Global Process Engineer, Partial Oxida

About the role

This position serves as LyondellBasell’s subject matter expert for Partial Oxidation units. It is part of the Global Process Engineering group and is located at the LaPorte Syngas/MeOH plant.

Responsibilities

- Collaborates with operations to identify new opportunities to remove constraints to maximize on-stream time and profitability while ensuring safe, environmentally compliant, reliable operation. - Analyzes complex operating issues and provides recommendations to improve performance. - Supports gap closure and continuous improvement activities by providing technical expertise, engineering calculations, and justification for capital and expense projects. - Leads capital, expense, and special project scope development, execution, and support. - Provides technical expertise during troubleshooting, turnarounds, startups, shutdowns, catalyst changes, and other non-routine unit activities.

Requirements

- Education: B.S. or higher degree in chemical engineering or related field. - Work Experience: 10 or more years’ experience in manufacturing with background in partial oxidation and syngas-methanol production. - Area of Expertise, Requirements: - Mastery of technical understanding of unit processes and application of unit operations principles such as mass and energy balances, fluids, thermodynamics, mass and heat transfer, and distillation. - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams and interact with all levels of the organization. - Strong process troubleshooting ability and knowledge of tools and resources to perform activities. - Innovative thinking to solve complex issues. - Self-motivation and high initiative. - Strong understanding of creating and implementing capital and expense projects. - Strong interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and coach technical and operations team members.

Qualifications

Fluent in written and spoken English.

Skills

- Proficient in process modelling software.