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The role is accountable for establishing and sustaining an integrated, risk-based emergency management program that protects personnel, the public, the environment, physical assets, and continuity of operations.\nThis position serves as the site subject matter expert for LNG emergency response planning, industrial firefighting, incident command, fire protection system assurance, tactical response planning, emergency drills and exercises, and coordination with regulatory agencies, local authorities, mutual-aid partners, and external emergency services. The incumbent translates credible major accident scenarios and operating risks into executable response strategies, trained team capabilities, reliable equipment, and measurable readiness standards.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nEmergency Response Program LeadershipOwn, develop, implement, and continuously improve the facility Emergency Response Program across LNG process areas, storage, utilities, marine terminal, warehouses, laboratories, administration buildings, and associated infrastructure.\nEstablish the emergency management governance model, response philosophy, team structure, command roles, escalation criteria, duty coverage, callout arrangements, and readiness expectations.\nMaintain integrated emergency plans and procedures for credible fires, releases, explosions, medical emergencies, marine events, security events, severe weather, natural hazards, utility failures, and other foreseeable emergencies.\nEnsure emergency plans are controlled, accessible, exercised, reviewed following material changes and incidents, and integrated with operating, maintenance, security, medical, environmental, and business continuity arrangements.\nProvide emergency preparedness reports, readiness metrics, risk-based priorities, resource needs, and improvement recommendations to site and corporate leadership.\n\nEmergency Response Teams and CompetencyLead the design, staffing, organization, qualification, and ongoing development of the Emergency Response Team and industrial fire brigade.\nDefine responder roles and competency profiles for incident commanders, fire team leaders, firefighters, hazardous materials responders, rescue personnel, medical responders, control room personnel, accountability coordinators, and support functions.\nEstablish initial, refresher, practical, and scenario-based training requirements commensurate with assigned duties and foreseeable LNG emergencies.\nMaintain training records, qualification matrices, physical capability requirements, respiratory protection readiness, PPE requirements, and periodic competency verification.\nDevelop instructors, assessors, team leaders, and succession capability to sustain emergency response coverage through all operating conditions.\n\nFire Protection and Firefighting EquipmentProvide technical authority and lifecycle oversight for firewater pumps, storage, distribution, hydrants, monitors, hose systems, foam systems, deluge and water spray systems, fixed extinguishing systems, portable extinguishers, fire and gas detection, alarms, emergency communications, breathing apparatus, protective clothing, rescue tools, and response vehicles.\nDevelop risk-based inspection, testing, preventive maintenance, impairment, isolation, compensatory-measure, and restoration requirements in partnership with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, and Reliability.\nReview system availability, deficiencies, impairments, overdue tests, equipment obsolescence, spare-parts risks, and temporary arrangements affecting emergency response capability.\nParticipate in acceptance testing, commissioning, functional performance testing, firewater flow testing, foam proportioning tests, alarm testing, and verification of emergency system interfaces.\nEnsure emergency equipment inventories, inspection records, location plans, operating instructions, and deployment strategies remain current and readily available.\n\nFire Engineering and Safety Critical ElementsProvide fire engineering input to design, Management of Change, hazard reviews, facility modifications, temporary operations, shutdowns, commissioning, startup, and major maintenance activities.\nReview fire hazard analyses, code studies, firewater demand, hydraulic calculations, foam application strategies, passive fire protection, fireproofing, detection coverage, egress, access, spacing, and emergency isolation assumptions.\nIdentify fire protection and emergency response systems designated as Safety Critical Elements and support development of measurable performance standards covering functionality, availability, reliability, survivability, and dependency.\nLead or participate in assurance activities that verify Safety Critical Elements can perform their required function under major accident conditions.\nAssess barrier impairments and degraded emergency capability, recommend compensatory controls, define escalation thresholds, and support timely restoration decisions.\n\nMajor Accident Scenarios and Tactical Response PlanningTranslate hazard studies, consequence assessments, fire and explosion analyses, emergency planning assumptions, and operating experience into scenario-specific Tactical Response Plans.\nDevelop tactics for LNG and hydrocarbon releases, vapor cloud movement, pool and jet fires, equipment fires, tank and impoundment events, loading-arm or ship-shore transfer incidents, toxic releases, confined-space rescue, high-angle rescue, and multiple-casualty events.\nDefine safe approach routes, staging areas, exclusion zones, command posts, firefighting media, water and foam demand, equipment placement, responder limitations, withdrawal criteria, evacuation actions, and public-protection interfaces.\nValidate tactical plans through field walkdowns, tabletop exercises, functional drills, simulations, and full-scale exercises, and revise plans using lessons learned.\nEnsure response tactics recognize the limitations of intervention and prioritize life safety, isolation, controlled shutdown, exposure protection, containment, and escalation prevention.\n\nDrills, Exercises, Assurance, and LearningDevelop and execute an annual, risk-based drill and exercise program that tests individuals, teams, command functions, communications, accountability, evacuation, firefighting, rescue, medical response, mutual aid, and external-agency interfaces.\nEstablish exercise objectives, evaluation criteria, controller and evaluator arrangements, safety plans, after-action reviews, corrective actions, and closure verification.\nConduct readiness audits, field inspections, equipment deployment drills, unannounced callout tests, and assurance reviews to verify sustained capability.\nLead emergency response debriefs and support investigations following actual events, near misses, alarms, system failures, and significant exercises.\nTrack lessons learned and ensure improvements are incorporated into plans, equipment, staffing, training, design, and operating practices.\n\nLegal, Regulatory, and External CoordinationMaintain a compliance register and assurance program for applicable emergency response and fire protection obligations, permit commitments, approved manuals, company standards, and Authority Having Jurisdiction requirements.\nSupport regulatory inspections, audits, information requests, plan reviews, readiness demonstrations, and corrective-action commitments involving PHMSA, FERC, USCG, OSHA, Texas authorities, and local jurisdictions.\nCoordinate with local fire departments, emergency medical services, law enforcement, Local Emergency Planning Committees, port stakeholders, public officials, hospitals, contractors, and mutual-aid organizations.\nMaintain mutual-aid arrangements and ensure external responders understand plant hazards, site access, emergency control capabilities, firefighting resources, communications, and command interfaces.\nMonitor changes to laws, regulations, codes, standards, permits, and recognized industry practice, and lead implementation of applicable changes through the management system.\n\nOther ResponsibilitiesPartner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Marine Operations, Security, Medical, Environmental, Projects, Legal, Contracts, Procurement, and Communications to integrate emergency preparedness into business and operational decisions.\nProvide emergency response and fire protection input to budgets, staffing plans, contracts, equipment specifications, service agreements, capital projects, and long-range asset plans.\nServe in assigned incident command or emergency management roles during actual incidents and exercises.\nParticipate in the site on-call duty schedule and maintain readiness to support emergencies and critical operational activities.\n\nMinimum Requirements:\nBachelor's degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Fire Science, Emergency Management, Safety, Engineering, or related technical discipline.\nMinimum 10 years of progressive experience with industrial emergency response, firefighting, fire protection, or emergency management experience.\nMinimum 5 years supporting LNG, gas processing, refining, petrochemical, chemical, terminal, or other major-hazard operations.\nExperience leading an industrial emergency response team, fire brigade, incident command function, or comparable emergency organization.\nDemonstrated working knowledge of NFPA 59A and the NFPA standards applicable to industrial fire protection, emergency response, inspection, testing, maintenance, 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