Director of Business Development

Location: Houston, TX

Our ideal candidate will report to the President & CEO and will be an energetic go-getter, experienced in working collaboratively with Key managers, Section Leaders and the business development and marketing team to cultivate and grow new and existing accounts within the oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical industries. This individual will assist in defining long-term, strategic organizational goals; build key customer relationships; identify business opportunities; negotiate and close business deals; and, maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions.

Some of the responsibilities for this position will include:

• Build and maintain customer relationships
• Maximize revenue through the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of strategic sales and service plans with key clients
• Identify business opportunities
• Negotiate and close business deals
• Pursue sales leads and prospective clients
• Deliver presentations and proposals
• Develop business plans that include marketing strategies
• Maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions and report this to key staff

The successful applicant must have:

• Demonstrated ability to develop and grow new accounts
• Strong solution selling experience
• Excellent communication, analytical and financial skills
• Strong leadership capabilities
• Proven revenue generation, strategy and management experience
• Knowledge of the oil, gas, petrochemical and chemical industry as it relates to safety and risk management

This position may require travel to client and projects sites as well as industry related conferences or tradeshows. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree in business or industry related field and must be legally authorized to work in the United States. A minimum of 5 years’ business development or sales experience in the oil, gas, petrochemical and chemical industry is necessary. This position must have previous experience managing and leading the sales effort for markets, regions and/or territory.

Senior Relief Systems Consultant

Location: Houston, TX

The ideal candidate will report to a unit or section leader and will evaluate and design pressure relief and flare systems for clients in the oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical industry. As a member of a growing company, this individual must be able to hit the ground running and possess strong project management skills to manage cases, define resource plans, designate and schedule resources, develop budgets and approve invoicing, maintain project schedules and ensure timely delivery of products or reports within the project scope. This individual will guide and help to develop junior staff and will provide QA/QC of project deliverables.

The successful applicant must have:

• Excellent engineering, mathematical, computational and design skills
• Experience managing projects and teams
• Experience facilitating large groups of senior staff
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to present the work of others both to internal staff and external clients
• Good computer literacy and familiarity with process simulation/dispersion modeling software
• Experience supervising and training staff

A minimum of 5 years’ Pressure Relief and Flare Systems (PRFS) Design experience in the oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical industry required. This position may require travel to client site. Applicants should have a BS in Chemical Engineering and must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Senior Safety and Risk Management Consultant

Location: Minneapolis, MN; Salem, NH; Houston, TX

The ideal candidate must be experienced in all aspects of process safety and risk management and be able to work effectively with clients in helping them implement their process safety management programs. Experience in the oil and gas, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries is desired.

The successful applicants must have:

• Process hazard analysis including HAZOP, fault tree analysis and layer of protection analysis
• Safety integrity level analysis
• Fixed facility and transportation quantitative risk assessment
• Process safety management auditing
• Incident investigation and root cause analysis
• Dust explosion hazard analysis
• Chemical reactivity hazards
• Facility siting analysis
• Software for documenting process hazard analyses and audits, and conducting consequence and risk analyses
• Training
• Project management experience
• Good written and oral communication skills

The position will require travel for work provided at client sites. Applicants should have a BS in Engineering (preferably in Chemical Engineering) and must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sales and marketing experience for consulting services are required. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in process safety is necessary.

Safety and Risk Management Analyst -- 2013 Positions Filled

Check back, we will begin 2014 recruiting in August 2013!

Location: Minneapolis, MN; Houston, TX

Our ideal candidates will be detail-oriented chemical engineering graduates with a desire to succeed and a willingness to learn. You will be provided with a mentor to train you in the finer aspects of process safety and risk management, and to further develop your engineering skills. Upon developing the necessary skills you will be working as a key member of our team executing projects for the world’s largest production companies.

Some of the responsibilities for this position will include:

• Evaluating and designing pressure relief systems
• Developing detailed safety and risk management design documentation
• Delivering high-quality technical evaluations
• Providing support for on-going safety and risk management case work including LNG hazard analysis, HAZOP support, and litigation services

The successful applicants must have:

• Communication skills, including willingness to interact with various people
• High efficiency and organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Technical writing capabilities, including presentation of technical material in a logical, usable manner
• Problem-solving abilities, including systematic approach to identification of problems and implementation of solutions

Applicants should have a BS in Engineering and must be legally authorized to work in the United States.