Process Safety Engineer
Tesla
Austin, Texas
Job Description
What to Expect
What You’ll Bring
Tesla is seeking a talented Engineer dedicated to Process Safety at Gigafactory Texas.
What You’ll Do- Leads factory engineering technical deep dives & options analysis & risk assessments for green field and brown field engineering projects.
- Gathers and develops a deep understanding of stakeholder requirements needed to identify potential hazards and operability issues in early factory development
- Defines & effectively communicates factory design safety & hazard prioritization for internal and external factory engineering teams
- Drives scoping & implementation of engineering safety/ hazard mitigation design strategies
- Owns execution of high-quality risk assessments & risk management deliverables
- Facilitate risk assessments and work with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct risks assessments such as HAZOP, What-IF, PHA, and other risk assessment methods.
- Lead efforts for modeling scenarios and working with external consultants/ partners as needed to conduct modeling such as CFD, FDS, PHAST, Canary, iPRISM, ALOHA, and other risk modeling tools.
- Leads follow-through reviews/ coordination to ensure identified risks & mitigation efforts have been included in engineering design.
- Supports technical studies such as feasibility and value engineering exercises related to safety & risk management.
- Assist in Hazardous Chemical management program as required.
- Reports to Lead of Process Safety for Factory Engineering.
- B.S. in process/chemical engineering, with Process Safety focus highly preferred. Mechanical/Fire Protection Engineering candidates with relevant engineering experience also welcome.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams within Architectural/Engineering/ Process Engineering firms to identify and implement PSM engineering requirements.
- Full understanding of core engineering disciplines and ability to demonstrate skills to manage/facilitate engineering resources.
- Experience designing manufacturing facilities, Chemical Process, Battery, Oil & Gas, or Semiconductor
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to understand complex problems and distill the message into a clear plan
- PHA/HAZOP/What-If facilitation or technical evaluation experience highly desired.
- Dispersion analysis, flammability analysis, consequence modeling, combustible dust hazards, reactive hazard analyses & evaluation, is a plus.
