The Senior Process Engineer lead fulfills all Processing Engineering responsibilities and in addition serves as a leader in larger capital project development / implementation, mentoring less-experienced engineers, leading incident investigations, and developing of best practices within the production and engineering processes.
DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES
Ø Direct and develop Unit Engineers.
Ø Work with Operations / Logistics and other Unit Process Engineers to troubleshoot more difficult operating issues that occur.
Ø Understand and assist Operation and other Unit Process Engineers to control unit specification on processes being monitored.
Ø Collects/Monitors production data and applies standard scientific and statistical methods to analyze, document, and optimize production processes by increasing throughput, improving yield and reducing cost.
Ø Understand and effectively use data collection / analysis program {PI / Trendminer}.
Ø Understand and effectively use Chemcad for distillation simulation, hydraulics, heat duty.
Ø Maintain Chemcad – Penhex model and assist other engineers to use for their units.
Ø Understand and effectively use the LP model for the Penhex Process.
Ø Understand and able to use other engineering tools: Heat transfer, Hydraulics, Control valve size, etc.
Ø Recommends changes or upgrades to equipment, work methods, or other aspects of the process to improve efficiency and utilization of resources including labor, energy and raw materials.
Ø Identifies process bottlenecks and devises solutions to resolve.
Ø Improves process reliability, production, and quality while maintaining and improving process safety.
Ø Generate opportunity list for the units being monitored.
Ø Work with Other Process Engineers to risk rank/prioritize project opportunities to feed the Capital project process.
Ø Conducts tests on equipment / processes and evaluate the tests results to determine if the processes / equipment efficiency has improved by either reducing risk, increasing production, or reducing costs.
Ø Develop, enhance, and assist in implementing plant operating procedures to standardize a given process, which will reduce risk, increase production, or reducing costs successfully.
Ø Leads or participates in incident investigations and advises on corrective actions for the processes being monitored.
Ø Lead/Coordinate Process driven problem investigations to develop a plan of action to correct the issue and prevent recurrence.
Ø Participate in Process Hazard Analysis studies (PHA’s) and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA’s).
Ø Supports / Leads capital projects (greater than 25,000 $) to ensure they are implemented safely, efficiently, on schedule, on budget and that they work as designed; includes working with outside engineering/construction firm(s).
Ø Preform other duties that may be assigned.
REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS
Ø Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering required.
Ø 10 years’ experience working in a petrochemical/oil refinery/chemical plant.
Ø Capital Project Execution (front end engineering, construction, startup and commissioning) experience.
Ø Strong distillation and hydrogenation skills - strong preference for refinery experience.
Ø Experienced using Chemcad, or similar, for distillation simulation, hydraulics, heat duty.
Ø Proven leadership skills and ability to influence at a local level and across a broad organization.
Ø Knowledge of industry standards and practices.
Ø Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships.
