Senior Chemical Process Engineer

Title: Senior Chemical Process Engineer

Location: Baytown TX (OnSite)

Type: Contract

What role you will play in our team

We are seeking Senior Chemical Process Engineers to join us in various roles within our gulf coast manufacturing locations specifically in Baytown Area TX.

Our Senior Chemical Process Engineers play a pivotal role in the successful operation of our plants and are responsible for initiating and leading improvements to unit performance in safety production and reliability in a dynamic team environment. You will think strategically execute thoughtfully and collaborate across many teams levels and situations. In this role you will serve as a senior process technical resource providing technical and operational expertise to address complex processes across business teams.

What you will do

Serve as the technical leader on the business team by:

• Mentoring less experienced engineers on design practices unit health monitoring and troubleshooting
• Provide offhours support of abnormal and nonroutine operations including unit Turnarounds.
• Aiding in the development of longterm vision and strategy for product line improvements
• Organizing and designing plant testing and product trials
• Serve as a senior resource either serving as or working with supervisors on the team to set clear objectives and ensure priorities are aligned for the technical team.
• Influence others and drive toward solutions without direct authority.
• Work in a team environment with other engineering disciplines operations and mechanical personnel and interface with corporate technology support.
• Ability to interface with 3rd party vendors (cost optimizations as well as developing/driving solutions)
• Serve as process safety resource on business team leading Hazard and Operability Reviews (HAZOPs) and Risk Assessments by developing closure plans and strategies for identified risks.
• Lead/support incident investigations as technical lead.
• Provide support for developing and implementing various capital projects to drive margin or mitigate SHE risk.
• Provide assistance in the field during plant startups shutdowns or upsets.
• Demonstrating courage of conviction to drive healthy tension for both business team and corporate technology support to promote fit for purpose outcome.

Skills and Qualifications

• B.S. Chemical Engineering
• 10 years of experience in Chemical Engineering plant with technical fuels/ chemicals manufacturing roles.

Qualifications/ Experience

• Process design experience.
• Familiarity with advanced control strategies/optimization software.
• Working knowledge of RBI practices (corrosion damage mechanisms/mitigations saltation etc)
• Risk assessment and HAZOP experience.
• Understanding of safety relief limits (modelling and evaluations)
• Demonstrated understanding of modelling software (PROII ASPEN etc)
• Kinetic Modelling (SOL KBC Profimatics etc)