Plant Engineer

Air Liquide USA LLC; Freeport (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Liquide USA LLC in Freeport, TX is seeking a Plant Engineer to provide technical and process support to production units, assist in start-up and optimization, and drive planning and control techniques.

You will analyze plant processes, propose improvements, manage local projects, ensure change management and documentation, and promote safety and quality in a challenging energy and gas production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering required (Mechanical or Chemical).
• 1–5 years of engineering experience, preferably in an industrial plant setting.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical and process support to production units and assists in plant start-up and optimization.
• Implements planning and control techniques and revises procedures as needed.
• Optimizes plant processes and systems to improve safety, reliability and efficiency.
• Plans and manages local plant projects from planning to commissioning, ensuring proper change management and documentation.

Skills

Plant engineering

Process optimization

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical or Chemical)

Job description

R10100555 Plant Engineer (Open)

Location

Freeport, TX - Victoria St (HYCO) - HYCO

Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries. Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

• Provides technical and process support to production units: Solves operating problems. Assists in plant start-up and optimization. Implements planning and control techniques. Helps identify production problems, develop specifications for production procedures and revise existing procedures. Informs employees of company procedures and policies.
• Optimizes and innovates plant processes and systems: Anticipates production needs and identifies, recommends and implements changes in plant processes, equipment and systems to improve plant safety, reliability and efficiency. Analyzes new equipment. Optimizes resources to be used. Improves and develops individual contributions and new working methods.
• Monitors activity: evaluates industrial performance. Proposes objectives based on production priorities and direction. Ensures the success of the project and the sustainability of the results obtained. Evaluates and improves performance in the following areas: safety, environment, production quality, profitability, equipment reliability, production capacity and process improvement.
• Plans and manages plant projects: Responsible for local plant projects and acts as facilitator for major projects managed by the project team. Follows up projects from planning to commissioning, using project management processes. Ensure that change management processes (MOC) and documentation control are properly executed.
• Process improvement: Works in cooperation with his/her team and cross-functional teams to continuously improve work processes. Analyzes the operation of the business, identifies the causes of malfunctions and proposes appropriate corrective measures.
• Quality / Safety: Contributes to the definition and implementation of recommendations and procedures. Teaches others about risk management. Carries out audits and preventive actions to improve safety/quality. Identifies potentially risky situations and implements the necessary corrective actions. Ensures regulatory requirements and deadlines are met. Includes prevention of future risks at the design stage. Ensures plant site safety and quality.

Are you a MATCH?

• This position requires a Bachelor of Engineering degree (preferably in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering).
• 1-5 years of engineering experience (preferably in an industrial plant setting).

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.