Process Safety Engineer

Date: Oct 13, 2025 Location:

Pernis, ZH, NL

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong. 

Anything is possible when you imagine everything. 

Position Overview

Lead Process Engineer Project Pernis Program.

Provide leadership and direction to several engineers, to perform work requiring advanced knowledge, technical support and responsibility to develop conceptual, basis of design studies. The aim is to interface with client representative; project, planning, technical disciplines, operations, maintenance to align requirements and expectations. Also, to design new or improved manufacturing capabilities, while optimizing the performance, quality, safety and costs and staying in compliance with applicable standards.

Decision making authority:

• Work is performed under general direction, receiving minimal guidance; 
• Plans, schedules and arranges own activities in accomplishing objectives; 
• Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.

Key Relationships:

Internal:

• EHS Manager 
• All associates; from operator/mechanic to Site leadership
• Corporate EHS department

External:

• Authorities
• Deltalinqs
• Contractors
• Consultants
• Shell (EHS department, Fire brigade)

Job Responsibilities

Legal Compliance:

 
• SEVESO inspection coordination and follow-up; 
• Keeping the site safety report up to date and in compliance with Seveso requirements; 
• Conducting safety audits and on-site inspections; 
• Keep up-to-date with proposed and actual changes in safety regulations, so the organization’s EHS policies remain current and relevant; 
• Regulatory compliance checks; 
• Advises management regarding EHS improvements and issues regarding improvements on regulatory compliance.

EHS performance: 

• Identifying risks and areas for improvement; 
• Supports / Facilitates incident investigations and analysis of EHS incidents; 
• Monitor the organization’s overall EHS performance to identify recurring problems, research, evaluate and recommend changes to equipment, systems or processes that will improve the organization’s performance; 
• Provide technical expertise and advice on EHS issues to functional or operational areas. 
• Facilitates HAZOP and SIL studies; 
• EHS metric reporting: weekly/monthly internal reporting in corporate Metric collection system and site KPI scorecard; 

Management System: 

• Implementation of corporate EHS guidelines and standards; 
• Improvement of EHS management processes and site EHS procedures, including emergency preparedness procedures; 

• Implementation of Process Safety management process, metric system implementation and training (PM incident monitoring and analysis).

Competencies

Strategic Focus and Direction

Builds relationships with internal partners, contractors, consultants and authorities

Understands the site’s strategic plan

Understands relationship between site plans, team/unit and own role 

Understands relationship between site and authorities

Identifies problems in attaining planned goals or work and proposes solutions

Trust and Teamwork

Displays correct, professional business etiquette in all interactions

Understands that there are different approaches when making decisions and utilizes as appropriate

Compiles and presents information in a manner easily understood by others

Collaborates to enhance team efforts through personal contributions. Places team success above personal success

Communicates directly, honestly, and respectfully to gain cooperation and resolve conflicts with others

Transformational Leadership

Evaluates and plans the use of resources to obtain efficiencies wherever possible

Accepts responsibility for the consequences of personal actions; 

Acts in a manner consistent with Company’s core values

Displays a positive attitude and willingness to make the necessary effort to accomplish goals

Demonstrates accountability for own work, personal and professional development

Recognizes and considers cultural differences in a respectful manner

Achieve Business Results

Accomplishes assignments on time and contributes to continuously improve work flow and – processes; 

Plans, organizes and completes projects and functional work to accomplish goals and assignments; 

Accomplishes expectations and delivers goals and work timely and efficiently.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in chemical engineering, or equivalent combination of training & experience.

At least 3 years experience in the chemical industry

Must be familiar with process safety 

Should possess leadership, training, presentation, problem solving, and decision making skills

Must have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization

Should have strong oral and written communication skills

Should be persuasive, independent, accurate, creative, diplomatic and a team player