Safety Manager Jobs in Houston, TX
Safety Manager jobs in Houston, Texas are in high demand, concentrated in the Energy Corridor, the Ship Channel corridor, and the Texas Medical Center complex, across oil and gas, petrochemical, construction, and healthcare. Employers hiring right now include AmeriGas, The Hunton, and QXO. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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The Process Safety Manager leads Harvest's enterprise process safety function, including the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) program and EPA Risk Management Program (RMP), while serving as a trusted partner to Operations, Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Integrity, and project teams. The role provides leadership for the company's process safety engineering team and is responsible for developing practical, risk-based programs, governance, and tools that strengthen process safety performance while reinforcing operational ownership.
This is a working manager role that combines people leadership with direct technical contribution. The Process Safety Manager develops technical talent, supports complex process safety initiatives, drives continuous improvement through performance data and operational learning, and builds organizational alignment by helping the business apply process safety requirements in a practical, consistent, and collaborative manner.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Lead the company’s process safety program as a service-oriented support function that helps regional teams manage process safety risk effectively while reinforcing local ownership of safe, reliable operations.
- Manage and develop a team of process safety engineers, including workload planning, coaching, performance feedback, career development, succession planning, and talent growth.
- Balance people leadership with hands-on technical contribution by personally supporting priority program work, complex technical issues, and regional team needs where additional expertise or capacity is required.
- Partner with regional Operations, Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Integrity, and project leaders to co-develop process safety priorities, workflows, tools, and implementation plans that are practical, scalable, and supported by the organization.
- Build alignment and buy-in across the company by clarifying process safety roles, accountabilities, decision points, and expectations in a way that supports both governance and operational execution.
- Establish, maintain, and improve processes and workflows for core process safety programs, including PHA, MOC, PSSR, mechanical integrity interfaces, operating procedure support, incident learning, action item management, and EPA’s Risk Management Program-related requirements.
- Provide program oversight for the OSHA Process Safety Management program, EPA’s Risk Management Program, and applicable pipeline safety interfaces, ensuring programs are risk-based, consistently applied, and designed to support the needs of the field.
- Support OSHA Process Safety Management program and EPA Risk Management Program applicability reviews, program maintenance, compliance planning, and coordination with Operations, Engineering, EHS, and regional teams for covered processes and regulated substances.
- Champion process safety culture through field outreach, leadership engagement, education, communications, lessons learned, and practical tools that help employees understand, own, and apply process safety principles.
- Identify resource needs across the organization and work collaboratively with functional and regional leaders to secure the people, tools, training, systems, and support needed to sustain effective process safety programs.
- Use innovation to simplify, standardize, and improve process safety workflows, data visibility, communication methods, and program tools so requirements are easier to understand, adopt, and sustain.
- Monitor process safety performance, audit findings, incident trends, field feedback, action item status, and recurring issues to identify systemic risks and recommend improvement priorities.
- Regularly interact with Asset Teams to understand impacts to operations, ensure programs and processes are in alignment, communicate key metrics and demonstrate value.
- Sponsor corrective action quality and closure discipline by ensuring learnings are translated into durable program improvements with clear ownership and business support.
- Support capital projects and facility changes by helping project and regional teams integrate process safety requirements, risk reviews, and governance expectations into project development and execution workflows.
- Prepare and communicate process safety updates, program health indicators, improvement plans, and risk themes in a way that promotes transparency, shared accountability, and informed decision-making.
- Model Harvest leadership expectations and values, including integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation, by setting clear direction, removing barriers, building trust, and fostering accountability within the team and across stakeholders.
Other Job Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate commitment to company core values — Integrity, Ownership, Urgency, Alignment, and Innovation — in all daily responsibilities and interactions.
- Actively support and contribute to the company’s mission and vision through reliable, high-quality work
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of relevant oil and gas experience, with strong midstream, process safety, operations, engineering, or regulatory program experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading process safety programs, governance systems, audits, EPA’s Risk Management Program activities, and cross-functional improvement initiatives in a collaborative operating environment.
