Manufacturing Engineer
Ascend Performance Materials · Alvin, TX · 4 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real content.
From posting: There's Company Overview, Position Overview, Targeted Outcomes, Key Responsibilities (with subparts), Required Experience Education..., Desired Certification, Required Skills, About Us, Why work at Ascend? (values), EEO statement (to remove). Also there is no explicit Pay, Benefits, Schedule. So we should not create those sections.
We need to preserve all substantive info, but remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "At Ascend Performance Materials, we value transparency..." that's about recruitment policy - maybe considered boilerplate? It's about hiring process; not sure if to remove. It's not EEO but it's about unsolicited resumes. Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The recruitment policy is not exactly those, but could be considered legal? Might be safe to keep? It's about hiring process; not application instructions. Might keep as part of "About Us" or separate? But we can incorporate into a short paragraph.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. The job title is "Operations Manufacturing Engineer". Not to repeat as heading.
We need to use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real content.
From posting: There's Company Overview, Position Overview, Targeted Outcomes, Key Responsibilities (with subparts), Required Experience Education..., Desired Certification, Required Skills, About Us, Why work at Ascend? (values), EEO statement (to remove). Also there is no explicit Pay, Benefits, Schedule. So we should not create those sections.
We need to preserve all substantive info, but remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "At Ascend Performance Materials, we value transparency..." that's about recruitment policy - maybe considered boilerplate? It's about hiring process; not sure if to remove. It's not EEO but it's about unsolicited resumes. Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The recruitment policy is not exactly those, but could be considered legal? Might be safe to keep? It's about hiring process; not application instructions. Might keep as part of "About Us" or separate? But we can incorporate into a short paragraph.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. The job title is "Operations Manufacturing Engineer". Not to repeat as heading.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe Position Overview), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements (Required Experience Education etc), Qualifications (maybe Desired Certification?), Skills (Required Skills), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (none). Also maybe "Company Overview" could be part of About the role? But we have Company Overview separate; could be included as part of About the role? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to those headings.
Thus:
About the role
: combine Company Overview and Position Overview? Probably Position Overview describes role. Company Overview is about company; could be included but maybe better as separate? But we only have those headings; we could put company overview in About the role as well. Or we could add a separate heading like "Company Overview" but not allowed? The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings. It might be okay to add other headings if needed, but better to stick to those. We'll put company overview in About the role.
Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities with subparts.
Requirements: Required Experience Education etc.
Qualifications: Desired Certification maybe.
Skills: Required Skills.
We also have Targeted Outcomes; could be part of Responsibilities or separate? Could be included under Responsibilities as bullet list.
We also have "Why work at Ascend?" and OARS values; could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "About Us". But we don't have a heading for About Us; we could incorporate into About the role.
We must remove duplicated lines: there is repeated "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics." appears multiple times. We should keep only once.
We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like percentages (40% AREA SUPPORT etc). We need to format as list.
Let's extract content.
Company Overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is a global leader in high-performance chemicals, fibers, and plastics, committed to enhancing quality of life through innovation. With fully integrated manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, we develop essential solutions that drive safer vehicles, cleaner energy, advanced medical devices, and durable consumer goods. Guided by a strong focus on safety, sustainability, and customer success, we operate responsibly while delivering value through cutting-edge technologies and industry expertise."
Position Overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world-scale integrated manufacturing facilities, we are able to develop new products from our core technologies and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of our customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution with five manufacturing facilities in the United States. The primary purpose of the Operations Manufacturing Engineer is to provide engineering support to operate the unit safely, reliably, and to optimize the process by driving operational entitlement through the use of advanced optimization methods and identification of ideas to drive step-change technology improvements. The Operations Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for unit operating performance to include production, raw material usage, energy usage, quality, daily performance tracking, troubleshooting and will drive execution of A2E projects."
Targeted Outcomes: list bullet points.
Key Responsibilities: broken into 40% AREA SUPPORT, 40% UNIT OPTIMIZATION, 20% TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT. Each with bullet points.
