Process Safety Engineer (Field Based)

ERM•Montreal, QC

18d•$114,400 - $185,120

About The Position

ERM is hiring a Process Safety Engineer in Charlottetown, PEI. 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. This is a full-time (40 hours per week) limited-term role with a duration of 2 months, extendable.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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 preferred

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