Senior Safety Engineer - Process Safety & Fire Protection

Job Summary

The Senior Safety Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership and engineering support in the areas of process safety, loss prevention, and fire protection for process facilities and projects. The position applies engineering principles, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and risk-based methodologies to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and develop practical engineering solutions that protect personnel, assets, the environment, and business continuity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in process hazard analyses and risk assessments, including HAZID, HAZOP, What-If/Checklist, LOPA, and other qualitative and semi-quantitative risk assessments.
• Evaluate process hazards involving flammable, combustible, toxic, reactive, and high-energy materials and processes.
• Develop and review process safety philosophies, design criteria, specifications, and engineering studies.
• Evaluate safeguards, independent protection layers, mitigation systems, and risk-reduction measures.
• Perform or review consequence analyses involving flammable and toxic releases, dispersion, fires, explosions, and other major accident scenarios.
• Support facility siting, occupied building risk assessments, equipment spacing, hazardous area considerations, and escalation assessments.
• Participate in Management of Change, Pre-Startup Safety Reviews, incident investigations, and other process safety management activities as required.
• Review process and engineering documentation, including PFDs, P&IDs, equipment data sheets, plot plans, cause-and-effect diagrams, and control narratives from a process safety perspective.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• Responsible engineering experience, with substantial experience in process safety, fire protection, loss prevention, or risk engineering.
• Demonstrated experience supporting industrial process facilities such as oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical, hydrogen, power, energy transition, or similar facilities.
• Strong working knowledge of process safety principles and major accident hazards.
• Strong working knowledge of industrial fire protection principles and systems.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply NFPA, API, OSHA, IFC, IBC, and other applicable engineering requirements.
• Experience participating in and/or facilitating process hazard analyses and multidisciplinary safety reviews.
• Ability to independently develop engineering studies, calculations, specifications, reports, and technical recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain professional registration.
• Advanced degree in engineering, safety, fire protection, or related technical discipline.
• Certified Functional Safety Professional, Certified Safety Professional, or other relevant professional certification.
• Consulting, EPC, owner/operator, or multidisciplinary engineering experience.
• Field experience involving operating facilities, construction, commissioning, or startup.

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Benefits
PEAK's benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care Savings Account (DCA), and 401K plan. PEAK believes that taking care of our team is essential for success and we are proud to provide benefits that enhance both your well-being and your future. Additionally, our associates may be eligible for Paid Sick Leave as required by Federal, State, or local laws.  

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) 
PEAK Technical Staffing is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. PEAK does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We encourage all individuals to apply. 

Americans Disabilities Act (ADA) 
The physical and mental requirements described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to perform the essential physical functions of the position, including sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, and lifting up to 25 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation. 

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