Global TEC Engineering Lead: Process Safety & HAZOP

Nikkiso; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases in the United States seeks an Engineering Lead: Process Safety to provide global technical leadership for hazard studies and safety safeguards under the TEC HAZOP framework. You will guide study methods, action closure, and records from proposals through commissioning.

The successful candidate will combine hazard-study facilitation with engineering judgment and clear technical communication to translate safety requirements into practical design decisions;

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Safety Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of engineering and process-safety experience in energy, chemical processing, industrial gas or high-hazard industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading HAZOP and HAZID studies and assessing hazards, risks and engineered safeguards.
• Ability to review process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), control philosophies, cause-and-effect diagrams and other safety documentation.
• Knowledge of applicable engineering codes, standards and safety regulations.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination, technical writing, presentation and facilitation skills; willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead HAZOP, hazard identification (HAZID), What-If, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), layer of protection analysis (LOPA) and Bowtie studies for the approved product scope.
• Confirm design maturity, study scope, documents and participants; maintain competent facilitators, recorders and safety integrity level (SIL) evaluators under the Head of TEC’s framework.
• Assess credible hazards, consequences, likelihood and safeguards; coordinate alarms, interlocks, shutdown, relief and detection systems and verify safety-instrumented risk reduction with technical owners.
• Assign action owners, priorities and dates; verify closure evidence and expedite unresolved safety actions before project milestones.
• Complete internal HAZOP and major action closure before customer HAZOP; retain engineering-team continuity where practical and preserve controlled study records.
• Support design, constructability, commissioning-readiness and management-of-change reviews, including new technology and operating procedures; provide proposal safety requirements, exceptions, effort and risk inputs.
• Coordinate applicable process-safety, fire, electrical and environmental requirements with engineering owners and CE&IG Safety; support permitting within the assigned scope.
• Maintain global study methods, training, tools and rolling two-year standards plans; obtain formal TEC approvals before Product Center release and incorporate operating and project lessons.

Skills

HAZOP leadership

HAZID studies

PFDs & P&IDs review

Safety documentation review

Multidisciplinary coordination

Technical writing

Facilitation skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Safety Eng

Tools

PHA software

SIL verification

Consequence modeling

Regulatory standards knowledge

Job description

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases in the United States seeks an Engineering Lead: Process Safety to provide global technical leadership for hazard studies and safety safeguards under the TEC HAZOP framework. You will guide study methods, action closure, and records from proposals through commissioning.

The successful candidate will combine hazard-study facilitation with engineering judgment and clear technical communication to translate safety requirements into practical design decisions;