- Strong working knowledge of the OSHA Process Safety Management program, EPA’s Risk Management Program, PHAs, MOC, PSSR, incident investigation, facility siting, consequence modeling, mechanical integrity interfaces, and related process safety practices.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop technical professionals while building trust, alignment, and shared ownership across regional operations, engineering, EHS, maintenance, integrity, and leadership teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, change management, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and innovation skills, with the ability to translate technical risk concepts into practical tools, workflows, and field actions.
Education Requirements, Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related discipline.
- Professional Engineers license, preferred.
About Us
Harvest Midstream is a privately-held midstream services provider headquartered in Houston, Texas with assets in Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, and Texas. Harvest transports and processes oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids across the United States.
The remarkable growth of Harvest since 2002 is a direct result of the hard work and dedication of over 500 employees who are intensely focused on safety, operational excellence and the highest levels of service to our customers. Our company values govern how we run our business, how we treat our fellow employees and how we serve our customers. At Harvest, we are focused on developing and maintaining long-term business relationships through customer service and agility in every business interaction.
Harvest offers its employees competitive salaries, quarterly bonuses, healthcare benefits, a 401k retirement plan, paid time off, and participation in our B.H.A.G. bonus program as part of our total rewards package. Please see our Careers page for opportunities at Harvest.
Harvest Midstream Company is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, and any other basis protected by law. Individuals with disabilities needing assistance in the recruitment process are encouraged to contact Human Resources directly.
The Process Safety Manager leads Harvest's enterprise process safety function, including the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) program and EPA Risk Management Program (RMP), while serving as a trusted partner to Operations, Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Integrity, and project teams. The role provides leadership for the company's process safety engineering team and is responsible for developing practical, risk-based programs, governance, and tools that strengthen process safety performance while reinforcing operational ownership.
This is a working manager role that combines people leadership with direct technical contribution. The Process Safety Manager develops technical talent, supports complex process safety initiatives, drives continuous improvement through performance data and operational learning, and builds organizational alignment by helping the business apply process safety requirements in a practical, consistent, and collaborative manner.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Lead the company’s process safety program as a service-oriented support function that helps regional teams manage process safety risk effectively while reinforcing local ownership of safe, reliable operations.
- Manage and develop a team of process safety engineers, including workload planning, coaching, performance feedback, career development, succession planning, and talent growth.
- Balance people leadership with hands-on technical contribution by personally supporting priority program work, complex technical issues, and regional team needs where additional expertise or capacity is required.
- Partner with regional Operations, Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, Integrity, and project leaders to co-develop process safety priorities, workflows, tools, and implementation plans that are practical, scalable, and supported by the organization.
- Build alignment and buy-in across the company by clarifying process safety roles, accountabilities, decision points, and expectations in a way that supports both governance and operational execution.
- Establish, maintain, and improve processes and workflows for core process safety programs, including PHA, MOC, PSSR, mechanical integrity interfaces, operating procedure support, incident learning, action item management, and EPA’s Risk Management Program-related requirements.
- Provide program oversight for the OSHA Process Safety Management program, EPA’s Risk Management Program, and applicable pipeline safety interfaces, ensuring programs are risk-based, consistently applied, and designed to support the needs of the field.
- Support OSHA Process Safety Management program and EPA Risk Management Program applicability reviews, program maintenance, compliance planning, and coordination with Operations, Engineering, EHS, and regional teams for covered processes and regulated substances.
- Champion process safety culture through field outreach, leadership engagement, education, communications, lessons learned, and practical tools that help employees understand, own, and apply process safety principles.
- Identify resource needs across the organization and work collaboratively with functional and regional leaders to secure the people, tools, training, systems, and support needed to sustain effective process safety programs.
- Use innovation to simplify, standardize, and improve process safety workflows, data visibility, communication methods, and program tools so requirements are easier to understand, adopt, and sustain.
- Monitor process safety performance, audit findings, incident trends, field feedback, action item status, and recurring issues to identify systemic risks and recommend improvement priorities.
- Regularly interact with Asset Teams to understand impacts to operations, ensure programs and processes are in alignment, communicate key metrics and demonstrate value.
- Sponsor corrective action quality and closure discipline by ensuring learnings are translated into durable program improvements with clear ownership and business support.
- Support capital projects and facility changes by helping project and regional teams integrate process safety requirements, risk reviews, and governance expectations into project development and execution workflows.
