Description
- Monitoring of compliance with Environmental permits, ensuring reliable operation and on-spec product, search for problems that could prevent the ability to maintain capacity, and review production results and operator logs.
- Troubleshooting- Identifying and correcting potential problems
- Engineering calculations- Calculate pressure drops, size piping for small projects, perform heat/material balances, size/rate heat exchangers, calculate fluid properties, determine system volumes/residence times
- Mass/volume balance- Update spreadsheet for material balances and provide recommendations to correct mass/volume balance discrepancies.
- Investigate production and quality variances, focusing on improvement of plant performance
- Identify and lead reliability and capacity improvements
- Make recommendations to Operations on: following safe work practices while maintaining quality, complying with environmental permits, ensuring reliable operation, making on-spec product, maintaining capacity, and increasing profitability.
- Support turnaround/maintenance activities such as: Chemical cleaning supervision, vessel inspection, shutdown/startup coverage, including revision/development of operating procedures, sample procurement, and recommendations for maintenance (exchanger cleaning, screen cleaning, etc.)
- Provide operations training for supervisors, technicians, and newly hired employees as required
- Support environmental department with emissions calculations and permit renewal
- Supply data to customers as required
- Review Pi data, draw conclusions, make recommendations, and assemble reports
- Assist groups with capital project design and installation
- Understand, support, and comply, with plant safety policies and procedures, including the use of loss control software
- Candidate will have the following risk assessment responsibilities:
- Initiate MOCs as required
- Participate in Process Hazards Analysis, PSSR, HAZOP, LOPA (as requested)
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering or equivalent, preferred
- 2+ years experience in petrochemicals or refining, preferred
- Chemical Engineering knowledge: Heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid operations, heat/material balances, chemistry, physics
- Computer knowledge: Use of spreadsheets (i.e. Excel), DCS control data historians (i.e. PI Process book), and be able to understand new systems as required by job function (i.e. SAP)
- Basic chemical engineering fundamentals
- Good problem solving skills
- Able to climb ladders to access on/into towers, vessels, and other equipment
- Travel to other Resin Solutions sites may be required
- Work nights during turnarounds or other special circumstances where 24-hour technical coverage is needed.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills required for interaction with all personnel/departments in the facilities and with vendors.
This position is hybrid, and the selected candidate will be required to work on-site three days per week at our Houston, TX location.
Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Resin Solutions LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.