Deputy Manager

Honour Lab; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Honour Lab in Delhi seeks an experienced Process Safety Engineer to lead safety studies and hazard assessments for pharma and chemical processes. You will conduct PHA/LOPA, review process descriptions and set safe operating limits, ensuring safe scale-up and technology transfer across projects.

Responsibilities include reaction safety testing, powder safety studies and explosion-relief considerations, with emphasis on preventing incidents and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 6-12 years of experience in Process Safety, Reaction Safety, PHA or related R&D in pharma/chemicals.
• Degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus on process safety.
• Strong understanding of hazard analysis and scale-up safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute Process Safety Studies, PHA/LOPA and risk assessment.
• Prepare Process Safety Assessment Reports for new and existing processes.
• Review PFDs/P&IDs and identify hazards and safeguards.
• Conduct Chemical Reaction Hazard Assessments and scale-up safety.
• Perform Reaction Calorimetry and Thermal Safety testing.
• Oversee Powder Safety studies, dust hazards and mitigation.
• Coordinate explosion protection, PSV sizing and relief systems.

Skills

Process Safety Studies

Reaction Safety

PHA/HAZOP/HAZID

What-If/LOPA

Risk Assessment

Powder Safety

Explosion & Relief Systems

Education

B.E./B.Tech - Chemical Engineering

Specialization in Process Safety / Chemical Safety

Tools

RC / RC1 / Reaction Calorimetry

ARC Accelerating Rate Calorimetry

ARSST Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool

DSC – Differential Scanning Calorimetry

TSU – Thermal Screening Unit

RSD – Rapid Screening Device

TGA / Thermogravimetric Analysis

Job description

Educational Qualification:

B.E./B.Tech - Chemical Engineering.

Candidates with a specialization or additional qualification in Process Safety / Chemical Safety are preferred.

Experience

6- 12 years of experience in Process Safety, Reaction Safety, Process Hazard Analysis, or Process Safety R&D in Pharmaceutical, API, Fine Chemical, Specialty Chemicals

Role Objective

To lead and execute Process Safety Studies, Chemical Reaction Hazard Assessments, Powder Safety Studies and Thermal/Reaction Safety Testing for new and existing processes, ensuring safe scale-up, technology transfer, plant operation and modification.

Key Responsibilities

1. Process Safety Studies

• Lead and participate in PHA, HAZOP, HAZID, What-If, LOPA and Risk Assessment studies.
• Prepare Process Safety Assessment Reports for new products, existing processes, scale-up and technology transfer.
• Review PFDs, P&I Ds, process descriptions, operating procedures and process parameters.
• Identify fire, explosion, toxic-release, overpressure, chemical-reactivity and thermal-runaway hazards.
• Define appropriate preventive and mitigative safeguards.
• Support MOC and PSSR activities.

2. Chemical Reaction Safety

• Conduct preliminary and detailed Chemical Reaction Hazard Assessments.
• Evaluate exothermic reactions, decomposition reactions, gas generation, accumulation and thermal runaway.
• Assess reaction hazards during scale-up, process development and technology transfer.
• Establish safe operating limits, critical process parameters, emergency quench requirements and cooling requirements.
• Interpret reaction-safety test data and translate results into plant operating controls.

3. Reaction Calorimetry & Thermal Safety Studies

Hands-on experience by technical understanding & Interpretation in the process:

• RC / RC1 / Reaction Calorimetry
• ARC Accelerating Rate Calorimetry
• ARSST Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool
• DSC – Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• TSU – Thermal Screening Unit
• RSD – Rapid Screening Device
• TGA / Thermogravimetric Analysis
• Thermal stability and decomposition studies
• Adiabatic / runaway reaction assessment
• Gas-generation and pressure-rise studies

Current pharma/API process-safety roles specifically mention DSC, RC, ARC, TSU and ARSST testing.

4. Powder Safety Studies

• Conduct/review powder and combustible-dust hazard assessments.
• Evaluate:
• Pmax – Maximum Explosion Pressure
• Kst – Deflagration Index
• MIE – Minimum Ignition Energy
• MEC – Minimum Explosible Concentration
• MIT – Minimum Ignition Temperature
• Dust explosibility
• Dust-layer ignition
• Powder resistivity / electrostatic hazards
• Combustibility and explosion severity
• Assess hazards associated with milling, sieving, drying, charging, discharging and powder handling.
• Recommend explosion prevention, protection, isolation and mitigation measures.

Powder safety, static electricity, dust explosion, MIE and related testing are explicitly included in current pharma/chemical Process Safety Engineer profiles.

5. Explosion & Relief-System Safety

• Review PSV, rupture disc and emergency relief requirements.
• Assess runaway reaction, fire exposure, blocked outlet and gas-generation scenarios.
• Perform/review pressure relief and venting assessments.
• Conduct or coordinate explosion vent sizing.
• Review explosion protection, suppression and isolation requirements.
• Assess pressure/explosion hazards associated with reactors, dryers, filters, mills and powder-handling systems.

6. Process Hazard Analysis

• Facilitate/participate in:
• HAZOP
• HAZID
• What-If Analysis
• LOPA
• PHA
• QRA
• SIL assessment, where applicable
• FMEA/FTA/ETA, where applicable

• Ensure recommendations are technically evaluated and closed effectively.