Process Safety Engineer - COMAH site

The Process Safety Engineer 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 conducting and coordinating comprehensive risk assessments during the full production life cycle, defining process safety risk mitigation and reduction strategies, implementing process safety protocols, ensuring compliance with 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 Process Safety Engineer 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 Process Safety Engineer 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.

What You'll Do

• 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 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.
• Contribute to process safety incident or process safety near‑miss investigations.
• Review and approve the classification of process safety incidents.
• Consolidate and approve month‑end figures for PSI & PSNM KPI reporting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Contribute to the site emergency response and preparedness program by identifying DRA scenarios or past process safety events of significance for emergency scenarios.

Special Roles & Responsibilities / Required Outputs

• Coordinate and conduct specialized or advanced process safety studies (e.g., consequence assessments, quantitative risk assessments (QRAs), dust hazard analysis (DHAs), hazardous area classification (HAC), SIL verification, etc.) where required in accordance with relevant industry best practice.
• Conduct assurance verifications on specialized or advanced process safety studies to ensure it meets the necessary quality criteria.
• Support the other engineering disciplines (i.e., mechanical, process, civil, electrical, instrumentation, etc.) with the interpretation of relevant recognized and good engineering practice (RAGAGEPs) to ensure good engineering design especially as it relates to engineering safeguards (i.e., relief devices, safety instrumented systems, classified areas, etc.).
• Actively partake in Pre Start‑Up Safety Reviews (PSSRs) which may include facilitation of pre‑start‑up checks specifically focused on safeguard readiness and or forming part of the physical inspection of the plant, process or equipment that is new or modified (i.e., “punching”).
• Stay abreast with the relevant regulatory framework developments and collaborate with regulatory agencies during inspections to demonstrate adherence to the relevant process safety standards and legislation.

What makes you a good fit

• A Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering with a strong technical background (preferably Chemical, Mechanical, Process Safety or Industrial Engineering).
• Minimum Experience: 5 years of total experience (Bachelor’s) with at least 2 years chemical manufacturing experience OR 3 years total experience (Master’s) with at least 2 years chemical manufacturing experience OR 2 years total experience (PhD) with at least 2 years chemical manufacturing experience.
• Strong knowledge in all the following areas and proficient in at least 3: engineering design, operational risk management, process safety management, process hazard analysis, risk assessment & analysis, explosion safety and ignition control, loss prevention, incident investigation, process safety auditing.
• Working knowledge and or proficiency in the application of the relevant legislation and industry recommended best practices related to process safety management (e.g., OSHA PSM 29 CFR 1910.119, Seveso III / Directive 2012/18/EU, COMAH/CIMAH, ISO, ASME, API RP, IEC, NFPA, etc.).

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Diverse national and international growth opportunities.
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs.
• Gender‑neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks.
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares.
• Performance bonus / incentives.
• Competitive Pension & Life Assurance – Company contributes up to 10% of basic salary.
• Annual Leave: 27 days plus 8 Bank Holidays.
• Celebration vouchers.

We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.