Plant Process Engineer - Commissioning & Startup Leader

Lofton.Jobs; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential search for a Plant Process Engineer to lead design reviews through commissioning for a major Ascension Parish facility. You will own operating procedures, parameters, and performance, advancing safe, reliable operation.

Responsibilities include establishing manuals, developing run plans, and guiding root-cause analysis. Requires 6+ years in process engineering and strong collaboration across teams, with MS 365 proficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• 6+ years of process engineering experience in heavy-industrial environments.
• Experience with P&IDs, equipment drawings, and risk assessments.
• Ability to lead root-cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Establish operating manuals, operating parameters, and technical standards for assigned processes and systems.
• Develop cold-run, hot-run, performance-acceptance, and operating plans, and support commissioning, startup, and production ramp-up.
• Review process and equipment design packages, specifications, calculations, drawings, and vendor documentation for technical completeness and operability.
• Develop operating, maintenance, inspection, startup, shutdown, and emergency procedures for your assigned facility.
• Define equipment acceptance criteria, spare-parts needs, maintenance strategies, and technical standards.
• Investigate process and equipment failures, lead root-cause analysis, and implement lasting corrective actions.
• Build technical training materials and qualify engineers, operators, and technicians.
• Track safety, quality, throughput, yield, reliability, cost, and schedule performance and lead improvement efforts.

Skills

Process engineering

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Microsoft 365

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Process simulation software

Job description

Confidential search for a Plant Process Engineer to lead design reviews through commissioning for a major Ascension Parish facility. You will own operating procedures, parameters, and performance, advancing safe, reliable operation.

Responsibilities include establishing manuals, developing run plans, and guiding root-cause analysis. Requires 6+ years in process engineering and strong collaboration across teams, with MS 365 proficiency.