Required Experience Education: "BS in Engineering preferably Chemical or Mechanical; 0-3 years of chemical industry experience; Process optimization background; Experience troubleshooting in a plant environment"
Desired Certification: "Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt) trained, certification preferred"
Required Skills: list: "ASPEN products, heat transfer, hydraulics, etc.; Knowledge of Process Safety Management is essential; Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to innovate and solve complex problems; Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams; Strong communication skills, both oral and written; Ability to provide off-hours plant support is essential; Ability to perform in a highly dynamic work environment; Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and manage projects from beginning to successful completion"
About Us/Why work at Ascend? includes vision, OARS values, etc. We'll include as prose.
We must not include EEO statement at end.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
About the role
Company overview paragraph + Position overview paragraph (maybe combined). Ensure not duplicate.
Responsibilities
- 40% AREA SUPPORT: ... (list items)
... etc.
But we need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So each responsibility area could be a
- with sublist? Could nest lists. We'll do outer
for each major area, and inside each - we can have
for subitems.
Similarly for Requirements: list of items.
Qualifications: list.
Skills: list.
We'll also include Targeted Outcomes as part of Responsibilities maybe as a separate - under Responsibilities? Could be separate section but we don't have heading for Outcomes. Could embed under Responsibilities as a
- with heading "Targeted Outcomes". That seems okay.
Let's craft.
First, About the role paragraph:
Combine company overview and position overview but avoid duplicate sentences. The company overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is a global leader in high-performance chemicals, fibers, and plastics, committed to enhancing quality of life through innovation. With fully integrated manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, we develop essential solutions that drive safer vehicles, cleaner energy, advanced medical devices, and durable consumer goods. Guided by a strong focus on safety, sustainability, and customer success, we operate responsibly while delivering value through cutting-edge technologies and industry expertise."
Position overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world-scale integrated manufacturing facilities, we are able to develop new products from our core technologies and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of our customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution with five manufacturing facilities in the United States. The primary purpose of the Operations Manufacturing Engineer is to provide engineering support to operate the unit safely, reliably, and to optimize the process by driving operational entitlement through the use of advanced optimization methods and identification of ideas to drive step-change technology improvements. The Operations Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for unit operating performance to include production, raw material usage, energy usage, quality, daily performance tracking, troubleshooting and will drive execution of A2E projects."
Note duplicate phrase "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics." appears also in company overview? Actually company overview says "global leader". Not duplicate. So we keep both.
We'll merge into one paragraph maybe two sentences.
Now Responsibilities:
We have three areas.
Area Support bullet points:
- Monitor unit performance on a weekly and monthly basis by tracking key process indicators (KPI’s) and key operating parameters (KOP’s); setting targets for short interval controls (SIC’s)
- Actively support the site and area safety programs via participation (or leadership) in PHA, LOPA, MOC, incident investigations, resolution of action items, and other activities to ensure safe operation and regulatory compliance.
- Facilitate MOCs originating from unit needs
- Update and maintain unit process safety information
- Troubleshoot and optimize of the process to address gaps identified through performance monitoring
- Work with reliability to provide technical support for RCA’s
- Assist in delivering technical training to operators
- Own the Consequences of Deviation procedures
- Execute annual productivity plans
- Participate on HCN team
Unit Optimization:
- Evaluate performance using the A2E (DMAIC) process and statistical tools to make process improvements
- Use entitlement models to challenge and improve unit performance
- Develop unit production expertise, continuously building a body of technical knowledge around unit operations and processes
- Deliver tools and processes to enhance performance tracking and drive improvements
- Assist with production planning, tracking, and closing
Technology Improvement:
- Develop high-level project scopes (option and benefit analysis) for unit related improvement projects
- Represent the unit for all technology (R&D) projects
- Facilitate idea management and vetting for unit improvement ideas - Generate innovative ideas for process improvements and work with Technology, Process Engineering, and Project Engineering to screen such ideas.
- Interface with specialists to:
* Optimize the current process using operational entitlement models
* Implement new technology projects
* Implement advanced performance tracking tools
- Interface with process engineering to:
* Initiate projects to improve the process
* Escalate technical issues which require advanced modelling
- Accounting and categorization of daily production losses
We need to keep the sub-bullets as nested lists.
