Process Safety Manager

OxyChem • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Process Safety Manager leads Process Safety and Process Risk Management across OxyChem manufacturing sites, protecting employees, the environment, customers, and surrounding communities. The role oversees development and execution of OxyChem’s Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Plan (RMP), and Responsible Care programs and serves as a technical expert in process risk, hazard analysis, and mechanical integrity. Working with site leadership and HES&S teams, the position supports regulatory compliance, safe project execution, and risk mitigation across plant operations and capital projects.

The position also provides technical support, training, audits, investigations, and risk assessments for manufacturing sites; maintains corporate PSM procedures and program databases; and represents OxyChem in external process-risk organizations. Travel up to 30% is required. The role includes physical activity such as lifting up to 40 pounds, climbing ladders and stairs, walking, bending, and stooping, and requires use of personal protective equipment, including a respirator.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering required; another engineering discipline may be considered based on relevant experience.
• 10 years of plant process, maintenance, or project engineering experience required.
• In-depth knowledge of OSHA, RMP, Responsible Care, and other industry standards related to process safety management.
• Organized, analytical, and outcome-focused, with the ability to manage complex projects.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with executives and technical teams.
• Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to lift 40 pounds, climb ladders and stairs, walk, bend, and stoop as required.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment, including a respirator.
• Ability to respond to visual and audible alarms.

Nice To Haves

• Specialized training in National Consensus Standards.
• Experience in fire protection, loss prevention, risk analysis, process safety systems, and critical process-related equipment.
• Experience in hazard analysis, including HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, consequence modeling, and risk analysis.

Responsibilities

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of employees, customers, and communities as the highest priority.
• Establish, develop, and implement Process Safety Management, Risk Management Plan, and Responsible Care programs at OxyChem manufacturing sites.
• Manage Process Risk capital project reviews from conceptual design through commissioning, including reviews involving process safety, risk engineering, fire protection systems, hazard management, and critical process-related equipment.
• Serve as a Process Risk technical expert for manufacturing sites on the design, operation, repair, and maintenance of critical process-related equipment, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and suitability-for-service expectations.
• Apply consequence modeling and risk-analysis tools and methods, including hazard and operability studies, layers of protection analysis, fault/event-tree analysis, bow-tie analysis, quantitative risk assessment, building risk assessment, and individual and societal risk curves.
• Provide Process Risk training to manufacturing sites on subjects such as process hazard analysis, facility siting, incident investigation, management of change, mechanical integrity, and fixed fire protection inspection, testing, and design.
• Lead in-depth Process Risk studies and assessments with site Process Risk Engineers, including facility reviews, PHAs, facility siting studies, human-factor reviews, inherently safer process reviews, risk registers, risk matrices, and critical equipment reviews.
• Apply working knowledge of mechanical integrity programs for tanks, vessels, piping, rotating equipment, and instrumentation.
• Assist manufacturing sites during property insurance audits and reviews.
• Participate in HES&S audits at manufacturing sites, evaluating compliance with OxyChem programs, policies, and procedures in Process Safety Management.
• Validate that Process Risk audit action items have been appropriately addressed and that supporting documentation is submitted for closure.
• Apply extensive knowledge of Management of Change policies and implementation.
• Oversee facility investigations of critical process-related equipment, fire, explosion, and process safety-related incidents.
• Help keep OxyChem Corporate PSM procedures up to date.
• Represent OxyChem on Process Risk-related issues in external organizations, including Baker Risk Explosion Research Cooperative, ASME, CCPS, AIChE, CMA, API, and NFPA.
• Support the development of laws, regulations, and standards intended to safeguard the community, workplace, and environment.
• Manage the OxyFire Fire Protection Impairments, High Risk Task Force Metrics, and Risk Profile databases.
• Support other HES&S Department personnel and contribute to the annual department budget.

What This Job Offers

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