Overview

The Process Engineer role supports the manufacture of anhydrous ammonia, nitric acid, and ammonium nitrate solution. The position provides technical expertise for continuing the development and implementation of process improvements to ensure employee safety, provide environmental security and maximize the facility's availability, product quality and cost effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Provide daily technical support to the Operations, Technical, and Maintenance teams to resolve process upset conditions, equipment issues, and operating issues for immediate and long-term solutions.
• Monitor process conditions for abnormalities in process parameters or deviations from normal operating instruction.
• Lead root cause failure investigations for process operating incidents.
• Review engineering projects to ensure compliance with plant standards and other applicable industry standards.
• Assist in developing and maintaining plant procedure training material, operating procedures, safe operating condition and limits (SOCL) and safety standards.
• Complete engineering design and documentation for plant improvement and modification projects.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 18 years of age
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering or similar required.
• Engineering experience, preferably in a chemical manufacturing environment.
• Experience with anhydrous ammonia and nitric acid preferred.
• This is a safety sensitive position which requires employees to disclose the use of any prescription medication that may affect his or her ability to safely perform the essential functions of this position.

Skills and Knowledge

• Comprehension of general chemical engineering to include but not limited to the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes, heat and mass balance, fluid dynamics, lab analytics, and other engineering fundamentals.
• Understanding of process control and safety system design of distributed control systems. Ability to support control logic and system modifications.
• Capable of troubleshooting process system issues.
• Competent computer knowledge - basic information technologies (routers, switches, firewalls, servers), CMMS, database management, analysis software.
• Understanding of the implementation and management of statistical process control is a plus.

Work Environment

US Nitrogen, LLC operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Austin Powder is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Austin Powder also participates in E-Verify.