Sr. Plant Engineer

Hunt Consolidated; Tuscaloosa (AL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the petroleum industry seeks an experienced engineer to manage projects and enhance equipment reliability. The ideal candidate will have extensive engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders. This role involves overseeing engineering tasks, managing teams, and ensuring adherence to industry standards.

Qualifications

• Seven to sixteen years of progressive engineering experience in relevant industries.
• Demonstrated knowledge of process industry construction codes and standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop scopes of work and cost estimates for projects.
• Provide Project Engineering and Management support for construction.
• Lead root cause analysis discussions.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

BS degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Caesar

Caepipe

Aspen

Job description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop thorough scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for new and/or revamped equipment and facilities by using company's project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).


• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.


• Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.


• Serve as a highly skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.


• Expected to make independent technical decisions based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.


• Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.


• Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.


• Provide equipment repair, replacement, and metallurgical recommendations.


• Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.


• Lead formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.


• Serve as a "go-to" technical resource for at least three areas or technologies to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.


• Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.


• Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.


• Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.


• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.


• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.


• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.


• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Exemplify the company core values: Respect, Humility, Community, Teamwork, & Creativity.


• Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.


• Develop relationships and influences effective business results.


• Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.


• Must be able to handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment.


• Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.


• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects.


• Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Ability to proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat.


• Ability to lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.


• Ability to pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.


• Exhibits attitude of servant leadership.


• Has high emotional intelligence and shows a willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.


• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to speak and read English fluently.


• Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.


• Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics.


• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.


• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.


• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.


• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations and permutations.


• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• BS degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering or equivalent.


• Seven to sixteen years of progressive engineering related experience in Maintenance and Project Engineering in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other industrial related settings.


• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in application of process industry construction codes, standards, and practices.


• Knowledge of factors that affect reliability and equipment integrity/degradation/failure.


• Proficient in the use of MS Project and/or Primavera P6 scheduling software preferred but not required.


• Proficient in the use of Caesar and/or Caepipe modeling software preferred but not required.


• Proficient in the use of Aspen and/or related operations trending software preferred but not required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Professional Engineer registration preferred but not required.


• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred but not required.