Lead Process Safety Engineer

Oryx GTL

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Ref: GP570-240

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Function Strategy Formulation:
- Compile a process safety management policy and implement the respective strategy for ORYX GTL.
- Design, develop and continuously review custom developed leading and lagging process safety indicators applicable to the operations of ORYX GTL.

Technical Process Safety knowledge and skills:
- Review and identify significant process safety risks in all areas of ORYX GTL operations, in order to mitigate the impact and volume.
- Advise ORYX GTL management on the most appropriate process safety technology and best practices to address significant process safety risks within ORYX GTL.
- Lead HAZOP teams for new projects or changes to existing facilities or processes.
- Conduct GAP analysis on ORYX GTL process safety system elements and documentation as per requirements of US OSHA 1910.119 PSM Rule, in order to identify areas of improvement.
- Implement and continuously improve the RBPSMS.
- Assist top management with the establishment and promotion of a Risk Based Process Safety Culture within ORYX GTL.
- Review and approve the design of new facilities to ensure that they comply with legislation as well design requirements adopted by ORYX GTL.
- Approve MoC’s prior to implementation.
- Provide the required input for the compilation of an effective emergency preparedness plan such as potential failures/ process safety scenarios etc.
- Continuously review, optimize and simplify the existing Management of Change process.
- Establish a common understanding of important processes such as Root Cause Analysis and PDA’s and compile work standards for such processes.
- Conduct investigations on process safety related incidents and report areas of improvement, advicing on waya sto mitigate risks.
- Enforce ORYX GTL’s Risk Based Process Safety Management System.
- Schedule and execute of regular process safety audits on ORYX GTL processes and systems.

Reliability engineering:
- Recommend and design the Safety Integrity Levels (SIL’s) applicable to the specific process conditions.
- Provide recommendations on the Layers of Protection required to effectively manage high risks.

Process Safety Training and Awareness:
- Develop effective process safety and awareness training programs for ORYX GTL.
- Promote transfer of best practices through the attendance of conferences.

Requirements

- Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering.
- Certificates/Diploma in Process Safety Management.
- 6 - 8 years in a Process Safety Management on a Petrochemical Plant.
- Execution of Quantitative Process Safety Risk assessments.

Job Specific Skills:
- Knowledge of available modelling techniques to evaluate the process safety risk associated with a petrochemical plant.
- Process safety engineering skills which is required to solve/ address complex process safety related risks.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to act as a team leader.
- Ability to identify, observe and analyse critical process safety riks on a petrochemical plant.
- The ability to commence, proceed, follow through critical projects on a high risk Petro Chemical plant.
- Ability to initiate, follow-up and follow through complicated projects.

About the Company

Rising from the desert with great speed and efficiency is the gas to liquids production facility, ORYX GTL, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum (51%) and Sasol of South Africa (49%). The first of a series of planned GTL production facilities that will deliver on the declared ambition of the State of Qatar to become the GTL capital of the world.

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