Senior Process Safety Professional

SUMMARY

The MPLX Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquid (NG & NGL) Services Process Safety Department is seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual eager to take on technical and leadership growth opportunities in process safety. We are looking for candidates who excel in collaborating with diverse teams, possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and thrive in a dynamic team environment.

• Ensure regulatory compliance and conformance with various elements of Process Safety Management (PSM), and external & internal process safety related standards. Advises on interpretation and application of internal and external standards. Maintain and continuously improve local/organization’s process safety plans.
• Provide engineering support and technical guidance related to equipment and process design that meets industry codes and standards from organizations (i.e., Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices). Able to use project engineering principles and economic analyses to help justify, plan and budget for process safety risk reduction projects.
• Lead and/or provide engineering support and technical guidance in incident investigations, hazard identification, facility siting modeling, PHA (Process Hazard Analysis), LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis), relief studies, and dispersion modeling. Able to challenge technical assumptions and validate most likely consequences and risk categorizations, ensuring these process safety studies are technically sound and meet internal and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineers to develop intermediate and permanent mitigations to close process safety recommendations/risks, and ensures recommendations are closed in a timely manner. Able to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate risks and propose viable mitigation measures with appropriate risk reduction factors.
• Interact frequently with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering personnel at their assigned PSM facilities/organizations to build rapport with the personnel and to be aware of and assist with resolving process safety issues. Communicate, elevate, and mitigate process safety risks, as appropriate.
• Identify, develop, and deliver training on process safety management and related topics to stakeholders including technical aspects of process safety such as PHA/LOPA/IPLs, facility siting, dispersion modeling, etc.
• Conduct and/or validate process safety leak calculations and categorization. Analyze process safety metrics to identify trends, strengths, and improvement opportunities. Develop dashboards and report to effectively communicate metrics and trends.
• Support and/or lead audits and assurance activities for process safety. Supports facilities with regulatory inspection and/or enforcement actions. Able to assess not just basic compliance and conformance, but also the quality of the process safety safeguards and inherent process safety risks.
• Participate in specialty industry groups to share and learn good process safety practices, advocate for sound regulations or to influence the development/modification of industry standards.

• High school diploma or GED required with fifteen (15) years of relevant experience within a process industry (e.g., refining, midstream or petrochemical), or Bachelor’s degree in a HES-related field, Engineering degree, or advanced degree with seven (7) years relevant experience in a process industry.
• Detailed knowledge and experience implementing multiple Process Safety elements.
• Detailed understanding of the process, process hazards, corrosion mechanisms and safeguards for the type of facility/unit(s) assigned.
• Skilled in conducting, facilitating and/or applying qualitative and quantitative process safety risk evaluations (e.g., MOC, PHA, LOPA, risk calibration, dispersion modeling, facility siting, etc.).
• Detailed knowledge of the PSM and RMP regulatory requirements and interpretations, as well as industry recommended practices related to process safety.
• Driver's License Required.

Up to 50% within assigned New Mexico/West Texas region area.

Midland, Texas

Additional locations:
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