Engineering Manager Process Safety

About this Position

• The Engineering Manager Process Safety (EMPS) assumes a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, predictable, reliable, and sustainable operation of Henkel Adhesives' processes and facilities.
• The responsibilities of this role encompass various facets, including conducting and or coordinating comprehensive risk assessments during the full production life cycle, defining process safety risk mitigation and reduction strategies, implementing process safety protocols, ensuring compliance to the relevant legislation and company standards, promoting best practices, evaluating and recommending competency and training requirements, and serving as an advocate to instill a robust process safety culture and operational discipline within Henkel.
• Beyond guiding the implementation and upkeep of site-specific Process Safety Management (PSM) systems, the EMPS provides crucial assurance that all process safety risks associated with facility design and operation are continuously managed at a tolerable or acceptable level. Given the cross-functional nature of the position, the EMPS must collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team. This role is considered the primary focal point and entity for oversight in operations, engineering, and maintenance activities in APAC. 
  

What you´ll do

• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of sites process safety management system.
  
• Develop and implement site specific safety protocols and procedures, ensuring alignment with local/regional regulations as well as Henkel Global process safety governance.
  
• Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, and operations teams to ensure process safety risk management measures meet or exceed the requirements set out in the Henkel AO risk-based process safety framework.
  
• Facilitate and or coordinate process safety hazard identification and risk assessment studies using an appropriate selection of suitable methodologies which may include HAZOP, SWIFT, LOPA, FMEA, Fault /Event Tree
• Analyses, Human Factors, Inherent Safer Design (ISD) and Risk Ranking.
  
• Help establish and maintain the Basis of Safety (BoS) document for the site(s) under their responsibility. Ensure the periodical review of this document as well as the revision of the associated detailed risk assessment studies.
  
• Contribute to process safety incident or process safety near miss investigations. In addition, support the identification of failed barriers, lessons learned as well as the necessary preventive and corrective actions.
  
• Review and approve the classification of process safety incidents. Consolidate and approve month-end figures for PSI & PSNM KPI reporting.
  
• Track and monitor actions arising from risk assessments, compliance audits, incident investigations & continuous improvement or gap closure plans.
  
• Provide process safety guidance during the management of change (MoC) process.
  
• Support the identification and management of process safety critical equipment (PSCE). Perform assurance checks on the adherence to site ITPM plans with specific focus on overdue inspections and preventive maintenance.
  
• Lead or take part in process safety workplace inspections, audits, and reviews to assess compliance to PSM standards and to provide assurance of the effectiveness of agreed actions taken in response to process safety activities, e.g., incident investigations, DRAs, etc.
  
• Assist operations to prepare for compliance and or external audits. This involves collecting information, assisting with organising and planning, follow up and tracking the status of corrective actions.
  
• As a subject matter expert, advise and influence site operations management on how to improve process safety performance (plans, targets, lessons learned, best practices, etc.). Assist with the development of a site-specific continuous improvement plan and track adherence to plan.
  
• Ensure that process safety incident learnings (i.e., internal or external) are fully and sustainably embedded within the site-specific process safety program.