Process Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot existing plant operations and implement new process improvement ideas to ensure that Westlake meets KPI's for Personnel Health/Safety, Environmental Protection, Raw Material Usage, Production, and Operating Costs.
• Monitor plant conformance to safety and environmental regulations.
• Perform process calculations as required to assist Safety and Environmental groups.
• Recommend process improvements and initiate new projects to meet new Safety/Environmental regulations and/or improve compliance with existing regulations.
• Monitor and analyze plant raw material and utility usages.
• Recommend appropriate plant operating conditions and process controls as required to optimize raw material and utility efficiencies.
• Monitor daily plant operating conditions. Report concise key operating information to production personnel.
• Monitor equipment uptimes and maintenance requirements for key process equipment.
• Conduct detailed process equipment inspections and recommend repairs.
• Monitor plant lab test results.
• Coincide plant process revisions, ensure that appropriate MOCs have been initiated, and assist with updating procedures and training.
• Incorporate process revisions into existing plant PFDs and P&IDs.
• Do detailed process material and energy balances on unit operations as required.
• Collect and evaluate process data for special plant studies and test projects.
• Summarize and report results.
• Develop new plant project scopes and evaluate project justification.
• Perform project raw material and energy balance calculations, develop project: PFDs, P&IDs, and process equipment specifications.
• Develop project operating procedures and assist production with training and startup.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering with at least 2 years' experience.
• Ability to use PC and various software applications essential to technical performance.
• Demonstrable written and verbal communications.
• Knowledge of chemical engineering unit operations and process control.

Pay

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Schedule

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Benefits

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