HSRC Plant Engineer II

Hunt Refining Company; Sandersville (MS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunt Refining Company in Sandersville, MS, seeks an experienced mechanical/civil engineer to support refinery process equipment design, troubleshooting, revamp and new construction projects. You will provide on-demand technical guidance to operations, maintenance, and turnaround teams.

Responsibilities include developing specs, schedules, and cost estimates for small to mid-size projects, leading cross-functional teams, and applying fitness-for-service analyses to improve reliability and life

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• 3–6 years of experience in a refinery, chemical plant, or related industrial setting.
• Proficient with project scheduling and cost estimation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities in high-pressure environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-demand mechanical engineering support for operations and maintenance.
• Develop technical solutions considering cost, budget, and refinery performance.
• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages and analysis for equipment repair or replacement.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor students as needed.
• Apply fitness-for-service and life extension analyses to equipment.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Project management

Team leadership

Root cause analysis

Technical communication

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Plant engineering for the design, troubleshooting, revamp and/or new construction, maintenance and reliability of refinery process equipment and facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide on demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups.
• Serve as a skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
• Develop technical solutions independently based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
• Serve as a “go-to” technical resource for assigned area or technology to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
• Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
• Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.
• Develop detailed scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for small-medium scale projects (<$1MM) by using company’s project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).
• Provide equipment repair, replacement and metallurgical recommendations.
• Participate in formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.
• Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
• Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
• Assist in auditing of Maintenance and Operations practices to improve reliability and operability of refinery process equipment.
• Coordinate services of engineering and other consultants as required.
• Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
• Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
• Assist in identification, development and implementation of training programs as needed for others in the engineering, maintenance, and operations departments.
• Communicate with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities.
• Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.

Interpersonal Skills

• Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.
• Exemplify the company core values: Commitment to Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Teamwork, Creativity, Humility and Community-Centric.
• Develop relationships and influences effective business results.
• Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.
• Must be able to handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment.
• Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.
• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery, and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects.
• Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.

Leadership Skills

• Ability to proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat.
• Ability to lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
• Ability to pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.
• Exhibits attitude of servant leadership.
• Has high emotional intelligence and shows a willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

Language Skills

• Ability to speak and read English fluently.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.
• Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.

Education and Experience

• B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Three to six years in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other related industrial experience.
• Proficient in use of personal computers and office software applications.
• Knowledge in P6 or Microsoft Project is a plus.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Additional Information

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Leadership and motivational skills for peers.
• Self motivated with desire to learn and develop new skills.
• Exhibit a “can do” attitude and spirit of cooperation.
• Support management objectives.
• Subject to periodic “on-call” duty and non-scheduled call-in/overtime assignments.