Refining Process Engineer

Parpacific; Billings (MT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Educational reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

Par Pacific in Billings, MT, is seeking a Refining Process Engineer to join the team and provide technical support ensuring safe, reliable, and profitable operation of the refinery units. You will collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering to become a subject matter expert.

The role involves monitoring performance, managing process changes, incident investigations, HAZOPs, operating limits, and continuous improvement projects, including catalyst planning and equipment

Qualifications

• B.S. Chemical Engineering is required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience; higher for a more senior level.
• Willingness to provide off-hours support for abnormal and non-routine operation.
• Ability to physically enter process vessels for internal inspections during maintenance.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to influence others.
• Effective analytical problem solving and adaptability under time pressures.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily and long-term performance in your area and identify deviations from refinery strategy.
• Support unit performance, run plan target compliance, and address deviations.
• Initiate process engineering change management.
• Participate in incident investigations, risk screenings, and HAZOPs plus safety relief reviews.
• Support operating limits/envelopes and target setting; ensure deviations are understood.
• Assist in outages and troubleshooting with problem analysis and IRT involvement.
• Develop technical work plans and track turnaround milestones.
• Lead margin, reliability, and safety improvement projects.
• Support catalyst selection/planning and vessel verification practices.
• Translate focus areas into resource-balanced activities for the technical function.

Skills

Analytical problem solving

Strong communication skills

Process engineering knowledge

Ability to work under time pressure

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering

Job description

Refining Process Engineer

The Opportunity

• Refining Process Engineer at a growth-oriented downstream energy company
• Rapidly integrate into the organization through collaboration with operations, maintenance, engineering, and technical functions.
• Develop into a technical subject matter expert with opportunity to influence the success of the larger refinery team.
• Reporting to the Process Engineering Supervisor, you will be responsible for providing technical support to ensure safe, reliable, and profitable operation of the assigned units within your Business Team.

Key activities include:

• Responsible for daily and long term monitoring in your area; Identify operational deviations from short and long range refinery strategy (i.e. catalyst activity degradation, increasing pressure drop, product yield shifts and equipment performance concerns etc.)
• Support for unit operational performance and run plan target compliance, ensuring deviations are addressed. (i.e. Unit signals/constraints, Key Margin Variables, Key Energy Variables)
• Responsible for initiating process engineering change management
• Participate in incident investigations and follow-up, risk screening and assessments, equipment strategy development, HAZOPs, and safety relief review studies.
• Support implementation and sustainment of unit Operating Limits/Envelopes and targets, ensuring that all deviations are understood and addressed
• Support for unit planned or unplanned outages, structured troubleshooting efforts and abnormal operations with the review of problem consequence analysis (PCA) and incident response team (IRT) membership
• Responsible for development of technical work plans and compliance to turnaround process technical functional milestones for planned maintenance events
• Scoping and development of margin, reliability and safety improvement projects
• Support for catalyst selection, catalyst change out planning, and vessel verification practices/quality standards
• Participate in development of tactical plans to translate key focus areas (KFA) and business plan objectives into resource balanced activities for the technical function

Qualifications

To meet the basic qualifications for employment, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.

Qualifications for this role:

• B.S. Chemical Engineering required
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required; candidates with greater qualifications will be considered for higher level position
• Willingness to provide off-hours support of abnormal and non-routine operation required
• Ability to physically enter process vessels (towers, drums, reactors) for internal process inspections during equipment maintenance required
• Strong oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence others required
• Effective analytical problem solving capabilities and ability to adapt to changing time pressures required

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance, a robust allotment of paid time off, a 401(k) with company match, retirement savings plans, educational reimbursement, and more. Full-time employees (and their families) are offered medical (with prescription coverage), dental, vision, voluntary critical illness, accident, life/AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending Account and Employee Assistance Program. Employees can purchase company stock at discounted prices through the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Par Pacific prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable law.