Now Requirements:
- BS in Engineering preferably Chemical or Mechanical
- 0-3 years of chemical industry experience
- Process optimization background
- Experience troubleshooting in a plant environment
Qualifications:
- Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt) trained, certification preferred
Skills:
- ASPEN products, heat transfer, hydraulics, etc.
- Knowledge of Process Safety Management is essential
- Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to innovate and solve complex problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to provide off-hours plant support is essential
- Ability to perform in a highly dynamic work environment
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and manage projects from beginning to successful completion
Now About Us/Why work at Ascend? We'll include as a paragraph under About the role maybe after position overview, or we could add a separate
About the company
but not in list. Safer to add as another About the company
but instruction says use those headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities... It didn't forbid others but said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)". It implies those are examples; we could still use other headings but better to stick to those
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe Position Overview), Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Requirements (Required Experience Education etc), Qualifications (maybe Desired Certification?), Skills (Required Skills), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (none). Also maybe "Company Overview" could be part of About the role? But we have Company Overview separate; could be included as part of About the role? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to those headings. Thus:
About the role
: combine Company Overview and Position Overview? Probably Position Overview describes role. Company Overview is about company; could be included but maybe better as separate? But we only have those headings; we could put company overview in About the role as well. Or we could add a separate heading like "Company Overview" but not allowed? The instruction says usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings. It might be okay to add other headings if needed, but better to stick to those. We'll put company overview in About the role. Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities with subparts. Requirements: Required Experience Education etc. Qualifications: Desired Certification maybe. Skills: Required Skills. We also have Targeted Outcomes; could be part of Responsibilities or separate? Could be included under Responsibilities as bullet list. We also have "Why work at Ascend?" and OARS values; could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "About Us". But we don't have a heading for About Us; we could incorporate into About the role. We must remove duplicated lines: there is repeated "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics." appears multiple times. We should keep only once. We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like percentages (40% AREA SUPPORT etc). We need to format as list. Let's extract content. Company Overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is a global leader in high-performance chemicals, fibers, and plastics, committed to enhancing quality of life through innovation. With fully integrated manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, we develop essential solutions that drive safer vehicles, cleaner energy, advanced medical devices, and durable consumer goods. Guided by a strong focus on safety, sustainability, and customer success, we operate responsibly while delivering value through cutting-edge technologies and industry expertise." Position Overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world-scale integrated manufacturing facilities, we are able to develop new products from our core technologies and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of our customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution with five manufacturing facilities in the United States. The primary purpose of the Operations Manufacturing Engineer is to provide engineering support to operate the unit safely, reliably, and to optimize the process by driving operational entitlement through the use of advanced optimization methods and identification of ideas to drive step-change technology improvements. The Operations Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for unit operating performance to include production, raw material usage, energy usage, quality, daily performance tracking, troubleshooting and will drive execution of A2E projects." Targeted Outcomes: list bullet points. Key Responsibilities: broken into 40% AREA SUPPORT, 40% UNIT OPTIMIZATION, 20% TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT. Each with bullet points. Required Experience Education: "BS in Engineering preferably Chemical or Mechanical; 0-3 years of chemical industry experience; Process optimization background; Experience troubleshooting in a plant environment" Desired Certification: "Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt) trained, certification preferred" Required Skills: list: "ASPEN products, heat transfer, hydraulics, etc.; Knowledge of Process Safety Management is essential; Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to innovate and solve complex problems; Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams; Strong communication skills, both oral and written; Ability to provide off-hours plant support is essential; Ability to perform in a highly dynamic work environment; Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and manage projects from beginning to successful completion" About Us/Why work at Ascend? includes vision, OARS values, etc. We'll include as prose. We must not include EEO statement at end. Now produce HTML. Structure:
About the role
Company overview paragraph + Position overview paragraph (maybe combined). Ensure not duplicate.
Responsibilities
- 40% AREA SUPPORT: ... (list items) ... etc. But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So each responsibility area could be a
- with sublist? Could nest lists. We'll do outer
- for each major area, and inside each
- we can have
- for subitems.
Similarly for Requirements: list of items.
Qualifications: list.
Skills: list.
