Advanced Process Safety Professional

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At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

The MPLX Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquid (NG & NGL) Services Process Safety Department is seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual eager to take on technical and leadership growth opportunities in process safety. We are looking for candidates who excel in collaborating with diverse teams, possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and thrive in a dynamic team environment.

• Ensure regulatory compliance and conformance with various elements of Process Safety Management (PSM), and external & internal process safety related standards. Advises on interpretation and application of internal and external standards. Maintain and continuously improve local/ organization’s process safety plans.
• Provide engineering support and technical guidance related to equipment and process design that meets industry codes and standards from organizations (i.e., Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices). Able to use project engineering principles and economic analyses to help justify, plan and budget for process safety risk reduction projects.
• Lead and/or provide engineering support and technical guidance in incident investigations, hazard identification, facility siting modeling, PHA (Process Hazard Analysis), LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis), relief studies, and dispersion modeling. Able to challenge technical assumptions and validate most likely consequences and risk categorizations, ensuring these process safety studies are technically sound and meet internal and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineers to develop intermediate and permanent mitigations to close process safety recommendations/risks, and ensures recommendations are closed in a timely manner. Able to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate risks and propose viable mitigation measures with appropriate risk reduction factors.
• Interact frequently with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering personnel at their assigned PSM facilities/organizations to build rapport with the personnel and to be aware of and assist with resolving process safety issues. Communicate, elevate, and mitigate process safety risks, as appropriate.
• Identify, develop, and deliver training on process safety management and related topics to stakeholders including technical aspects of process safety such as PHA/LOPA/IPLs, facility siting, dispersion modeling, etc.
• Conduct and/or validate process safety leak calculations and categorization. Analyze process safety metrics to identify trends, strengths, and improvement opportunities. Develop dashboards and report to effectively communicate metrics and trends.
• Support and/or lead audits and assurance activities for process safety. Supports facilities with regulatory inspection and/or enforcement actions. Able to assess not just basic compliance and conformance, but also the quality of the process safety safeguards and inherent process safety risks.
• Participate in specialty industry groups to share and learn good process safety practices, advocate for sound regulations or to influence the development/modification of industry standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, HES related field, or advanced degree with 7 years relevant environmental experience or High School diploma or GED with 15 years of relevant experience in a process industry
• Working knowledge and experience implementing process safety elements
• General understanding and application of the process, process hazards, corrosion mechanisms and safeguards for the type of facility/unit(s) assigned
• Understands and applies qualitative and quantitative process safety risk evaluation methods on simple scenarios and processes (e.g. MOC, PHA, LOPA, risk calibration, facility siting)
• Understands PSM regulatory requirements as well as industry recommended practices related to process safety
• Driver's License Required

Travel Expected: Up to 50% within assigned New Mexico/West Texas region area

Location: Midland, Texas. Additional locations: Jal, New Mexico.

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, anc