Technical Execution Center Engineering Lead-HAZOP

Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries • Huntington Beach, CA

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About The Position

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases is seeking an experienced Engineering Lead: Process Safety 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 position leads hazard studies, coordinates engineering safeguards, verifies closure of safety actions, supports design and commissioning reviews, and maintains global study methods, training, tools, and standards. Annual salary is $91,128–$170,032.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Safety Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 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, required 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; maintain 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.

What This Job Offers

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