Chemical Engineer

About the role

Chemours is seeking an early career Manufacturing Technology Chemical Engineer to join our growing Technology team. This position will report directly to the Manufacturing Technology Manager at our New Johnsonville, TN location. This Engineer will provide support to manufacturing operations to maintain production performance, including continuous improvement activities, technical equipment expertise, process troubleshooting, and leading problem solving on equipment or quality issues. The Engineer works closely with the Technology Manager and Operations to upgrade products, processes, and equipment by implementing modifications ranging from incremental daily improvements to technology game changes.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support to the manufacturing area operations including daily monitoring of the process, interaction with operating technicians, troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Lead and/or participate in Process Safety Management (PSM) related activities such as Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) reviews, Pre-Start Up Safety Reviews (PSSR), Process Technology, and other technical and safety reviews.
• Provide engineering expertise on reactors, heat, and mass transfer, mixing systems, filtration, solids separation, natural gas burners and drying technologies, bulk solids handling, etc.
• Initiate Management of Change (MOC's) to the process to improve the safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Work on continuous improvement activities to improve area performance.
• Lead Cost Reduction improvement initiatives from ideation through completion and validation of savings.
• Perform tests on the process to improve the safety, quality, environment, and/or cost of the production unit.
• Assist capital project front-end loading to ensure equipment specified meets process requirements at the highest uptime and lowest life cycle cost. Provide process support to all project phases.
• Update, review and approve process technology documents such as Operating procedures, P&ID's and SOC's to meet PSM and Corporate standards.
• Mentoring and assisting in operations training.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an ABET accredited institution in Chemical Engineering.
• At least 6 months of manufacturing or industrial experience (includes co-op/internship experience).
• Demonstrated ability to apply technical knowledge to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve problems.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and manage multiple, complex, time-sensitive projects.
• Collaborate in a team environment with high degree of initiative and self-motivation and flexibility to monitor and move projects forward quickly and safely.
• Support process troubleshooting in the field and hands on work with Technicians as requested.

Preferred qualifications

• Working knowledge of any of the following: data analytics and statistics using tools like 6-Sigma, Design of Experiments, Minitab, SEEQ, Power BI, MS Excel, statistical process control for quality management, Root Cause Analysis, and process engineering modeling tools (Aspen, Fathom, etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Benefits Packages
• 401(k) Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Strong Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives
• Company-paid Volunteer Day

Pay

• Pay Range: $73,947.00 - $115,542.00
• Chemours Level 23
• Annual Bonus Target: 6%