Site Process Safety Management Lead

IFF•Memphis, TN

About The Position

Each site is responsible to identify, understand, and control the hazards inherent in its process. This is done to prevent serious process-related incidents which might affect plant personnel, off-site communities, the environment, or result in significant property loss or loss of business. It involves the application of systems and controls to chemical and manufacturing processes and is a part of everyone’s job. The Site PSM leader leads the site’s efforts to accomplish this responsibility via the PSM committee.

Requirements

Engineering or chemistry degree or equivalent technical degree or experience
Five (5) years ATO/R&D/Technical Consultant, Process Engineer or SHE related experience.
Strong broad working knowledge of PSM elements, detailed program requirements within a wide range of EHS standards
Working knowledge of regulations applicable to process safety (examples NFPA, OSHA)
Experience with Root Cause Failure Analysis
Experience with Hazards Assessments (ex PHA)
Strong demonstration of principle based behaviors
Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
Strong networking skills and capabilities
PC skills – intranet and Window Applications
Meeting design and facilitation skills
Attention to details with persistence to drive continuous improvement

Responsibilities

Ensuring the overall site PSM program conforms to the IFF standards, and local, regional, and country regulations
Ensure each site process is adequately reviewed and classified as either HPSR or BPSR
Periodically reviewing the site’s PSM Manual for content per corporate and regulatory guidelines.
Driving PSM culture improvements and ensuring broad participation and active involvement of all employees and operating areas in all elements of PSM.
Coordinating PSM activites on multi-SBU sites , including dissemination of PSM related information and communications from the global PSM Competency Center , SBU Process Safety Technical Leads, and/or SBU SHE Manager.
Authoring and revising Site PSM policies to comply with IFF standards, local, regional, and country regulations, and training site on those polices.
Maintaining oversight for site PSM initial and refresher training programs
Conducting/lead regular meetings of the site PSM committee to develop annual accountabilities and to develop programs to accomplish these accountabilities
Maintaining a site database or other means to retain PSM committee documents, actions, issues, meeting minutes and accomplishments
Maintaining Site PSM KPIs, tracking performance to these, and reporting these to the Site and PSM / EHS Corporate team.
Leading the development and attainment of site annual PSM Critical Operating Tasks (COT’s)
Providing periodic review of site PSM performance (leading indicators ) with the Site Manager and Leadership Team
Provides expertise and input to the line organization on proper scoring and classification of PSM related incidents
Ensuring Continual improvement in the process safety system and performance.
Providing technical support to PSM relevant capital improvements, including authoring basic data package development, conducting trials of new equipment, and overseeing right to operate (RTO) activities.
Providing training and mentoring of PSM spoke leaders in overall process safety management and process safety auditing.
Developing and applying a site level Management of Change- Personnel process involving changes to PSM Element leaders
Participating in the SBU PSM Network including issuing periodic site summary reports and networking
Help ensure the site is adequately prepared for a second party PSM audit or regulatory inspection of process safety management procedures, compliance and documentation.