Process Safety Discipline Manager Full Time NEW

Career Opportunities: Process Safety Discipline Manager (1740)
Requisition ID 1740 – Posted 10/05/2026 – Heritage Corporate – Engineering – Process Safety – Corporate – Santa Flora – Regular – Permanent Employees – Job Location (Country) (1) – Job Category (1)
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Heritage Petroleum Company Limited (Heritage) is state-owned company in the business of exploration, development and production of crude oil. We are inviting talented, innovative, passionate and suitably qualified persons to apply for the following roles.

Job Purpose
To provide day-to-day direction to the Process Safety (PS) engineering support team, ensuring that the team identifies and quantifies risks in business and builds the tools that will allow others to make the right business decisions to achieve safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operations.
Key Accountabilities
•    Leads and establishes Process Safety Management Systems in Heritage to ensure safe operations.
•    Manages the strategic direction of a team of Process Safety Engineers and Incident Root Cause Specialists to establish and implement plans, procedures, and systems to provide support and sound technical advice to Operations and other relevant functions to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant operations.
•    Provides technical support for the closure of Process Safety related challenges identified as well as MOC/PSSR and other corrective measures required to reduce LOPCs and to address asset integrity issues to ensure a robust system that will support operations.
•    Provides specialized technical support and expertise in process safety management and asset integrity management process to all Business Units to ensure that assets are adequately designed and installed in accordance with specifications and remain fit for use over the whole lifecycle of the asset.
•    Manages Investigations and Incident Root Cause Analysis, establishes systems for Lessons Learnt, Closure of incident investigation, and Incident comparison within the industry.
•    Maintains the relevant suite of engineering processes and tools for process safety. Ensures compliance with agreed Standards/Processes, endorsing deviations where needed.
•    Leads the HAZOP and LOPA program and revalidations and implementation of sub-discipline barrier assessments.
•    Conducts and reviews process safety studies or related studies/analyses (Facility Siting, Electrical Area Classification, overpressure protection system review and dispersion analysis) to support the development of related control measures for operations/projects.
•    Assists engineering team with location and selection of fire and gas detectors, automatic isolation valves, and firewater monitors.
•    Reports performance using the agreed leading and lagging KPIs for the process safety & asset integrity meetings.
•    Leads the Community of Practice to capture and share lessons, reviews the impact of emerging risks, and learn from lessons (Relevant sources of learning include HVLs, Learning Alerts/Bulletins, Audit findings, investigations, and engineering studies).
•    Develops updates, evaluates, and administers policies and procedures concerning process safety.
•    Delivers a consistent approach to Process Safety risk management processes and risk mitigation measures.
•    Conducts Process safety-related self-verification and supporting self-verification plans to assess whether activities are being conducted in conformance with process safety requirements, policies, and procedures.
•    Maintains records, reports, and documents that are required to meet corporate and regulatory requirements.
•    Leads the scope development, review, and technical acceptance of process safety work undertaken by external engineering consultancies.

•    Develops strategic goals, objectives, and key performance indicators for Process Safety and utilizes the Performance Management System to measure, manage, and motivate performance.
•    Develops and implements staffing strategy and effectively leads a team of professionals by developing talent and cultivating a high-performance culture.
•    Supports the development of departmental budgets and monitors and controls utilization.
•    Undertakes any other assignments required from time to time to fulfil the job purpose
Location
Santa Flora/Point Fortin
Job Specifications
Minimum Qualifications
•    Bachelor’s degree in Chemical/Mechanical Engineering
•    Master’s in Business Administration
•    Chartered Process Safety Certification
•    Registered Engineer with the Board of Engineering
•    Process Safety accreditation will be an asset

Minimum Experience
•    A minimum of ten (10) years’ experience in the Process Safety Engineering/ Technical Safety preferably in the Oil & Gas Industry.
•    A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a Senior Managerial role.
•    Experience in operations and maintenance of offshore and onshore facilities and the safeguarding methods applied to ensure that risks are ALARP.

Job Specific Skills
•    Extensive technical understanding of process engineering and process safety principles. Proven ability in the practical application of industry codes, standards and practices relevant to process design and safety (e.g. ASME, API, NFPA, ANSI, etc.) and Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP).
•    Ability to recognize hazardous situations and implement timely corrective measures.
•    Ability to work well under pressure and communicate safety guidelines and regulations to Company.
Our greatest asset is our people; therefore, we value the interest shown by all applicants however only suitable candidates will be contacted.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2026