Renewable Diesel Process Engineer

pbfenergy; Chalmette (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PBF Energy’s Chalmette Refinery in Louisiana seeks a Renewable Diesel Process Engineer to provide technical support to Pretreatment and Renewable Diesel Units, focusing on process monitoring, troubleshooting and asset improvement. You will collaborate with Operations and Engineering teams to optimize unit performance and reliability.

Requirements include a BS in Engineering and a minimum of 2 years in oil refining or petrochemicals, with a safety-first mindset and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• B.S. Degree in Engineering required; Chemical engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience. Oil refinery or petrochemical complex engineering experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Follow and promote the site's Loss Prevention System and ensure all activities are safety and loss prevention focused.
• Perform daily unit monitoring and troubleshooting to analyze and optimize process unit operating performance.
• Issue technical guidance to operations to achieve unit operation targets.
• Understand key operating limits and unit constraints.
• Drive operating limits, efficiency, and raw material/capacity utilization improvements.
• Identify opportunities/projects to improve unit operation.
• Develop and support test runs and data collection and analysis.
• Respond to plant operational events and support planned and unplanned unit outages/turnarounds, including day/night shift during these events and confined space entry
• Generate regularly scheduled unit health summary and environmental reports.
• Monitors chemical and catalyst usage and performance. Participates in catalysts and chemicals selection.
• Monitor and manage consumables inventories for the Pretreatment and Renewable Diesel Units.
• Support Process Safety Management programs, including Management of Change and Incident Investigations
• Drive site asset improvement in the areas of safety, reliability, environmental performance and process unit capability and efficiency in a team setting.
• Communicates and interacts regularly with Operations, Technical, Economics and Planning, and Maintenance business team members.
• Conduct unit field visits as needed to assist in data collection for unit troubleshooting and project development, includes climbing ladders and stairs and occasionally working from heights with the use of a harness
• Mentor interns and less experienced engineers

Skills

Process engineering

Oil/refinery experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

PBF Energy’s Chalmette Refinery in Louisiana seeks a Renewable Diesel Process Engineer to provide technical support to Pretreatment and Renewable Diesel Units, focusing on process monitoring, troubleshooting and asset improvement. You will collaborate with Operations and Engineering teams to optimize unit performance and reliability.

Requirements include a BS in Engineering and a minimum of 2 years in oil refining or petrochemicals, with a safety-first mindset and strong problem-solving skills.