Company Summary Statement

Rhode Island Energy provides essential energy services to over 770,000 customers across Rhode Island through the delivery of electricity or natural gas. Our team is dedicated to helping Rhode Island customers and communities thrive while supporting the transition to a cleaner energy future. Rhode Island Energy is part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies addressing energy challenges head-on by building smarter, more resilient, and more dynamic power grids and advancing sustainable energy solutions. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.

Overview

This position works with the Gas Operations business to support the development, implementation, and oversight of the company’s Process Safety Management System in RI. Role also includes participation in monitoring of program effectiveness, and governance model to ensure compliance with internal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with the RI Gas Operations team to implement the Process Safety Management System and be knowledgeable of other industry standards around safe and reliable asset management including OSHA 29CR1910.119 PSM’s fourteen (14) elements
• Develop centralized programs under guidance of Process Safety Director to facilitate compliance with the process safety requirements and work with business areas on implementing these programs
• Ability to evaluate risk of hazardous scenarios and develop mitigating factors using a systematic process safety approach
• Work with businesses on process safety incident review and provide guidance
• Share lessons learned and best practices across the business
• Process Safety incident and root cause trending
• Maintain risk assessment inventory, risk portfolio
• Periodic assessments of business risk management activities to ensure progress
• Develop and coordinate targeted training for different process safety programs 
• Maintain outreach with engineering areas to ensure lessons learned factored into new designs
• Assist in developing and monitoring continuous improvement efforts regarding process safety

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in engineering or related science discipline 
• Knowledgeable in instrumentation and controls, engineering design, equipment operation or maintenance 
• Experience in prior process safety jobs or applications including risk identification, performance management and reporting and other process safety tools desirable
• Understanding and experience with LNG, CNG, gas utility operations, as well as industry standards and regulations a plus
• Experience performing process safety or other types of asset related risk Experience performing compliance assessments or audits on process safety applications a plus
• Excellent knowledge of the technical and political issues related to Process Safety in all states of service territory and Federal requirements a plus

Capability Requirements

• Robust understanding of risks, tools and management systems across engineering, operational and asset life cycle perspectives
• Proficient change management skills as role will require working with businesses to implement new processes and refine existing ones
• Demonstrates the ability to network internally and externally to develop productive partnerships with the business and collaborate with them to help achieve Company objectives
• Strong verbal and writing skills to ensure effective communications
• Strong engineering, project management and analytical skills 
• Ability to tailor process safety solutions to Company resources and requirements

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