Process Safety Engineer

Georgia-Pacific - Palatka, FL

Full-time

Palatka, FL

501-1,000 employees

Wood Product Manufacturing

About the position

Georgia-Pacific has an exciting opportunity for a talented Process Safety Engineer at our Palatka, Florida facility. The Palatka mill employs about 975 people and is located just south of Jacksonville, west of St. Augustine, and east of Gainesville, FL. It has four tissue paper machines and 2 kraft paper machines as well as several converting lines that produce consumer tissue products sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names of Angel Soft®, Brawny®, and Sparkle®. This role will enjoy top rated benefits and will be eligible for a 4-Day work week at the mill. The Process Safety Engineer will be part of the process safety team and report directly to the Chemical Process Safety Manager. The selected individual will drive and support value-based strategies, provide technical direction, and influence leadership for process safety. This position involves providing process safety influential leadership for the site, working with the mill's Leadership Team, with specific focus on ensuring that mill process safety systems reduce risk and ensure compliance. The role also includes fostering process safety ownership within the organization through leadership, coordination, and coaching in keeping with risk-based process safety and Principle Based Management (PBM®). The Process Safety Engineer will provide routine communication to the organization regarding process safety issues impacting the mill, lead risk assessments at the facility for anticipating, identifying and evaluating hazards, and apply the principles of Process Safety Competency to make process safety an operating discipline within all affected roles at the mill. Additionally, the engineer will partner with corporate process safety and compliance IT groups to develop and improve training, tools, and policies that support the mill. Assisting S&H leadership with the development of short and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks is also a key responsibility. The engineer will utilize metrics to monitor process safety compliance, review and validate process equipment design specifications, safeguard specifications, and operating procedures, lead process incident investigations, and manage the mill's process safety information.

Responsibilities

• Providing process safety influential leadership for the site, working with the mill's Leadership Team, with specific focus on ensuring that mill process safety systems reduce risk and ensure compliance
• Fostering process safety ownership within the organization through leadership, coordination, and coaching in keeping with risk-based process safety and Principle Based Management (PBM®)
• Providing routine communication to the organization regarding process safety issues impacting the mill
• Leading risk assessments at the facility for anticipating, identifying and evaluating hazards as well as more formal PHAs
• Applying the principles of Process Safety Competency to make process safety an operating discipline within all affected roles at the mill
• Partnering with corporate process safety and compliance IT groups to develop and improve training, tools, and policies that support the mill
• Assisting S&H leadership with the development of short and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks
• Utilizing metrics to monitor process safety compliance
• Reviewing and validation of the following: process equipment design specifications, safeguard specifications, and operating procedures
• Leading process incident investigations and develop effective corrective actions to prevent recurrence
• Managing the mill's process safety information including P&ID's, PFD's, chemical compatibility matrix, new chemical approvals, mechanical integrity, etc.
• Serving as a mentor for technical and hourly employees to make process safety an everyday mission for continuous improvement in daily operations

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Chemical, Mechanical Engineering, Safety, related engineering or technical field
• Three (3) or more years of experience in a process engineering, process safety, mechanical integrity, or reliability role within a PSM regulated operation
• Experience with Process Safety regulations

Benefits

• Top rated benefits
• Eligibility for a 4-Day work week