Process Safety Engineer

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As a Process Safety Engineer supporting work within ExxonMobil’s Technology and Engineering Company, you provide engineering leadership in various aspects of Process Safety to our business divisions, with a mission towards providing engineering and risk management solutions for ExxonMobil’s operating facilities around the world, to ensure safe and reliable operations.

Based in Bengaluru, you will be a part of our community of Process Safety Engineers located around the world, including our team of Process Safety discipline experts in our Spring Campus headquarters. You will be equipped with the required skills and knowledge, and thereby also expected to be able to work across geographic restrictions, and leverage on the strength and experience of others within our company, to ensure that we deliver maximum value to our business line partners.

Your primary role would be as a Process Safety Engineer designated to work remotely with Manufacturing/Production Sites.

The position involves aspects of process safety engineering such as explosion effects analysis and facility siting, pressure relief/disposal system adequacy, consequence analysis, dispersion modeling, fire protection, hazard identification (e.g. HAZOP or similar), risk analysis (LOPA, Event Tree Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Availability Target setting), as well as safety in design and management of change evaluations.

Process Safety Engineers are also expected to engage with risk owners within the business lines, and partner with the relevant stakeholders to arrive at sound risk management decisions regarding process safety concerns at their facilities.

Specific deliverables may include.

• Applying ExxonMobil and Industry Safety in Design Standards and requirements in change reviews at existing production facilities and greenfield/ brownfield projects, in areas of concern such as;
  • Equipment overpressure, over-temperature scenarios.
  • Managing reaction hazards
  • Preventive and Mitigative safeguards for Major Accident scenarios
• Facilitating Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies and executing other project deliverables.
• Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Screenings and Assessments.
• Consequence Modelling using PHAST and other applicable industry methods
• Vapor Cloud Explosion Consequence and Risk analysis
• Defining fire protection design requirements for different equipment types including Fire & Gas Mapping
• Capital Project Support including development and deployment of Project Risk Assessment and Management Plans (PRAMP) which may include the above activities applied along the Project Management System timelines.

You are expected to be reasonably mobile in this job role and be available to travel to our other facilities around the world as needed to facilitate and complete the necessary tasks and reviews.

DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

Within this career path, there are opportunities available to you to deepen your expertise in specific Process Safety Engineering disciplines such as Consequence Modelling, Toxic Hazard Management, Fire Protection, Safety Relief etc., and grow your career towards being a Subject Matter Expert.

Additionally, where business needs and career interests align, you may be offered with job progression opportunities beyond your current skillsets and experience, into other areas such as Process Design, Risk Management, as well as roles embedded within our Manufacturing/Production operations etc.

Skills and Qualifications.  

• Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or petroleum engineering or Process Safety Engineering or equivalent field from a recognized university
• Minimum of total 5 years relevant working experience in petrochemical, oil and gas industry in Technical, Operations, Process Design, or Engineering functions.
• At least 3 years of experience in specific Process Safety Engineering job roles. 
• Demonstrated competency and experience in the following areas:
  • Hazard identification, risk analysis and assessment methodologies (e.g. Hazard Identification (HAZID), Inherent SHE Review, PHAs)
  • Knowledgeable in industry codes, standards and practices relevant to process design and safety (e.g. ASME, API, NFPA, ANSI, IEC etc.) and Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP)
  • Risk scenario development techniques, including various methods of risk analysis.
  • Good working knowledge of engineering software tools such as PHAST, PHA-Pro, Hysys, Flarenet, FlareSim, Pipenet/AFT is an advantage.
• Prior experience of working within an Oil & Gas manufacturing/production facility is preferred
• Willingness to work full-time from Bengaluru based office location
• Willingness to work in shifts (1.30 PM – 10.30 PM IST) or (9:00 AM -6:00 PM IST)

Process Safety Engineers within ExxonMobil are also expected to exhibit strong behavioral competencies such as:

• Engineering curiosity and initiative to capture opportunities and deliver value.
• Willing to go above and beyond base expectations to achieve superior business result
• Strong intuition to understand what matters most, and critical thinking and deep analytical skills, to be able to identify and understand core issues and opportunities.
• Courage of conviction and ability to make sound decisions. Able to focus on what is right.
• Strong communicator, and able to positively influence decision makers to act.
• Competing-to-win mindset. Be able to prioritize integrated business goals over individual targets, and able to collaboration across boundaries, to leverage strength of the organization to maximize value.

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance and life. We offer you: 

• Competitive compensation 
• Medical plans, maternity leave and benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment benefits 
• Retirement benefits 
• Global networking & cross-functional opportunities
• Annual vacations & holidays
• Day care assistance program
• Training and development program
• Tuition assistance program
• Workplace flexibility policy
• Relocation program
• Transportation facility

Please note benefits may change from time to time without notice, subject to applicable laws. The benefits programs are based on the Company’s eligibility guidelines. 

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