Company:

INEOS Oxide

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees share in the ownership of the business and are empowered to make a difference?

Organizational context
and job purpose

INEOS Organization:

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 15 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 65 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries throughout the world. INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Its businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, and medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

BUSINESS CONTEXT:

The INEOS manufacturing complex consists of three world-class manufacturing plants; ethanolamines, polyglycol and glycol ethers. Collectively, all three plants produce over 500 million pounds per year with sales revenue in excess of $250 million per year. Two of these plants, the polyglycol and glycol ethers plant, are contract manufactured for The Dow Chemical Company.

A staff of sixty INEOS employees and forty contractors operates the manufacturing plants continuously. With the exception of supplying raw materials, utilities and some technical support, all activities are handled by the staff at the Plaquemine plant. These activities include reaction, distillation/finishing, process control, packaging, loading, quality control/quality assurance, maintenance, safety, environmental, and supply chain activities.

Purpose of the Job:

This position is primarily supporting the analytical requirements of all block assets, although work permitting, may assist other quality staff members or lab operators in other tasks. The priority is to ensure all finished products, raw materials, and wastes meet all specifications and to perform assigned L9 responsibilities to ensure good housekeeping and identification of equipment concerns, which is accomplished by: performing analytical measurements, reviewing results generated by operations, keeping laboratory stocked, good housekeeping performed, and reagents managed to ensure expired chemicals are removed and unavailable for use, and notifying the lab supervisor when additional chemicals and supplies are needed.

Responsibilities AND Accountabilities

Accountability 1: All Laboratory Technicians

SHE

Most important activity

This position – and all positions – with the INEOS Oxide US organization requires that the incumbent commit to learning, following, and practicing INEOS 20 Principles of Process & Behavioral Safety as applicable to the position. These Principles are posted throughout each Oxide facility and each employee must also commit to following INEOS’ Life-Saving rules on a daily basis. These are also posted within each Oxide facility
Routinely collect, report, and address SHE near misses
Ensure all required regulatory and job specific training is completed in a timely manner
Maintain laboratory environment by ensuring proper housekeeping in lab area including retain storage building

Accountability:

Initial Training 5.0 (3 months expected)

Most important activities

Safety Training with Safety Department
Module 1 training
Plant orientation and introductions
Handling of lab generated waste including Dak Paks and 90-day storage
Module 2 training
Module 4 training
Module 5 training (excluding ICP-MS)
7 day check testing and requirements
Communicate instrument issues to Equipment Specialist and lab Supervisor
On-call rotation with support from lab staff
Second level review of lots
Module 8 training (excluding nitrite/nitrate)
Module 9 training (maintenance forms, and titration sections, volumetric flasks, solutions book entry, instrument control practical demonstration, weekly carbonyl checks)
Module 10 training (DOW LIMS backup, Excel calculators, logging samples into LIMS, intro to labware, intro to efficient lotting process, lab schedule, peg positive ID, low Aldehydes procedures, DEG from Glycol 2)
Module 11 training (marine procedures for EOA and GE, lab management for rerun analysis requests)
Complete practical demonstration of efficient lotting

Accountability:

Grade 5.05: Laboratory Technician I