Safety Engineer
Leading Risk Assessmen
Total years of experience :20 years, 5 Months
for continuing operation with findings or hazards.
* Leading PHA for new plant projects, MOC and HAZOP revalidation requirements.
* Leading consequence modelling or QRA.
* Leading LOPA studies for functional safety company requirements such as new projects, higher consequences
from PHA revalidations, bypass of critical PRD / Interlocks for PM requirements, etc.
* Leading transient operating hazards (TOH) analysis.
* Leading the implementation of process safety aspects for new projects during the engineering phases, P&IDs
& PFDs review, critical process control documents, SOPs.
* Monitoring and preparation of process safety KPIs (leading and lagging indicators).
* Provide assistance to Operation departments to implement the company management system.
* Promote a process safety culture for employees.
* Monitoring the actions to reduce the number of loss of primary containment.
* Follow up the implementation of recommendations from process safety aspects.
* Provide Process Safety Trainings to employees.
* Designed of new Prevention of combustible dust fire and explosion standard in the company.
* Responsible for the implementation of Prevention of combustible dust fire and explosion standard.
* Conducting field verification/audit of healthiness and availability of process equipment safeguards such as
pressure relief devices, Emergency Shutdown loops, compliance of LOTO, PSSR aspects, MOC, etc.
Directly responsible for developing and maintaining Process Safety Management System (PSM),
* Implemented programs to create and to improve the process safety awareness in the organization,
* Implemented Risk management programs to reduce control and mitigate process safety incidents occurred in
the past.
* Achieving the completion records of insurance company recommendations by deploying structured internal
process safety management program (PSM) together with operational and administrative teams across 83
opened recommendations and closing the gaps for about 45 recommendations in less than three years.
* Impulse the implementation of leading and lagging metrics in the company, creating awareness and
encouraging plant leaders to get familiar with process safety aspects.
* Planned Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) during the different stages of projects and life cycle of the facilities
fulfilling the local and ensuring company requirements.
* Provided engineering support and technical guidance/assistance on applications of process safety
considerations for projects and plant in operation.
* Led and review critical crane lifting plan and hazard analysis for major equipment during turn around
achieving zero injuries during job executions.
* Led and review process safety analysis (HAZID, HAZOP, BOW-TIE, LOPA, QRA, etc).
* Provided to committees the root cause methodology during accident investigations.
* Supported for more than 5 years the creation of new and updating of Risk Engineering PDVSA standards.
* Led the identification of fire zone across all plant units and identifying finding and gaps in aspects such as fire
proofing, fire protection system, emergency isolation valves on columns and drums, etc.
* Increased the process safety knowledge of process safety team by sharing latest and best engineering practices,
as well as, developing a career plan for short and long term training program.
Leaded and facilitated Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) studies as HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA, etc, for process
plants such as ADU / VDU, Utilities / Auxiliaries Units, FCC Unit, Alkylation Unit, Sulphur Recovery
Unit, BTX Unit, LPG Unloading facility and Tank Farms.
* Managed all Process Safety engineering aspects of El Palito Refinery Expansion Project on the Front End
Engineering Design (Feed Phase) for about 4 years.
* Assisting Operation in activities such as MOC, PSSR, Process Safety Trainings, critical SOP review.
* Reviewed the process safety design of the facilities according to the new international and internal standards.
* Conducted safety plant inspections and audits for company codes and for operational compliance avoiding
incidents that could have arose if not actions had been taken timely.
* Provided training to the employees in topics like PSM, Functional Safety, safe work practices, etc, encouraging
workers to avoid process safety incident by following the SOP, PM program for critical equipment, executing
the recommendations, etc.
Industrial Training: What If, HAZOP, QRA, BRA, LOPA, SIL/SIS Methodologies, instrumentation and Control, Firefighting System Design, Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Project Management by PMBOK / PMI, etc.
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