Job Description

Job Location: La Porte, TX 77571Position Title: Production Engineer
Reports to: Operations Manager
Job

Summary: Engineering / line support for the daily production of LaPorte site unit operations
Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for assigned production units in compliance with established health, safety, environmental, and quality policies, procedures, permits and regulatory requirements
- Technical review and evaluation of unit operations including data monitoring, analysis, and record keeping
- Develop / champion improvements that enhance/upgrade unit performance
- Process safety information maintenance including procedures, technical information, drawings, etc.
- Maintenance coordination and scheduling, including preventive maintenance compliance
- Participation in and support of project engineering, new installations, new product introductions
- Troubleshooting / problem solving for unit operations
- Participation in the proper training and direction of the workforce
- Emergency crew participation including fire brigade, hazmat response, and confined space entry rescue
Education and/or Experience
- A Technical bachelor’s degree is required.  Chemical Engineering is preferred.
- A minimum of 5 years’ chemical plant manufacturing experience is required with an emphasis on unit operation and leadership.
- Demonstrated project leadership experience, including start up and commissioning efforts for new processes/equipment and new product introduction is required
- In-depth understanding of chemical plant unit operations including reaction mechanisms, distillation operations, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mass transfer, kinetics, etc. is required.
- Direct experience with PSM/RMP covered processes is required, including participation in Process Hazard Analyses, Management of Change and Pre-Startup Safety Reviews.
- Demonstrated record of achieving cost efficiency is required
- Strong safety background in a hazardous chemical process environment is required.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal leadership skills
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities
- Strong data analysis skills
- Demonstrated history of critical thinking, problem solving, and action
- MS Office Suite applications
- Enterprise resource planning / computerized maintenance management system platforms (SAP, Oracle, Chempax, Maximo, etc.)
- Experience with reading prints, schematics, drawings and process information
Performance Measurements
- Safety Performance
- Quality Objectives
- Production Rates
- On-stream Time
- Raw Material Efficiencies
- Period Cost Control
- Inventory Control
- Operator Performance