically 29 CFR 1910.119 and 40 CFR 68.
  • Root-cause analysis experience.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Bachelors degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.
  • Pulp and Paper Experience.
  • Experience with Process Hazard Analysis (PHA).


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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