Environmental Health & Safety Process Engineer

Agilent Technologies•Charlottetown, PE

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About The Position

The Process Safety Engineer is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining Process Safety Management (PSM) programs to ensure the safe design, operation, and modification of processes that handle hazardous materials. This role ensures regulatory compliance, reduces operational risk, and drives continuous improvement by leading hazard analyses, supporting Management of Change (MOC) activities, overseeing mechanical integrity programs, and managing the closure of process safety action items, while ensuring alignment with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements. The engineer applies ASME and API codes and standards to support mechanical integrity, equipment design reviews, inspection planning, and compliance with process safety and GMP expectations, partnering with operations, engineering, EHS, and leadership to prevent catastrophic incidents and protect people, assets, and the environment. As a global leader in laboratory and clinical technologies, Agilent is passionate about bringing great science to life. Their commitment to quality and innovation supports cutting-edge life science research, patient diagnostics, and ensures the safety of water, food, and pharmaceuticals. As scientists and clinicians pursue small, everyday advances and life-changing discoveries, Agilent provides trusted answers to their most critical questions and challenges. Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, they create advanced instruments, software, and consumables supported by teams of highly skilled and knowledgeable people. With 18,000 employees around the world, their global reach and comprehensive solutions provide the most reliable and accurate results, as well as optimal scientific, economic, and operational outcomes. Agilent works collaboratively with customers on their journey to make a real difference in human lives. Their culture is founded on trust, respect, and uncompromising integrity, and they pride themselves on being a dynamic and inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and fosters innovation.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (chemical, mechanical or related)
2+ years’ experience facilitating and leading process hazard analysis
5+ years’ experience applying the principles of process safety
5+ years’ experience with hazard identification and risk assessment techniques
Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a GMP environment
Demonstrated ability to lead a team

Nice To Haves

PEng certification
Process hazard analysis certification
Strong understanding of thermodynamics, reactions, fluid flow
Hazardous properties of chemicals (including dust hazards)
Ability to collaborate across operation, maintenance and management
Strong documentation skills
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Technical knowledge of PHA software
Experience with PHA works software

Responsibilities

Facilitate process hazard analysis (PHA), hazard operability studies (HAZOPs), what-if/checklist, failure mode and effects analysis (FEMA), including facility siting and human factors.
Identify worst-case scenarios, recommend safeguards and risk reduction
Support asset integrity and reliability.
Work with engineering to ensure critical equipment (pressure vessels, piping, relief systems, controls) is designed to the appropriate code/standard, properly inspected, tested and maintained.
Help define inspection intervals and acceptance criteria, analyze equipment failures and near-misses.
Management of change program, review changes to equipment, chemicals, operating conditions procedure or software.
Ensure safety impacts are assessed before changes are implanted, verify training, documentation and safeguards are updated.
Conduct, support pre-startup safety reviews and pre-qualification walkdowns, including review process safety information, and managing action- items
Support, develop, review, operating procedures & safe work practices, and permit systems (hot work, confined space, line breaking)
Support, investigate incidents, near-misses, and abnormal events.
Perform root cause analysis, recommend corrective and preventative actions, track actions to completions
Ensure compliance with regulations and recommended practices by using Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS), prepare for inspections and audits, maintain required process safety documentation.
Encourage and support employee commitment to process safety with training, operation, engineering and personnel on process hazards.
Reinforce process safety culture (learning from incidents, stopping unsafe work).
Help employees understand why certain system systems exist.
Consider risk management and safeguard effectiveness.
Evaluate layers of protection (alarms and interlocks, reliefs systems, administrative controls, emergency response)
Additional duties as assigned, based on business needs