Engineer, Plant

About the role

The Plant Engineer manages and carries out plant-level activities that focus on improving the plant’s infrastructure and utilities. He or she may also support process and reliability engineering when called on to do so.

Responsibilities

• Identify infrastructure and equipment that needs to be repaired, replaced, or improved.
• Develop proposals for projects to correct deficiencies within the area of responsibility.
• Collaborate with the plant project engineer to prepare packages for contractors and vendors and define project scope.
• Ensure that projects stay within budget and alert the plant manager when there are exceptions.
• Support reliability, process, and production engineering tasks and initiatives during peak demand periods or when additional assistance is required.
• Prepare monthly reports on the status of each project and associated KPIs.
• Define, prepare, and submit purchase requisitions into SAP.
• Ensure that projects conform to applicable company standards, codes, and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering is strongly preferred; experience may be substituted for the degree requirement as defined.
• At least five years of experience in refining, natural resource extraction, or specialty chemical manufacturing is required.
• Some of this experience should have been acquired in positions such as process engineer, production engineer, project engineer, project manager, maintenance manager, or construction manager.

Skills

• Ability to develop and sell ideas to improve the cost, schedule, and execution of projects.
• Experience preparing specifications, issuing requisitions, evaluating bids, and dealing effectively with vendors.
• Familiarity with standard industrial construction techniques and applicable OSHA standards.
• Proficiency in SAP and one or more common project management software tools.