Chemical Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Providing technical assistance, process improvement, and manufacturing support for Manufacturing, Utilities, and Maintenance.
• Managing the Pressure Vessel program including calculating and selecting relief devices, conservation vents, flame arrestors, and rupture disks; maintaining the pressure vessel database; coordinating with the appropriate state agencies for inspections and licensing; and providing input to the Plant Process Safety Review Committee and other project engineers on safe implementation of engineering design criteria.
• Solving mechanical engineering problems and distinguishing between the relative merits of different plans and designs.
• Occasional civil and structural design.
• Troubleshooting and identifying root causes of mechanical problems.
• Working with Chemical Manufacturing, Utilities, and Maintenance to provide mechanical engineering support for continued production.
• Knowledge of materials of construction, heat exchangers, pumps, centrifuges, pressure relief devices, piping specifications, and other industrial equipment.
• Working in teams or independently to increase production capacity, improve mechanical integrity, provide safer operations, or reduce energy requirements.
• Applying sound process economics analysis principles to determine and document project values.
• Evaluating and specifying new mechanical equipment.
• Maintaining awareness and ties to corporate engineering practices and engineering resources to help implement projects.
• Aiding in the definition and implementation of capital projects that will result in process improvements or increased capacity.
• Managing several projects simultaneously and regularly communicating progress to stakeholders.
• Following safety and quality procedures.

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from an ABET-accredited curriculum (or equivalent).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently perform professional engineering work of difficult and complicated nature.
• Leadership ability, including directing, training, developing, and planning the work of others.