Plant Process Engineer — Commissioning, Startup & Ops Lead

Lofton Staffing Services

Baton Rouge (LA)

On-site

USD 95,000 - 130,000

Full time

3 days ago
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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.

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