Process Safety Engineer

Tesla is seeking a talented Engineer dedicated to Process Safety at Gigafactory Texas.

• 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.

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