Senior Safety Engineer - Process Safety & Fire Protection

PEAK Technical Services Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

PEAK Technical Services Inc. seeks a Senior Safety Engineer to provide technical leadership in process safety, loss prevention, and fire protection for process facilities and projects. You will apply risk-based methods to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and develop practical safety solutions to protect personnel and assets.

The role requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and strong communication to support siting, MI, and compliance with NFPA/ OSHA standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering or related field.
• Relevant engineering experience in process safety, fire protection, loss prevention or risk engineering.
• Experience supporting industrial process facilities (oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical, hydrogen, energy).
• Strong knowledge of process safety principles and major accident hazards.
• Experience with NFPA, API, OSHA, IFC, IBC requirements.
• Experience in safety analyses and multidisciplinary reviews.
• Ability to develop engineering studies, calculations, reports, and recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead process hazard analyses and risk assessments (HAZID, HAZOP, What-If, LOPA).
• Evaluate hazards from flammable, toxic, reactive and high-energy processes.
• Develop safety philosophies, design criteria, specifications, and studies.
• Assess safeguards, IPLs, mitigation systems, and risk reduction measures.
• Perform consequence analyses for releases, dispersion, fires, explosions.
• Support facility siting, occupied building risk, equipment spacing, hazardous areas.
• Participate in Management of Change, PSSA, incident investigations, and PPE reviews.
• Review PFDs, P&IDs, equipment data sheets, and control narratives from a safety lens.

Skills

Process safety

HAZID/HAZOP

LOPA

Risk assessments

Fire protection

PFDs & P&IDs review

Standards knowledge (NFPA/OSHA/IFC/IBC

Technical writing

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering

Job description

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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