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Associate Director – Process Safety

Job in Burr Ridge, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Listing for: Linde plc
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-22
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Safety Engineer, Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Process Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • You will maintain alignment with corporate process safety goals. Assists support personnel and field personnel with the interpretation of and compliance with process safety requirements
  • Acutely aware of the highest risk issues andrelentlessly drives resolution with a strong sense of urgency and integrity. Champions and promotes a strong process safety culture
  • You have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Prepares and organizes written presentations, documentation and reports pertaining to process safety activities. Delivers keypresentations to senior management
  • Tracks and reports process safety leading and lagging indicators, key process safety metrics, action plans, and priorityrecommendations. Assists with identifying resources to support key activities
  • Identifies process safety improvement opportunities through interaction with all process safety stakeholders. Makes recommendations and justifies new tools and work process improvements. Ensures that process safety-related Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMPs), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs),engineering standards and guidelines are developed, reviewed and updatedas needed
  • You ensure that process safety deliverables are an integral part of project execution and management of change.

    Provides leadership to ensure that the quality and timing of project deliverables is acceptable. Ensures that appropriate management system sand information management tools are used to effectively manage process safety information
  • Ensures that adequate Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment procedures are in place and followed (includes PHA, LOPA,Facility Siting, Human Factors). Ensures that trained and qualifiedPHA facilitators and qualified team members participate in PHAs
  • You lead all key process safety incident investigations and Root Cause Analyses (RCA). Promotes a culture of transparency and seeks to understand underlying management system gaps and lack of operational discipline. Shares key learnings and follows up
  • You participate in key Pre-Startup Safety and Operational Readiness Reviews (PSSRs)
  • Ensures that adequate Management of Change (MOC) procedures are in place and followed
  • You will manage the LG&E PSM/RMP Assessment program and leadsor participates in key process safety assessments
  • Ensures that process safety training is developed and maintained. When appropriate, delivers process safety training.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the following:
  • Risk-Based Process Safety
  • PHA requirements and methodologies, Facility Siting and Human Factors
  • Process Safety Information, how PSI is used inoperating facilities, and how it should be maintained
  • Relief systems and how their entire life cycle is critical to process safety
  • Critical Safety Systems (CSS), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Safety Integrity Levels (SIL), and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and demonstrates an awareness of how these apply to LG&E'sbusiness
  • Management of Change (MOC) and its potential impact onprocess safety
  • Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR) and how and when theyare conducted
  • Operating Procedures required in process operations
  • Mechanical Integrity, the basic elements of amechanical integrity program, and how this program supports process safety
  • You have good overall knowledge of OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) regulation
  • Knowledge of various Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP) related to process safety
  • EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP)
  • How dispersion, fire and explosion modeling is used
  • Possesses the ability and willingness to:
  • You will analyze and understand process safety incidents withinindustry to identify opportunities for improvement within
  • Drives accountability at all organizational levels for process safety performance and risk reduction.
  • You will stay up to date with local, state and federal regulations that apply to facilities within
  • Promote a strong process safety culture where attitudes and behaviors support the goal of safer process operations
  • You will lead and participate in cross-functional teams
  • You will manage multiple priorities, drive issues to completion,and obtain results
  • Build and maintain productive relationships acrossdepartmental lines in a matrix organization
What makes you great
  • You have a Bachelor's Degree (preferably from an ABET-accreditedscience, engineering, or technology program). Comparable experience will be considered
  • You have experience managing a team
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience working with OSHA PSMand EPA RMP covered processes
  • You have a minimum of 5 years of experience conducting Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
  • Experience with incident investigations and the abilityto facilitate Root Cause Analyses
  • You are detail-oriented with an ability and desire to persevere
  • Maintains a positive attitude and is willing to quicklyadapt to changing situations
  • You are proficient
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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