Senior Process Safety Leader - Refinery Operations

Hired; Bexley (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Annual bonus

401(k) match

Long-term incentives

Health/dental insurance

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance

Virtual healthcare

Leave programs

Fitness reimbursement

Education support

Leadership development

Volunteer opportunities

Donation grants $1000 per event

Donation matching $10000 annually

Job summary

Hired is seeking a senior process-safety leader to drive process-safety implementation across refinery operations in the United States. The role serves as a subject-matter expert for risk methodology, regulatory interpretation, safety standards, and major risk studies.

You will develop capable process-safety engineers, build expertise in HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID, and related practices, design risk-training programs, and drive audits and risk-management-plan compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or closely related discipline.
• 16+ years of direct process-safety or related experience.
• Experience leading complex unit HAZOPs and management-of-change activities for chemical/oil/gas operators.
• Experience conducting LOPA analyses and translating results into SIL requirements.
• 10+ years in oil & gas or petrochemical with certification, consequence-modeling, fire-hazard analysis, QRA, facility siting, bowtie, HAZID, and PSM experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead process safety as a technical competency across refinery operations.
• Develop capable process-safety engineers and build risk-methodology expertise in HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID.
• Design, deliver, and maintain risk-training programs and provide QA for site deliverables.
• Champion risk standards, including PHA requirements and risk-management-plan compliance.
• Coordinate centrally managed third-party studies (facility siting, fire-hazard analyses).
• Drive and support process-safety-management assurance audits.

Skills

Process safety leadership

HAZOP/LOPA/HAZID

Regulatory interpretation

Risk methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical/Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Consequence modelling software

Bowtie analysis

QRA tools

Job description

Hired is seeking a senior process-safety leader to drive process-safety implementation across refinery operations in the United States. The role serves as a subject-matter expert for risk methodology, regulatory interpretation, safety standards, and major risk studies.

You will develop capable process-safety engineers, build expertise in HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID, and related practices, design risk-training programs, and drive audits and risk-management-plan compliance.