HSRC Plant Engineer II

About the role

Plant engineering for the design, troubleshooting, revamp and/or new construction, maintenance and reliability of refinery process equipment and facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide on-demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups.
• Serve as a skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
• Develop technical solutions independently based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
• Serve as a “go-to” technical resource for assigned area or technology to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
• Apply engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
• Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.
• Develop detailed scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for small-medium scale projects (<$1MM) by using company’s project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).
• Provide equipment repair, replacement and metallurgical recommendations.
• Participate in formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.
• Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
• Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
• Audit Maintenance and Operations practices to improve reliability and operability of refinery process equipment.
• Coordinate services of engineering and other consultants as required.
• Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
• Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
• Aid in the development and implementation of training programs as needed for others in the engineering, maintenance, and operations departments.
• Communicate with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities.
• Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.
• Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.
• Interact with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.

Interpersonal Skills

• Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.
• Exemplify the company core values: Commitment to Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Teamwork, Creativity, Humility and Community-Centric.
• Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.
• Handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment.
• Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.
• Multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery, and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects.
• Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.
• Lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
• Pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.
• Show willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

Leadership Skills

• Proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat.
• Lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
• Pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.
• Show willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

Education and Experience

• B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Three to six years in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other related industrial experience.

Additional Information

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Leadership and motivational skills for peers.
• Self-motivated with desire to learn and develop new skills.
• Exhibit a “can do” attitude and spirit of cooperation.
• Support management objectives.
• Subject to periodic “on-call” duty and non-scheduled call-in/overtime assignments.