Process Safety Engineer BC

Process Safety Engineer - Prince George, BC About Us

Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd. is a publicly listed, diversified energy infrastructure company with an integrated value chain across the North American natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil, refined product, and renewable space. Its strategy is to profitably grow and create shareholder value through the acquisition and development of oil and gas infrastructure. Tidewater plans to achieve its business objective by providing customers with a full service, vertically integrated value chain, including gas plants, pipelines, railcars, export terminals, storage, downstream facilities, and various renewable initiatives.

Tidewater has an immediate opening for a Process Safety Engineer reporting to the Superintendent, Engineering. This is a full-time position based in Prince George, BC. The PG Refinery Process Safety Engineer will provide engineering expertise and leadership in process safety management and loss prevention, including the governance, sustainment, and promotion of related processes and methodologies and by fostering a continuous improvement culture.

This role is expected to use a ‘hands‑on’ site‑based approach coupled with active engagement and collaboration to integrate participation of management, engineering, safety, operations, and maintenance teams.

• Develop, implement, and sustain the refinery process safety management (PSM) system and related process safety and loss prevention programs, processes, audits, and documentation.
• Manage refinery process safety and loss prevention standards, and procedures and ensure that these are aligned and consistently applied.
• Support relationship management, inspection activities, audits, and information requests involving regulators and insurance underwriters in relation to PSM and loss prevention.
• Facilitate and arrange process hazards analyses (e.g. HAZOP), studies, and risk analyses.
• Assess technical process and engineering risks to reduce potential for incidents.
• Provide input to engineering specifications regarding PSM and loss prevention requirements.
• Implement key performance indicators to support continuous improvement of the refinery’s process safety and loss prevention performance.
• Participate in new projects and proposed facility modifications to ensure conformance with process safety and loss prevention codes, standards, and procedures.
• Educate refinery personnel in loss prevention and PSM industry standards and best practices.
• Provide operational support by troubleshooting process safety issues and leading or participating in incident investigations.

• Process hazard analysis (PHA) methods training and demonstrable experience, including HAZOP, LOPA, HazID, and SIL study.
• Successful completion of Center of Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Courses such as Risk Assessment, Process Safety Boot Camp, Inherently Safer Design, Chemical Process Safety in Chemical Process Industries would be an asset.
• Experience with supporting operational management of change (MOC) processes is preferred.
• Working knowledge of process safety management and loss prevention industry standards.
• Proven verbal and written communication skills.
• Facilitation, collaboration, and people skills.
• Time management, multitasking and workload prioritization skills.
• Organization, logistical management, and analytical skills.
• Computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook).
• Previous gas processing or oil refining operational experience is preferred.
• Previous demonstrable leadership experience would be an asset.

• Engineering degree from an accredited university in an industrial discipline.
• Chemical or Mechanical engineering area of practice is preferred.
• Eligible for immediate registration with EGBC or APEGA as a Professional Engineer.
• 5 years of related process engineering or process safety engineering experience in an industrial setting.
• Valid driver’s license.

Compensation:

• We offer a competitive compensation package including an attractive base salary, short‑term and long‑term…