Engineer, Process Safety

Freeport LNG • Freeport, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Process Safety Engineer reports directly to the Process Safety Manager and drives process safety and risk programs in collaboration with the process safety group and other functions at Freeport LNG. The role covers process hazard analysis, pre-startup safety reviews, assurance, and process safety risk management. It interfaces with personnel across the organization, including field staff, superintendents, and managers, and promotes understanding of Process Safety Management elements and barrier-thinking concepts. The position helps ensure key performance indicators are visible, measured, and monitored.

The engineer provides technical analysis and support across operated assets, projects, and facilities to identify hazards, assess risks, and develop effective risk controls. The role supports hazard studies, management of change, incident investigations, process safety information review, audits, assurance, relief-design-basis analysis, and the development of process safety standards and practices. It also helps track recommendations and actions through completion and contributes to a disciplined process safety and HSE culture.

The position is based in Freeport, Texas. Work may involve travel to other company locations and movement throughout office, site, and facility areas. Physical expectations include lifting up to 20 pounds, standing, walking, sitting for a full shift, handling files and equipment, and potentially working at elevated heights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of process safety experience.
• At least 7 years of LNG, chemical, or plant experience.
• Sensitivity to process safety issues in complex hydrocarbon-processing operations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with personnel at lower organizational levels and with individuals and groups from different disciplines and industries.
• Some knowledge of industry standards, best practices, and methodologies for process safety and risk management.
• Limited knowledge of incident management and investigation practices.
• Some understanding of process safety risk and consequence-modeling software, such as PHAST or FLACS.
• Ability to interpret and apply consequence and QRA results.
• Awareness of plant or manufacturing operations.
• Good written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Visio, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to understand and manage basic issues and communicate them effectively across the organization and with third parties.
• Commitment to process safety and the company’s continued safe operations.
• Ability to work with culturally diverse business and technical teams and establish mutually respectful relationships with management, peers, and facility-level workers.
• Health, safety, and environmental knowledge.
• Experience with hazard identification, risk analysis, and assessment methodologies such as HAZOP, What-If, LOPA, and JSA.
• Knowledge of industry codes, standards, and practices relevant to process design and safety, such as ASME, API, NFPA, ANSI, and RAGAGEP.
• Limited knowledge of EPA Risk Management Planning (RMP).
• Functional knowledge of SAP HSE Roles and Responsibilities (HSE) Management System.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds; stand, walk, sit, handle or feel objects, reach, and move throughout office, site, and facility locations; and drive to other company work locations as required.
• Visual acuity corrected to perform job functions, including close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to perform job functions for a full shift and potentially work at elevated heights.

Nice To Haves

• At least 5 years of process safety experience.
• At least 10 years of LNG, chemical, or plant experience.
• Experience with LNG or cryogenic plant operations and associated risks.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and technical analysis to identify hazards, evaluate related risks, and assist in developing risk-control solutions at company-operated assets.
• Advance the identification, assessment, tracking, communication, and management of process safety risks.
• Drive alignment of process safety risk registers across assets.
• Support or scribe process hazard analyses, including HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, and What-If studies, and other risk assessments.
• Support the Management of Change process, ensuring risks are identified and managed and that PHAs and PSSRs are adequate.
• Participate in multidisciplinary incident investigations.
• Support assets and coordinate reviews of Process Safety Information.
• Provide engineering and technical input for developing or revising process safety standards, procedures, guidelines, and plans to meet industry or regulatory requirements.
• Use the action-tracking system to enter appropriate actions.
• Analyze relief-design basis and present the analysis for review by Senior Engineers.
• Support audit and assurance activities through data collection and coordination with the FLNG Audit Lead or Principal Auditor.
• Ensure recommendations from investigations, MOCs, PHAs, risk assessments, and other process safety reviews are addressed with sound engineering solutions and formally tracked to completion.
• Provide process safety technical support to development and expansion projects, including stage-gate reviews, facility and building siting, and QRA.
• Support development of safe operating and engineering practices at company assets that incorporate process safety.
• Perform routine audits to support a continuous-improvement culture in PSM.
• Apply engineering expertise to identify hazards, evaluate risks, and assist with risk-control solutions.
• Comprehend design specifications, standards, and process safety information.
• Communicate clearly in verbal and written form and conduct efficient meetings.
• Analyze, trend, and assess data sets to make or comment on formal recommendations.
• Participate actively in the PSM and HSE Management System Policies and prioritize HSE concerns in activities within the area of responsibility.
• Implement and perform routine inspections to ensure safe operating conditions.
• Foster a disciplined process safety management culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level