International Chemical Manufacturing company is looking for a Process Safety Engineer (an innovative & resourceful problem-solver) , who will operate from the Head Office, close to Pietermaritzburg, KZN. The purpose of the job is to manage all process engineering, process safety management and assigned capex projects for the manufacturing facility to ensure statutory, legal and corporate compliance and ensure products are manufactured to meet corporate and customer requirements. Minimum 5 years experience in process safety engineering in chemical manufacturing environment, as well as tertiary qualification in Chemical Engineering required.

Requirements:

• BSc Chemical Engineering
• 5-10 years process safety experience in high paced chemical manufacturing industry
• Experience in batch processing reaction chemistry environment will be an advantage
• Strong understanding of system safety and hazard identification and risk analysis process (HIRA).
• Advanced knowledge of manufacturing processes, process safety, policies, procedures, OHS Act and other relevant legislation
• Knowledge of DCS configuration.
• Risk assessment skills, general problem-solving using data analytics and root cause failure analysis techniques

Duties:

• Maintaining and improve process engineering performance.
• Effective management of capex projects.
• Maintaining and improve process safety.
• Developing and driving the implementation of process safety strategies and action plans addressing process safety risk and process safety management system maturity;
• Overall implementation, monitoring, reporting, sustaining and building upon the site’s existing process safety management system (practices, metrics)
• Implementing continuous improvement and project management initiatives.
• Maintaining and improve SHERQ manufacturing performance. (HAZOPs, other PHAs, MOCs);
• Supporting group level process safety initiatives.

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