Safety Engineer
The Safety Engineer reports to the Safety Manager and is part of our Safety team. The focus of this support position is to lead the incident investigation work process as the site focal point and to support personal safety evaluations to ensure the safety of our employees, our environment, and our community. The successful candidate will leverage safety data and metrics to drive the site toward the elimination of personal safety impacts and incidents.
Job Responsibilities May Include:
- Ensure compliance and continuous improvement with regulatory requirements (federal, state, and county), corporate standards, and industry best practices
- Interpret regulations and standards
- Develop and improve site safety programs
- Develop training materials for site employees and contractors
- Participate in training of employees
- Coach operations and maintenance employees and maintenance contractors
- Audit implementation of safety programs
- Investigate incidents and near misses
- Develop and implement KPIs to track effectiveness of safety programs
- Participate in safety programs and assist with department responsibilities
- Core regulatory safety programs including personal safety, permit to work, intrusive work, energy isolation, hot work, and confined space entry
- Contractor safety programs
- Turnaround safety programs
- Other safety programs including Goal Zero, safety observations, hazard recognition audits, permit to work audits, recognition programs, Joint Health & Safety Committee
- Requires a significant field presence to ensure safe work
- Observation, guidance, coaching, and auditing
- Significant field presence required during turnarounds
- Facilitating Personal Safety Incident/Case Management at the site
- Lead and support incident investigations by becoming certified in ABS Causal Analysis and Triangle of Prevention (TOP)
- Collaborate with others in similar roles across the organization to understand effective practices and to conduct health checks
- Assist the Industrial Hygienist (IH) to resolve health issues by identifying risks, and by implementing policies and programs to mitigate these.
- Working with broad range of internal customers in support of Incident Investigation and Preventive and Corrective Actions as they relate to incidents across the site
- Interpret and provide insights on safety data and metrics
- Influence change and promote safety programs
- Effective communication and influencing of site leadership to address safety weaknesses
- Provide consultation to the line organization and mentoring to staff on incident investigation work process
- Present findings to Leaders at the site
Position Specific Requirements:
- Mix of computer-based office work and field inspection and testing in refinery plant units
- Physical Requirements:
- Climb ladders
- Walk up and down steps
- Lift 50 pounds
- Work in the Following Conditions:
- At heights
- Outside in inclement weather
- Work Schedule:
- Available in off hours and days to respond to refinery issues or emergencies, including on-call emergency response functions.
- Occasionally an altered work schedule over an extended period may be required (maintenance outages and turnarounds)
- Possess a valid Drivers’ License
- Candidate must have active TWIC card or be able to obtain a TWIC card. Information can be found at https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety Engineering, Occupational Safety, or related field
- 5-10 years of relevant field training/experience in a safety-related role.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to train, influence, and motivate workforce
- Strong computer skills including Excel, Word, and databases
- Solid people skills
- Experience working with a union hourly workforce
- Communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Able to work nights and/or weekends during maintenance turnarounds
- Able to work at heights including climbing ladders and enter permit required confined spaces
- Experience on an industrial fire brigade
- Prior experience in industrial settings, specifically in refineries
- ONLY CANDIDATES MEETING THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED
- FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR SALARY REQUIREMENTS
Martinez Refining Company LLC, a PBF Energy Subsidiary, offers our employees highly competitive total compensation and benefits packages. Benefits include:
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Pension Plan
- Medical, dental, vision plans and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life insurance, short- and long-term disability
- Paid Time Off, Paid Parental Leave and tuition reimbursement
- Additional voluntary benefits are offered at group discounts.
The salary range for this position is $92,846.05 - $164,756.20. The compensation range listed in this posting is in compliance with applicable state law. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, job-related skills and internal peer equity will be considered in determining the selected candidate’s compensation. In addition to salary, PBF offers a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
We thank all respondents for their interest in PBF Holding Company LLC (“PBF Energy”), however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please no phone calls or emails to any employee of PBF Energy about this requisition. Placement agencies or recruiters need not respond. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee of PBF Energy via email, the Internet or in any method without a valid written search agreement will be deemed the sole property of PBF Energy. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PBF Energy as a result of the referral or through other means.
