Bring your expertise. Shape safe and sustainable operations.
We are looking for a proactive and highly skilled Process Safety Engineer to play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, predictable, reliable, and sustainable operation of Henkel Adhesives’ processes and facilities.
Within Henkel, Process Safety Management (PSM) is a disciplined framework designed to ensure the integrity of processes handling hazardous substances, combining sound engineering design principles with operational and asset integrity practices. Our approach is risk-based, ensuring that all process safety risks are continuously managed at a tolerable and acceptable level.
In this role, you will act as the primary focal point for process safety on site, collaborating across operations, engineering, and maintenance, while influencing leadership and driving a strong process safety culture.
What you´ll do:
- Contribute to the establishment, implementation, and continuous improvement of the site Process Safety Management (PSM) system, aligned with Henkel global governance and local/regional regulations.
- Develop and implement site-specific process safety protocols and procedures.
- Collaborate cross-functionally (engineering, maintenance, operations) to ensure process safety risk management measures meet or exceed Henkel’s risk-based framework.
- Facilitate and coordinate hazard identification and risk assessments across the full production lifecycle using methodologies such as HAZOP, SWIFT, LOPA, FMEA, Fault/Event Tree Analysis, Human Factors, Inherent Safer Design (ISD), and risk ranking.
- Coordinate and review third-party risk assessment studies, ensuring quality and compliance with company standards.
- Maintain and periodically review the Basis of Safety (BoS) documentation and associated studies.
- Support and contribute to process safety incident and near-miss investigations, including root cause analysis, identification of failed barriers, lessons learned, and corrective/preventive actions.
- Review and approve classification of process safety incidents and consolidate monthly KPI reporting (PSI & PSNM).
- Track and monitor actions resulting from audits, risk assessments, investigations, and improvement plans.
- Provide expert input during Management of Change (MoC) processes.
- Support identification and lifecycle management of Process Safety Critical Equipment (PSCE), ensuring adherence to inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance plans.
- Lead or participate in process safety audits, workplace inspections, and compliance reviews, ensuring effectiveness of implemented actions.
- Support preparation for internal and external audits, including planning, documentation, and follow-up of corrective actions.
- Oversee the collection, analysis, and reporting of PSM KPIs, including trend analysis and recommendations for improvement.
- Act as a subject matter expert, advising site leadership on process safety performance, strategy, targets, and best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure embedding of internal and external process safety learnings.
- Contribute to emergency preparedness by identifying relevant scenarios based on past events and risk analyses.
- Coordinate or conduct advanced process safety studies such as consequence modelling, , Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA), Hazardous Area Classification (HAC), and SIL verification.
- Perform assurance checks on specialized studies to ensure quality standards are met.
- Provide guidance on recognized and good engineering practices (RAGAGEPs), especially related to safety-critical systems (e.g., relief systems, SIS, hazardous areas).
- Support development and delivery of process safety training programs.
- Ensure operational readiness for new or modified installations by participating in engineering reviews and Pre-Start-Up Safety Reviews (PSSRs), including physical inspections (“punching”).
- Stay up to date with regulatory developments and support inspections by authorities.
- Act as the focal point for all process safety matters on site, including input into job safety analyses and task risk assessments.