We'll also include Targeted Outcomes as part of Responsibilities maybe as a separate
- under Responsibilities? Could be separate section but we don't have heading for Outcomes. Could embed under Responsibilities as a
- with heading "Targeted Outcomes". That seems okay.
Let's craft.
First, About the role paragraph:
Combine company overview and position overview but avoid duplicate sentences. The company overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is a global leader in high-performance chemicals, fibers, and plastics, committed to enhancing quality of life through innovation. With fully integrated manufacturing facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia, we develop essential solutions that drive safer vehicles, cleaner energy, advanced medical devices, and durable consumer goods. Guided by a strong focus on safety, sustainability, and customer success, we operate responsibly while delivering value through cutting-edge technologies and industry expertise."
Position overview: "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. With world-scale integrated manufacturing facilities, we are able to develop new products from our core technologies and provide flexibility to respond to the expanding needs of our customers. Ascend has global sales and distribution with five manufacturing facilities in the United States. The primary purpose of the Operations Manufacturing Engineer is to provide engineering support to operate the unit safely, reliably, and to optimize the process by driving operational entitlement through the use of advanced optimization methods and identification of ideas to drive step-change technology improvements. The Operations Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for unit operating performance to include production, raw material usage, energy usage, quality, daily performance tracking, troubleshooting and will drive execution of A2E projects."
Note duplicate phrase "Ascend Performance Materials is the premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics." appears also in company overview? Actually company overview says "global leader". Not duplicate. So we keep both.
We'll merge into one paragraph maybe two sentences.
Now Responsibilities:
We have three areas.
Area Support bullet points:
- Monitor unit performance on a weekly and monthly basis by tracking key process indicators (KPI’s) and key operating parameters (KOP’s); setting targets for short interval controls (SIC’s)
- Actively support the site and area safety programs via participation (or leadership) in PHA, LOPA, MOC, incident investigations, resolution of action items, and other activities to ensure safe operation and regulatory compliance.
- Facilitate MOCs originating from unit needs
- Update and maintain unit process safety information
- Troubleshoot and optimize of the process to address gaps identified through performance monitoring
- Work with reliability to provide technical support for RCA’s
- Assist in delivering technical training to operators
- Own the Consequences of Deviation procedures
- Execute annual productivity plans
- Participate on HCN team
Unit Optimization:
- Evaluate performance using the A2E (DMAIC) process and statistical tools to make process improvements
- Use entitlement models to challenge and improve unit performance
- Develop unit production expertise, continuously building a body of technical knowledge around unit operations and processes
- Deliver tools and processes to enhance performance tracking and drive improvements
- Assist with production planning, tracking, and closing
Technology Improvement:
- Develop high-level project scopes (option and benefit analysis) for unit related improvement projects
- Represent the unit for all technology (R&D) projects
- Facilitate idea management and vetting for unit improvement ideas - Generate innovative ideas for process improvements and work with Technology, Process Engineering, and Project Engineering to screen such ideas.
- Interface with specialists to:
* Optimize the current process using operational entitlement models
* Implement new technology projects
* Implement advanced performance tracking tools
- Interface with process engineering to:
* Initiate projects to improve the process
* Escalate technical issues which require advanced modelling
- Accounting and categorization of daily production losses
We need to keep the sub-bullets as nested lists.
Now Requirements:
- BS in Engineering preferably Chemical or Mechanical
- 0-3 years of chemical industry experience
- Process optimization background
- Experience troubleshooting in a plant environment
Qualifications:
- Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt) trained, certification preferred
Skills:
- ASPEN products, heat transfer, hydraulics, etc.
- Knowledge of Process Safety Management is essential
- Strong technical and analytical skills with the ability to innovate and solve complex problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to provide off-hours plant support is essential
- Ability to perform in a highly dynamic work environment
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and manage projects from beginning to successful completion
Now About Us/Why work at Ascend? We'll include as a paragraph under About the role maybe after position overview, or we could add a separate
About the company
but not in list. Safer to add as anotherAbout the company
but instruction says use those headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities... It didn't forbid others but said "usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)". It implies those are examples; we could still use other headings but better to stick to those
- we can have