Machinery Engineer

Company:

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:

Ethylene oxide (EO) is an important building block for the preparation of a wide variety of EO derivatives (EODs), including various surfactants, as well as a host of other chemical intermediates including Glycol Ethers, Polyethlene Glycols, Ethanolamines, and Alkyl Alkanolamines. 

INEOS Oxide is one of the world’s leading producers of Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EODs).  We currently have a total EO and EOD capacity of 920 kta spread across five different production units throughout Europe and the US. These units have leading cost economics, due to economies of scale, state-of-the-art technology, strategic locations, etc. Our EO project in the US is targeting the fast-growing merchant EO market, building on our experience and leadership position in Europe.

Purpose of the Job:

Most Important Internal Factors

• The Machinery Engineer will monitor, troubleshoot, and improve rotating equipment to optimize mean time between failure, ensuring the operational needs of the plant are met, while complying with the changing environmental initiatives.  Additionally, they will work on capital replacement projects to address obsolescence.  During a typical day they will work with the Specialist, Millwrights and Maintenance Supervisor.

Most Important External Factors

• The candidate is responsible for safe and efficient operation of rotating equipment using established operating discipline, procedural compliance and engineering standards.  This engineer is responsible for maintaining these assets and their protective systems to meet the production targets set by the business. 

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Accountability 1: 

SHE

• Support INEOS’s 20 Principles of Safety
• Adhere to and uphold all safety policies and standards
• Maintain safe and efficient operation of the rotating equipment using established operating disciplines and procedures.  Ensure that safety and environmental compliance is achieved.
• Support PSM and Environmental efforts including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change process, Risk Assessments and incident investigations.
• Maintain plant assets and protective systems integrity.
• Assist in defining and maintaining the correct operating envelopes.  Investigate when deviations occur and propose solution to mitigate.
• Participate in the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training materials.
• Initiate Management of Change process and participate in Risk Assessments and incident investigations.
• Complete all assigned training and action items from PHAs, incidents, audits, etc. in a timely manner

Accountability 2: 

Manufacturing Excellence

• Support established production targets by ensuring reliable equipment availability.
• Focus on resolving long term reliability issues
• Lead efforts to identify and execute scope during Turn Around activities.
• Troubleshoot equipment problems with Production Specialists, Maintenance, Reliability and Operations teams.
• Facilitate and implement root cause analysis
• Benchmark, identify and implement best in class improvements and practices to improve the operation and efficiency of the equipment.
• Track equipment mean time between failures/ repairs and identify opportunities to optimize while minimizing cost and waste.
• Identify, track and communicate key performance indicators for critical equipment.
• Provide support to operations during upset conditions, start-ups and T/As.
• Support on call schedule for weekends, evenings, and holidays

Skills/Competencies

Level of Education & Experience in general

• BS Mechanical Engineering
• 8-10 years plant machinery experience

Technical Skills

• Training Skills
• Keen computer skills with knowledge of MS Office
• Advanced knowledge of turbines, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps and reciprocating compressors.
• Intermediate knowledge of condition monitoring systems and equipment and process trending.
• Intermediate knowledge of PM creation and reliability cantered maintenance and best practices.
• Basic knowledge of PSM
• Proficiency using root cause failure analysis.

Behavioral Skills

• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written
• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Safety role model
• Problem solving skills with data analysis ability

ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions

Outside

Light Work:  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions:  No effective protection from the weather.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions:  Activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold:  Temperatures below 32 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to extreme heat:  Temperatures above 100 degrees F for periods of more than one hour.
• The worker is subject to noise:  There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards:  Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions:  One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin:  fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• The worker is subject to oils:  There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
• The worker is required to wear a respirator.
• The worker is required to don a gas mask.

Inside:

Sedentary Work:  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.  Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes

Employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens, and to adjust focus.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.   Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Measurement and success along with improvements will be monitored by the Manager. Following are the Primary Key Performance Indicators for this position:

• Achieve SHE metric targets for safety and environmental incidents
• Meet or exceed plant production goals
• Meet or exceed production reliability
• AsCare, 20P, MOC/PSM compliance achieved
• Improving MTBR/ MTBF.
• Completion of assigned action items
• Achieve plant department and personal metrics as defined in annual performance assessment

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.