Senior Process Engineer

Fortune Personnel of Houston, Inc.; Beaumont (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortune Personnel of Houston, Inc. represents a leading chemical company recruiting a Senior Process Engineer for a cutting-edge Texas plant.

The role provides process engineering expertise and project implementation management to support operations, technology, and business groups, ensuring safe, efficient plant performance. You will lead process optimization, run simulations, perform HAZOPs and PSSR, support toll manufacturing, and guide turnaround activities with strong business sense and

Qualifications

• BS Chemical Engineering required.
• 6+ years in the Chemical/Refining Industry.
• High level process management and control skills with strong interpersonal abilities.

Responsibilities

• Act as an internal and external technology expert supporting existing plants in questions of technology and optimization of operations.
• Lead the global variable cost reduction initiative focusing on process and energy optimization.
• Observe plant operations then develop, suggest and implement improvements via process simulations and optimization studies.
• Provide technical solutions and troubleshooting to solve reliability/processing problems and eliminate bottlenecks at production sites.
• Develop ideas from R&D and scale-up processes for commercial production with complete design packages for project management.
• Lead process safety efforts by conducting HAZOPs and performing PSSR for all sites (domestic and abroad).
• Support plant turnaround activities by filling roles on the management team and acting as project manager for larger capital items.
• Possess experience to substitute for operations engineers at each plant when needed.

Skills

Process engineering

Project management

Process simulations

Optimization

Troubleshooting

HAZOP

PSSR

Safety leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Plant operations knowledge

Education

BS Chemical Engineering

Job description

Our client, a leading chemical company, Has a Senior Process Engineer opening at their cutting edge plant in Texas. The Process Engineer will provide process engineering expertise and project implementation management in support of operations, technology and the business group ensuring that plant operations runs efficiently as possible in order to maximize profits while consistently achieving the highest of safety performance goals.

• Act as an internal and external technology expert supporting existing plants in questions of technology and optimization of operations.
• Lead the global variable cost reduction initiative which focuses on process and energy optimization. Continual variable cost improvement on a year to year basis is expected.
• Observe plant operations then develop, suggest and implement improvements. This entails completing process simulations and optimization studies then recommending and implementing modifications and process installations at the site level.
• Provide technical solutions and perform higher order troubleshooting to solve reliability / processing problems and eliminate bottlenecks at production sites where capacity is being tested.
• Develop ideas generated by the R&D technology department and scale-up the processes for commercial production. Completed process design packages with sizing and operability defined are the deliverables to be submitted to project management.
• Act as the process engineering lead for the development of toll manufacturing capacity. This includes evaluating several toll manufacturers and their equipment for fit versus our processing needs. Act as technical expert on-site at toll manufacturer during critical start-up of new campaigns and during routine campaigns when trouble is encountered.
• Act as internal process safety expert and champion process safety interests by leading process hazard studies (HAZOP) and performing pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR) for all sites domestic and abroad. This includes the requisite 5 year validations on HAZOPS and initial studies for all implemented projects.
• Support plant turn around activities by filling various roles on the management team and acting as project manager for larger capital scope items.
• Posses enough experience and a working knowledge of the operations engineers position for each plant as to act as a successful substitute when needed.

Level of education & Experience in general:

BS Chemical Engineering required

6+ years in the Chemical/Refining Industry, encompassing a broad set of technical experiences,

High level process management and control skills are required, along with good interpersonal skills to help define and affect necessary actions.

Should have a keen business acumen to help manage optimal performance of manufacturing processes, and create opportunities (or identify threats) for the business.