Production Reliability Engineer - Calca Solutions

Responsibilities

• Track operating performance and product quality of production units.
• Identify causes of departure from standard and initiate corrective actions.
• Troubleshoot existing processes and initiate corrective actions to improve operating efficiency.
• Identify and implement improvements to processes and procedures that will increase capacity, reduce production cost, improve safety and quality of chemical manufacturing processes.
• Provide technical coverage for plant trials and startups.
• Write operating procedures and provide training for chemical operators.
• Propose changes in programming logic that will lead to improved process safety, quality, or production efficiency.
• Develop in-depth expertise on process equipment used at the plants such as reactors, agitators, heat exchangers, pumps, and filters.
• Lead or be a member of PPA (potential problem analysis), JSA (job safety analysis) and PHAs (process hazard analysis) teams.
• Serves maintenance crafts, operations and projects by assisting with mechanical engineering support.
• Develop PFDs, P&IDs, mass and energy balances for modified processes.
• Develop project scopes for small capital projects.
• Lead capital projects through the full project lifecycle, from project design to commissioning and startup.
• Specify new process equipment including updating/revising equipment specification sheets.
• Work with equipment vendors and operations to aide in selection.
• Leads mechanical predictive maintenance program.
• Direct and coordinate manufacturing, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities to ensure compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
• Perform data and statistical analysis to make sound processing decisions.
• Provide relief coverage for supervision in production units.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
• 5 – 7 years of chemical plant experience
• Experience with mechanical equipment design, troubleshooting, function, and reliability