Technical Execution Center Engineering Lead-HAZOP

Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries•Huntington Beach, CA
•$91,128 - $170,032

About The Position

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases is seeking an experienced process-safety Engineering Lead for its Technical Delivery Team. The TEC Engineering Lead- HAZOP provides global technical leadership for process-safety studies and engineering safeguards under the Head of TEC’s HAZOP Framework. The role maintains consistent study methods, action closure, and records from proposals through commissioning. Company occupational-safety responsibilities remain with CE&IG Safety. The successful candidate combines hazard-study facilitation and engineering judgment with clear technical communication, translating safety requirements into practical design decisions. The annual salary range is $91,128–$170,032.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Safety Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • At least 8 years of engineering and process-safety experience, preferably in energy, chemical processing, industrial gas, or high-hazard industries.
  • Demonstrated experience leading HAZOP and HAZID studies and assessing hazards, risks, and engineered safeguards.
  • Ability to review process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), control philosophies, cause-and-effect diagrams, and other safety documentation.
  • Knowledge of applicable engineering codes, standards, and safety regulations.
  • Strong multidisciplinary coordination, technical writing, presentation, and facilitation skills.
  • Willingness to travel as required.
  • Experience applying management-of-change processes and verifying documented closure of hazard-study actions.

Nice To Haves

  • Professional Engineer (PE) or equivalent engineering credential; CCPSC, CFSE, TÜV Functional Safety Engineer, or comparable certification.
  • Experience with SIL verification, quantitative risk or consequence modeling, and inherently safer design.
  • Experience with hydrogen, energy storage, renewable fuels, carbon capture, or other emerging clean-energy technologies.
  • Experience with PHA software, commissioning/start-up, and developing corporate process-safety practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead HAZOP, HAZID, What-If, FMEA, LOPA, and Bowtie studies for the approved product scope.
  • Confirm design maturity, study scope, documents, and participants; maintain competent facilitators, recorders, and SIL evaluators under the Head of TEC’s framework.
  • Assess credible hazards, consequences, likelihood, and safeguards; coordinate alarms, interlocks, shutdown, relief, and detection systems; and verify safety-instrumented risk reduction with technical owners.
  • Assign action owners, priorities, and dates; verify closure evidence; and escalate unresolved safety actions before project milestones.
  • Complete internal HAZOP and major action closure before customer HAZOP, retain engineering-team continuity where practical, and preserve controlled study records.
  • Support design, constructability, commissioning-readiness, and management-of-change reviews, including reviews of new technology and operating procedures.
  • Provide proposal safety requirements, exceptions, effort, and risk inputs.
  • Coordinate applicable process-safety, fire, electrical, and environmental requirements with engineering owners and CE&IG Safety; support permitting within the assigned scope.
  • Maintain global study methods, training, tools, and rolling two-year standards plans; obtain formal TEC approvals before Product Center release and incorporate operating and project lessons.
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