Plant Engineer

About the role

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed. Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical support to plant operations, troubleshooting equipment and process issues.
• Support the safety, reliability, and efficiency of production.
• Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering to execute improvement and capital projects.
• Support process safety initiatives, maintain technical documentation, and identify opportunities to improve equipment performance, plant availability, and overall operational effectiveness.
• Provide plant support related to process troubleshooting, new product introductions, process safety management systems, CAPEX, and OEE.
• Act as project manager or project responsible for plant-related projects, both large and small up to $500,000 value.
• Have full technical responsibility for the care and condition of plants in cooperation with operations.
• Assure the defined technical availability of the production plants according to the production requirements, and in conformance to changing requirements in respect to economics, safety, and care for the environment.
• Work with other departments including site engineering, external engineering contractors, and maintenance to plan and secure the resources necessary to execute process trials and projects.
• Use experienced engineering judgment, creativity, and foresight to initiate studies, projects, and new developments and to anticipate and solve unprecedented problems with a focus on long-term technical solutions.
• Provide plant-specific technical expertise in the areas of process engineering, equipment innovations, and state-of-the-art process and project techniques.
• Ensure regulatory compliance of technical installations, maintenance practices, and the technical documentation.

Requirements

• BS in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Familiarity with SAP, Emerson Delta-V, Aspin, PIMs, etc is a plus.
• Ability to maintain good communication, good relationships with colleagues, and manage priorities.
• Knowledgeable with codes and other Engineering standards is a plus.

Pay

Pay Range: $87,000-$98,000 annual salary.