Job Description

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world. Driven by its employees around the globe, LyondellBasell produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world's largest producer of polypropylene compounds and the largest licensor of polyolefin technologies. In 2021, LyondellBasell was named to Fortune Magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies for the fourth consecutive year.

Basic Function

The Process Safety Manager is responsible for the management of process safety risk at Channelview. Additionally, this role functions to ensure compliance with Operational Excellence across the site.

Roles & Responsibilities

Process Safety Responsibilities:

* Owns the plant procedures associated with process safety including PSI, MOC, PHA, Incident Investigation, etc.
* Ensures all PS incidents are properly categorized and investigations are conducted in timely and quality fashion. Serves as investigation process owner for process safety and reliability incidents.
* Ensures action items for audits, investigations, and other sources are closed in a timely fashion.
* Ensures PHAs are completed in a timely manner with appropriate quality.
* Ensures compliance with OSHA PSM and EPA RMP regulations.
* Ensures and tracks compliance with new Directives, Advisories and Alerts.
* Champions process safety knowledge sharing across the site
* Occasionally serves as a lead external OE auditor in other plants.
* Works with corporate process safety group on process safety issues.
* Ensures monthly report on process safety is issued and metrics are tracked each month.

Operational Excellence responsibilities:

* Coordinates site compliance with Corporate Excellence Models
* Foster the continuous improvement in the sites OE Management Systems driven from audit findings, metrics and best practices.
* Ensures annual site OE self-assessment is conducted and coordinates Formal OE audits and other 3rd party audits at plant
* Author annual OE verification letter for site manager approval
* Serve as OE auditor at other plants
* Drive OESEP program - develop annual LRP, drive into budget, track progress and expenditures Author annual OE verification letter for site manager approval
* Ensures the plant achieves and maintains ACC Responsible Care certification

Other responsibilities:

* Serve on Global Process Safety Network and industry trade groups with an interest in process safety (e.g., AFPM, AIChE CCPS, Mary Kay OConnor Process Safety Center, etc.)
* Manages Formal OE Audits, Internal Self-assessment audits, Loss Prevention Audits or other 3rd Party audits as requested.
* The Process Safety Manager may from time to time participate in Operational Excellence (OE) audits at other plant sites.

Min. Qualifications

* BS in Chemical Engineering or Safety Discipline or the equivalent of 10 years relevant field experience, plus a minimum of 8 years experience in progressively more responsible positions in petrochemical or refining process operations with a minimum of 2 years in a supervisory capacity is required.
* Requires demonstrated leadership ability and strong interpersonal skills.
* Needs a strong grasp of refinery or petrochemical operations
* Strong interpersonal and leadership skills are also highly desired
* Supervisory experience in a unionized environment is highly desirable.
* Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbal
* Proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

Competencies

Builds effective teams

Collaborates

Cultivates innovation

Customer focus

Demonstrates courage

Drives results

Ensures accountability

Instills trust and exemplifies integrity

Must be at least 18 years of age and must be legally authorized to work in the United States (US) on a permanent basis without visa sponsorship.

LyondellBasell does not accept or retain unsolicited rsums or phone calls and/or respond to them or to any third party representing job seekers.

LyondellBasell is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The US EEO is the Law poster is available here.