Senior Process Safety & Fire Protection Engineer

Worley; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer in Houston to lead process safety and fire protection for major facilities. You will apply risk-based methods to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and develop practical engineering solutions that protect personnel, assets, and the environment.

The role requires a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in process safety and fire protection across oil & gas, refining, petrochemicals, LNG, hydrogen or related industries, and the ability to independently

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum 12+ years of engineering experience in process safety, fire protection, loss prevention, or risk engineering.
• Experience supporting industrial process facilities such as oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, hydrogen, power, or energy transition facilities.
• Strong knowledge of process safety principles and major accident hazards.
• Strong knowledge of industrial fire protection principles and systems.
• Experience interpreting NFPA, API, OSHA, IFC, IBC and other applicable engineering requirements.
• Experience leading process hazard analyses and multidisciplinary safety reviews.
• Ability to independently develop engineering studies, calculations, specifications, reports, and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project teams.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or ability to obtain licensure (preferred).
• Advanced degree in engineering, safety, fire protection, or related discipline (preferred).
• Certified Safety/Functional Safety Professional or similar certification (preferred).
• Consulting/EPC/owner/operator or multidisciplinary engineering experience (preferred).
• Field experience involving operating facilities, construction, commissioning, or startup (preferred).

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.

Skills

Process safety

Fire protection

Loss prevention

Risk engineering

Hazard analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or related field

Tools

NFPA standards

API standards

OSHA requirements

IFC/IBC codes

Job description

Worley is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer in Houston to lead process safety and fire protection for major facilities. You will apply risk-based methods to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and develop practical engineering solutions that protect personnel, assets, and the environment.

The role requires a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in process safety and fire protection across oil & gas, refining, petrochemicals, LNG, hydrogen or related industries, and the ability to independently