Staff Process Engineer

About the Role

The process engineer uses understanding of process fundamentals, process equipment, refinery practices, and specific technologies to ensure safe, environmentally friendly, reliable, and optimal refinery operation while coordinating and influencing the achievement of these objectives utilizing data-driven critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the refinery network, provides input into process engineering monthly report format template and may review monthly monitoring reports and provide feedback.
• Conducts monthly touch-base discussions for each technology-specific process unit in the functional area and provides notes and receives feedback from the Principal Process Engineer as needed to gain further insights.
• Significantly contributes to complex process technology troubleshooting, economic improvement, reliability, and safety incidents within the specific technology assigned.
• Determines design improvements and collaborates with site teams to implement with oversight from the Principal Process Engineer.
• Develops industry-leading engineering judgment for process and equipment design in the technology area with mentoring from the Principal Process Engineer and through attending industry conferences.
• Maintains and suggests improvements for the company process guide and best practices while implementing existing practices as practical; employs materials to and may deliver internal company training, including operator process training classes.
• Provides technical quality assurance on medium and smaller capital projects associated with technology expertise.
• Interfaces with the corporate LP modeling group to ensure unit constraints and yields are accurately reflected in the corporate group’s linear programming model; developing tools as necessary for LP yield vector shifts maintenance.
• Develops and maintains critical cross-functional relationships (i.e., refinery economics, operations, lab, maintenance, refinery leadership, etc.) to optimize unit performance to constraints.
• Mentors and trains Engineers/Specialists.

Qualifications

• 4-year / Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Ten (10) or more years of Process engineering experience or equivalent ability in the refining industry (Required)
• No Licensure or Certification Required.

Skills

• Process Engineering
• Fixed Equipment Operation
• Metallurgy
• Refining Processes Operation
• Unit Management
• Refinery Economics
• Personal Safety
• Process Safety
• Project/Turnaround Management
• Relationship Management
• Communication
• Influencing
• Critical Thinking
• Mentoring

Benefits

• Up to a 10% match on 401K on your hire start, with a vesting timeline of only one year.
• Medical benefits that start on day one with a 30% premium rebate annually.
• Access to the Calm app for FREE, used for meditation, stress management, and better sleep.
• Performance management program with additional annual incentives as you set and achieve goals.
• Pay for performance culture with some of the highest bonus payouts in recent years.

About Delek US Holdings

We are a boutique-sized diversified downstream energy company with a range of assets, including petroleum refining and logistics. Our refineries in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana have a combined crude capacity of 302,000 barrels per day. Our logistics business currently owns and operates 720 miles of crude and product pipelines, a 600-mile crude oil gathering system, and storage tanks and terminals.