Plant Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ensure EH&S policies and procedures are followed and documented.
• Provide technical assistance to the site (e.g., increase of a plant’s availability, reduction of investment and production costs, debottlenecking, quality improvement, etc.).
• Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks or eliminate obstacles to improvements.
• Monitor, track, and report critical success factors as required to satisfy goals or assignments and management requests.
• Interface with internal and external resources to ensure specified goals are met and reported for assigned tasks.
• Create WO (Work Orders) for equipment needs that are not emergencies and can be scheduled, focusing on improving safety, quality, and reliability of the process.
• Support and participate in audits and engage in improvement tools (such as 5S, KPIs, Root Cause analysis, etc.).

Requirements

• Minimum BS in Chemical Engineering or other Engineering degree.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Chemical Industry preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, plan, organize, and document project requirements.
• Proven track record of success participating in or managing continuous improvement endeavors.
• Knowledge of plant processing and equipment, familiar with multi engineering disciplines.
• Excel, Word, and SAP a plus.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts such as 5S, Kaizens, TPM, etc.
• Understanding of integration of instrument and process control systems and their potential impacts on processes.
• Knowledge of optimization techniques.
• Able to identify opportunities for supply improvements, reliability, optimization, and throughput.
• Must understand basic financial concepts as relevant to project development.
• Able to integrate work with technology team.
• Fundamental knowledge of distributed control systems (DCS), PLCs, and general instrumentation controls as well as sequencing of processes.