Process Safety Engineer

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What role you will play in our team

• As a Process Safety Engineer, you will be part of our exciting and rapidly expanding Bengaluru Process Safety team, working with our various business lines, collaborating with our community of Process Safety discipline experts and senior technical professionals around the world to deliver engineering excellence.
• You will 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.
• You will be equipped with the required skills and knowledge, and thereby also expected to be able to work across geographic boundaries, and leverage on the strength and experience of others within our organization, to ensure that we deliver maximum value to our business line partners

What you will do

• The position involves delivering at the highest technical quality assurance level, engineering solutions to manage our
  most concerning risk scenarios.
• You are expected to utilize your competencies in 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.
• Collaborate and engage with risk owners within the business lines, and partner with the relevant stakeholders to arrive at effective risk management decisions regarding -process safety concerns at their facilities.
• Lead and implement ExxonMobil and industry safety in design standards and requirements in change reviews at existing production facilities and greenfield/ brownfield projects, to manage process safety concerns in areas such as equipment overpressure, over-temperature scenarios, reaction hazards & defining preventive and mitigative safeguards for Major Accident scenarios.
• Specific deliverables may also include.
  o Lead Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) studies and executing other project deliverables.
  o Develop and execute quantitative and qualitative risk screenings and assessments.
  o Develop Consequence Modelling using PHAST and other applicable industry methods
  o Conduct Vapor Cloud Explosion Consequence and Risk analysis
  o Defining fire protection design requirements for different equipment types including Fire & Gas Mapping and reviewing new fire protection system designs.
  o Provide capital project engineering support including development and deployment of Project Risk Assessment and Management Plans (RAMP) which may include completing various loss prevention and process safety deliverables throughout the project’s timeline.
• Develop and champion team’s capability development plans and strategy, to effectively deliver on process safety and risk management business needs across multiple business lines.
• This role would require that you be able to work during non-standard office work hours, collaborating with multiple stakeholders across different time zones, to deliver on the above range of activities.
• You are expected to be reasonably mobile in this job role and be available to travel to other ExxonMobil /third-party owned facilities around the world as needed to facilitate and complete the necessary tasks and reviews.

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related Petroleum Engineering field

• Minimum 7 years relevant working experience in petrochemical, oil and gas industry in Technical, Operations, Consultancy, Process Design, or Engineering functions.

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in specific Process Safety Engineering/Loss Prevention and Risk Engineering job roles.

• Proven expertise in at least one of the listed areas, along with a working understanding of the remaining ones
  o Hazard identification, risk analyses and assessment methodologies (e.g. Hazard Identification (HAZID), Inherent SHE Review, PHAs)
  o Awareness 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)
  o Good working knowledge of engineering software tools such as PHAST, PHA-Pro, Flare Sim, is an advantage.

• Prior experience of working within a manufacturing/production facility is preferred but not a prerequisite

• Strong behavioral competencies such as.
  o Engineering curiosity and initiative to capture opportunities and deliver value.
  o Willing to go above and beyond base expectations to achieve superior business results
  o 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.
  o Courage of conviction and ability to make sound decisions. Able to focus on what is right.
  o Strong communicator, and able to positively influence decision makers to act.
  o Competing-to-win mindset. Be able to prioritize integrated business goals over individual targets, and able to collaborate across boundaries and leverage strength of the organization to maximize value.

Your benefits

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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Functional Skills

Consequence Analysis

Fire Protection

Hazard Identification - Process Safety Hazards

Safety Relief Vent & Flare Design & Operation

Blast Technology

Risk Assessment & Management

Safety Instrumented Systems

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