Plant Process Engineer — Commissioning, Startup & Ops Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

CONFIDENTIAL SEARCH is seeking a Plant Process Engineer (Process & Operations) to design, commission, startup, and operate a major heavy-industrial facility in Ascension Parish. You will own operating procedures, parameters, and performance from design through steady-state operation.

You will build training materials, lead root-cause analyses, and drive safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements as part of a technical leadership team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering as listed above.
• 6+ years of process engineering experience in heavy-industrial or continuous-process environments.
• Working knowledge of P&IDs, equipment drawings, process control narratives, and risk assessments.
• Ability to manage priorities, analyze information, document work clearly, and collaborate across teams.
• Proficiency with job-relevant technical systems and tools.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Process engineering

P&IDs

Equipment drawings

Process control narratives

Risk assessments

Prioritization & collaboration

Microsoft 365

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Metallurgical, Materials, Electrical, Chemical or related engineering

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

CONFIDENTIAL SEARCH is seeking a Plant Process Engineer (Process & Operations) to design, commission, startup, and operate a major heavy-industrial facility in Ascension Parish. You will own operating procedures, parameters, and performance from design through steady-state operation.

You will build training materials, lead root-cause analyses, and drive safety, quality, throughput, and cost improvements as part of a technical leadership team.