Global SHES Manager - Chemical

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Job Summary The Global SHES Manager – Chemicals is the technical authority and driving force behind the implementation of Process Safety Management (PSM) across Austin Powder. The position leads the deployment, standardization, and continuous improvement of process safety across the company's chemical manufacturing footprint, ensuring that hazardous processes are designed, operated, maintained, and changed under a disciplined management system that protects people, assets, communities, and the environment.

The position provides global SHES support to the ammonium nitrate (AN), ammonia, and nitric acid plants, and extends that support to explosives and emulsion plants whenever the subject matter touches any of the fourteen OSHA PSM elements. The Manager is expected to set the standard, challenge the status quo, and lead technical decisions with authority rather than wait for direction.

This role requires demonstrated mastery of process safety in chemical operations and the credibility to influence plant managers, engineers, and executives across multiple countries and regulatory regimes.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS This position reports directly to the Global Director of Safety, Health, Environment and Security, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the President of Manufacturing. The Manager works closely with plant managers, process and project engineering, operations leadership, and regional and local SHES managers worldwide.

PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT (PSM)
Own and drive the global PSM program across all sites handling highly hazardous chemicals, covering the fourteen OSHA PSM elements and their international equivalents.

Establish, implement, and sustain the corporate PSM standard, defining minimum requirements, roles, timelines, and verification methods for every covered process.

Drives the building and maintenance of Process Safety Information (PSI): chemical hazard data, process technology, block flow and process flow diagrams, P&IDs, design codes and standards, relief system design basis, electrical classification, ventilation, and safe operating limits.

Lead, facilitate, and quality-assure Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) using HAZOP, What-If, FMEA, LOPA, and bow-tie methodologies, and drive closure of recommendations to completion rather than to acknowledgement.

Direct the Management of Change (MOC) and Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) processes for chemical assets, ensuring no change reaches startup without documented technical review.

Lead the definition of requirements for mechanical integrity programs, including inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance of critical equipment, instrumented protective systems, and relief devices.

Overview operating procedures, safe work practices, hot work controls, contractor management, and employee participation requirements consistent with PSM expectations.

Drive and support process safety incident investigations, including root cause analysis of loss-of-containment events, near misses, and high-potential occurrences, and ensure learnings are shared globally.

Conduct and drive PSM compliance audits and technical assessments at AN, ammonia, nitric acid, explosives, and emulsion plants, verifying corrective action effectiveness rather than completion alone.

Lead compliance with REGAGEPS and applicable regional process safety and major accident hazard regulations, advising leadership on their operational impact.

Define and track leading and lagging process safety metrics, reporting performance and program maturity to senior leadership.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Serve as global SHES technical reference for the AN, ammonia, and nitric acid plants, , and for explosives and emulsion plants on process safety matters.

Support new plant projects, expansions, and modifications from concept through commissioning, embedding inherently safer design and process safety requirements at the earliest stage.

Develop and deliver technical training that raises process safety competence among operators, technicians, engineers, and site leadership.

Drive SHES data collection, analysis, and reporting for chemical operations, and maintain process safety content within the corporate EHS software platform.

Participate actively in corporate SHES governance forums, including Safety Focus Meetings, and represent process safety in operational and capital…