Engineer, Operations (Houston Ship Channel)

Enterprise Products Partners L.P; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is seeking an Operations Engineer for the Houston Ship Channel to support day-to-day operations, troubleshoot processes, and drive improvements.

You will monitor KPIs and DCS trends, participate in improvement projects, and help implement new terminal processes and equipment upgrades. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering and at least 3 years in a chemical plant environment with strong communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering (or Mechanical).
• 3+ years in a chemical plant or related environment.
• 3+ years of production, process, or mechanical troubleshooting and optimization experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Experience with reliability improvement techniques (predictive/Preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, risk-based inspection).
• Knowledge of DCS/advanced process control systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Organize, lead, and participate in improvement initiatives, projects, and process optimization teams to deliver specific, time-bound objectives.
• Monitor operations daily/weekly; review KPIs, logs, DCS trends, quality results to ensure reliable operations.
• Intervene to identify and resolve operating issues.
• Design and implement new Neches River Terminal processes/equipment upgrades.
• Manage capital project assignments to support terminal improvements.
• Maintain calculation basis for unit permits and prepare emission calculations.
• Provide production and process optimization, troubleshooting, data analysis, and technical support.
• Develop process standards, SOPs, diagrams, training materials, and job aids for site operations.
• Implement reliability improvement techniques such as predictive and preventive maintenance, RCA, RBI.

Skills

Process optimization

Troubleshooting

Data analysis

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

HYSYS

Job description

Engineer, Operations (Houston Ship Channel) (000GWS)

Job Description

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

Description

The Operations Engineer will support day-to-day operations with responsibilities including troubleshooting, process optimization and improvement, and improving product quality. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Organize, lead, and participate in improvement initiatives, projects, and process optimization teams to deliver specific, focused, time bound improvement objectives.
• Monitor operations on a daily/weekly basis, reviewing KPI's, operating logs, Distributed Control System (DCS) trends, quality results, and other sources of data to ensure reliable, consistent, and cost-effective operations.
• Intervene where appropriate to identify and resolve operating issues.
• Design and implementation of new Neches River Terminal processes and/or equipment upgrades.
• Manage capital project assignments as necessary to support Neches River Terminal improvements.
• Maintain the calculation basis for unit's permits and prepare emission event calculations.
• Provide production and process optimization, troubleshooting, data analysis, and technical support to the operations organization.
• Develop process standards, operating procedures, diagrams, training materials, and job aids as required to properly document, teach, and manage site operations.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain reliability improvement techniques such as predictive and preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, and risk based inspection.
• Track variable costs and look for ways to reduce those costs via process optimization.
• Ensure compliance with all steps of OSHA 1910.119 / Process Safety Management and DOT regulations.
• Satisfactorily perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering is required..
• A minimum of(3) years of experience in a chemical plant environment, or related industry is required.
• A minimum of (3) years of experience with production, process, or mechanical troubleshooting and optimization activities is preferred.
• Proficiency in basic Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) is required.
• Working knowledge of reliability improvement techniques such as predictive and preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, risk-based inspections, and total productive maintenance is preferred.
• Experience with Process Modeling software, such as Hysys, is preferred.
• Must show strong initiative, be self-motivated, work with minimal supervision. Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and in writing, and be detailed oriented with the ability to handle fast-paced projects with constantly changing priorities and scope.
• Must be proficient in balancing multiple priorities and activities and be able to meet deadlines in a timely and accurate manner.
• Must demonstrate a proven track record of working in a team environment, possess a strong technical/problem solving aptitude and be data driven.
• Ability to solve complex problems by identifying and enrolling appropriate resources is required.
• Ability to quickly absorb the key deliverables and not get mired in detail is required.
• Knowledge of DCS and advanced process control systems is preferred.

1100 Louisiana Street, 10th Floor Houston, TX 77002-5227