- Prepare and communicate process safety updates, program health indicators, improvement plans, and risk themes in a way that promotes transparency, shared accountability, and informed decision-making.
- Model Harvest leadership expectations and values, including integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation, by setting clear direction, removing barriers, building trust, and fostering accountability within the team and across stakeholders.
Other Job Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate commitment to company core values — Integrity, Ownership, Urgency, Alignment, and Innovation — in all daily responsibilities and interactions.
- Actively support and contribute to the company’s mission and vision through reliable, high-quality work
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of relevant oil and gas experience, with strong midstream, process safety, operations, engineering, or regulatory program experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading process safety programs, governance systems, audits, EPA’s Risk Management Program activities, and cross-functional improvement initiatives in a collaborative operating environment.
- Strong working knowledge of the OSHA Process Safety Management program, EPA’s Risk Management Program, PHAs, MOC, PSSR, incident investigation, facility siting, consequence modeling, mechanical integrity interfaces, and related process safety practices.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop technical professionals while building trust, alignment, and shared ownership across regional operations, engineering, EHS, maintenance, integrity, and leadership teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, change management, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and innovation skills, with the ability to translate technical risk concepts into practical tools, workflows, and field actions.
Education Requirements, Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related discipline.
- Professional Engineers license, preferred.
About Us
Harvest Midstream is a privately-held midstream services provider headquartered in Houston, Texas with assets in Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, and Texas. Harvest transports and processes oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids across the United States.
The remarkable growth of Harvest since 2002 is a direct result of the hard work and dedication of over 500 employees who are intensely focused on safety, operational excellence and the highest levels of service to our customers. Our company values govern how we run our business, how we treat our fellow employees and how we serve our customers. At Harvest, we are focused on developing and maintaining long-term business relationships through customer service and agility in every business interaction.
Harvest offers its employees competitive salaries, quarterly bonuses, healthcare benefits, a 401k retirement plan, paid time off, and participation in our B.H.A.G. bonus program as part of our total rewards package. Please see our Careers page for opportunities at Harvest.
Harvest Midstream Company is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, and any other basis protected by law. Individuals with disabilities needing assistance in the recruitment process are encouraged to contact Human Resources directly.
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Who's Hiring
- AmeriGas15
- The Hunton15
- QXO7
- ESFM7
- Hoar7H
Top Industries Hiring
- Construction & Real Estate15
- Technology & Software7
- Consulting & Professional Services7
Safety Manager Jobs in Houston: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a safety manager job in Houston?
Focus your search on Houston's dominant hiring sectors: oil and gas operators, petrochemical refineries, heavy construction contractors, and large healthcare systems like those anchored in the Texas Medical Center. Roles concentrate in the Energy Corridor, Pasadena, La Porte, and the Ship Channel industrial belt. Candidates with OSHA 30 certification, process safety management experience, and PSM refinery or offshore exposure stand out most in this market.
Which companies hire safety managers in Houston?
Houston safety manager roles are posted by AmeriGas, The Hunton, and QXO and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. The Houston market is particularly deep in energy majors, EPC contractors, and petrochemical operators, many of which maintain large in-house safety departments across multiple local facilities.
Are there remote safety manager jobs in Houston?
Yes, but only for a narrow slice of the role. Safety management is largely hands-on and site-dependent, so fully remote positions are rare. About 33% of safety manager openings tied to Houston are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, and those positions typically cover desk-based functions like compliance auditing, EHS program development, or corporate safety consulting rather than field supervision.
How can I get a safety manager job in Houston with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Houston is through a safety coordinator or EHS technician role at a construction GC, an industrial services firm, or a petrochemical contractor in Pasadena or Baytown. Those employers hire entry-level candidates and promote from within. Earning your OSHA 30-hour construction or general industry card before applying gives you a concrete credential that Houston industrial employers look for in early-career candidates.
Which industries hire the most safety managers in Houston?
Most safety manager openings in Houston sit in Construction & Real Estate, Technology & Software, and Consulting & Professional Services, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Houston's concentration of refineries, chemical plants, offshore support operations, and large hospital systems creates sustained local demand that consistently outpaces most other U.S. metro areas for this role.
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