Process Safety Professional
Listed on 2026-07-27
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Engineering
Safety Engineer, Process Engineer, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineer
An exciting career awaits you At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Leads process safety programs to ensure regulatory compliance with all elements of Process Safety Management (PSM)/Risk Management Plan (RMP), and conformance with external & internal standards.
- Advises on interpretation and application of internal and external standards, including Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP).
- Maintains and continuously improves local/ organization’s process safety standards/plans.
- Conducts, facilitates, and/or coordinates process safety hazard risk identification and mitigation activities, including facility siting, PHA (Process Hazard Analysis), LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis), Management of Change (MOC), and risk calibration.
- Collaborates with facility personnel to ensure process safety recommendations are closed adequately in a timely manner.
- Interacts frequently with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering personnel and others to help resolve process safety issues and instill a healthy process safety culture.
- Communicates, elevates, and mitigates process safety risks as appropriate.
- Identifies, develops, and delivers training on process safety to stakeholders.
- Leads/participates in incident investigations, root cause analyses and reporting.
- Critically reviews investigation root causes and recommendations and challenges the organization to learn from incidents and prevent recurrence.
- Conducts and/or validates process safety leak calculations and categorization with industry standards.
- Tracks and analyzes process safety metrics to identify trends, strengths, and improvement opportunities.
- Develops reports to effectively communicate metrics and trends.
- Leads and coordinates conformance and compliance audits and assurance activities for process safety.
- Supports facilities with regulatory inspection and/or enforcement actions.
- Participates in specialty industry groups to share and learn good process safety practices, advocates for sound regulations or updates to industry standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Petroleum or related); OR, Bachelor's degree in HES-related field with no relevant years of experience; OR, High School diploma or GED with 5 years of relevant experience in a process industry (e.g., refining, midstream or petrochemical).
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Petroleum or related) with at least 2 years of relevant years of experience; OR, Bachelor’s degree in HES related-field with at least 5 years of relevant experience in a process industry; OR, High School diploma or GED with 10 years of relevant experience in a process industry.
- Working knowledge and experience implementing process safety elements
- General understanding and application of the process, process hazards, corrosion mechanisms and safeguards for the type of facility/unit(s) assigned
- Understands and applies qualitative and quantitative process safety risk evaluation methods on simple scenarios and processes (e.g. MOC, PHA, LOPA, risk calibration, facility siting)
- Understands PSM and RMP regulatory requirements as well as industry recommended practices related to process safety
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Location:
Catlettsburg, Kentucky Additional locations:
Job Requisition : Location Address: 11631 US Route 23
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