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.
