Plant Engineer

Evonik; Etowah (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Evonik is seeking a Process Engineer for the Etowah site in Tennessee. You will drive process improvements, ensure safety compliance, and collaborate with operations and maintenance to boost plant reliability.

The role requires a BS in Engineering, 5+ years of experience, and knowledge of control systems, Lean tools, and SAP/Excel. Join a team focused on safe, efficient operations and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Requires a BS in Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years of relevant chemical industry experience preferred.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts such as 5S, Kaizens, TPM, etc.
• Understanding of process control systems and instrumentation.
• Ability to plan, communicate, and document project requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure EH&S policies and procedures are followed and documented.
• Provide technical assistance to increase plant availability and reduce costs; develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks.
• Monitor, track and report critical success factors as required.
• Work with operations and maintenance to ensure successful project outcomes with common spares and training.
• Maximize process performance by understanding workflows and exploring new technologies.
• Create work orders for non-emergency equipment needs to improve safety, quality and reliability.
• Support audits and participate in improvement tools such as 5S, KPIs and root cause analysis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

DCS/PLC concepts

Instrumentation controls

Lean manufacturing

Financial concepts

Communication

Project planning

Education

BS in Chemical Engineering

BS in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SAP

Excel

Word

Job description

What We Offer

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.

What We Offer

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.

Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!

Find out more about the many benefits we offer:

https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html

Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik:

https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html

Responsibilities

• Ensure EH&S policies and procedures, as they related to assignments, are followed and documented. This includes strict adherence to management of change, risk assessments, contractor management and permission to perform work on site.
• Provide technical assistance to the site (e.g. increase of a plant’s availability, reduction of investment and production costs, debottlenecking, quality improvement, etc.) Develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks or eliminate obstacles to improvements.
• Monitor, track and report critical success factors as required to satisfy goals or assignments and management requests.
• Regarding projects involving plant assets, work with operations and maintenance to ensure optimal project success with commonality of spares, use of similar equipment (as applicable), and ensure training is performed for new equipment installation.
• Interface with internal and external resources to ensure specified goals are met and reported for assigned tasks.
• Develop an understanding of the existing processes and workflows and strive to maximize the performance of the streams. Be willing to investigate other existing or emerging technologies to enhance or replace existing systems.
• Create WO (Work Orders) for equipment needs that are not Emergencies and can be scheduled. Focus of these WO should be to improve the safety, quality, and reliability of the process.
• Support and participate in audits and engage in improvement tools (EPS) activities such as 5S, KPIs, Root Cause analysis, etc
• Other activities as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum BS in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Chemical Industry preferred
• Environmental, Health and Safety Impacts of Position: This position plays a key role in ensuring our compliance with environmental and environmental permit requirements. It has the potential to have significant environmental impact. It will play a key role in carrying out tasks specific to environmental compliance, may have an impact on the basis of safety of an operation classed as high risk within the facility. It is imperative that you comply with all training requirements outlined for this position as designated in the Etowah Site EHS Training Plan Matrix.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, plan, organize and document project requirements.
• Proven track record of success participating in or managing continuous improvement endeavors
• Knowledge of plant processing and equipment, familiar with multi engineering disciplines. Excel, Word, and SAP a plus.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts such as 5S, Kaizens, TPM, etc. a plus.
• Understanding of integration of instrument and process control systems and their potential impacts on processes
• Knowledge of optimization techniques
• Able to identify opportunities for supply improvements, reliability, optimization and throughput
• Must understand basic financial concepts as relevant to project development Must be able to integrate work with technology team Fundamental knowledge of distributed control systems (DCS), PLCs, and general instrumentation controls as well as sequencing of processes.

The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.