Jim Jenkins

Safety Engineer

USA

Jim Jenkins, CFSE, is a Senior Functional Safety Engineer at exida Consulting, LLC. He has 31 years’ experience in the Process Industry with 26 years as an end user and 5 years in Functional Safety consulting. His end user experience consisted of 3 years in Instrumentation Maintenance, 16 years in Process Control and 7 years as an Instrumentation Reliability Engineer. Jim currently helps end users with analysis, design, implementation, validation, operations and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). He developed and teaches “Applying IEC 61511 to Burner Management Systems (BMS)”. He also has expertise providing Alarm Management services in creating an Alarm Philosophy, Alarm Rationalization and training end users. Jim is also an ISA84 Safety Instrumented Systems Expert, a member of ISA-84 committee (Functional Safety) and ISA-18 committee (Alarm Management).