Senior Process 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:

INEOS Oxide is one of the most diverse, dynamic and successful businesses within INEOS. We operate 5 manufacturing sites in Europe and North America (Antwerp BE, Köln DE, Lavéra FR, Plaquemine US, Bayport, US). We produce a broad range of 200+ products which spread across five key value chains (Ethylene Oxide, Propylene Oxide, Oxoalcohols, Acetic Acid, and ENB), and on many of our products we are the European market leader. Our total manufacturing capacity is above 3 million tonnes per annum generating an annual EBITDA of ~300 M€. INEOS Oxide is an energetic business which is growing actively on a global level, with projects to extend our production base to new sites in North America and Asia in addition to continued investment on our existing platforms. We are committed to resourcing the Procurement team accordingly to deliver on this ambitious growth agenda.

Purpose of the Job:

The Senior Process Engineer will identify, recommend, and implement strategic projects to improve quality, capacity, yield, energy consumption, and process safety performance. The individual will lead process design activities and collaborate with operations, project engineering, and unit specialists to develop and implement capital projects from concept through startup, including FEED, detailed engineering, commissioning, and startup support.

Internal and External Factors:
The candidate is responsible for safe and efficient operation of Bayport Texas EO/D facility. The Process Engineer is responsible for maintaining the plant assets and protective systems integrity. They will identify and implement strategic projects.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Accountabilities:

SHE

• Maintain and control the safe and efficient operation of the production unit using established operating disciplines and procedures.  Ensure safety and environmental compliance is achieved.
• Responsible for maintaining the plant assets and protective systems integrity.
• Assist in defining and maintaining the correct operating envelopes for the organization.  Investigate when deviations outside of the operating envelopes occur.
• Participate in the development of operating procedures and training materials.
• Provide leadership in PSM and Environmental efforts including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change process, Risk Assessments and incident investigations.
  • Input, evaluate and approve MOCs
  • Conduct PSSRs for MOCs
  • Participate in PHAs as the process engineering representative
• Understand and lead by example for all safety and environmental programs.
• Investigate all SHE incidents.
• Routinely collect, report, and address SHE near misses.
• Complete all assigned action items from PHAs, incidents, audits, etc in a timely manner and keep status and plans for action items updated.
• Maintain safety as the highest priority of the plant
• Maintain the 20 Principles of Safety
• Conduct routine AsCare tours and participate in audits.
• Adhere to and uphold all safety policies and standards

Manufacturing Excellence

• Develop systems to improve and sustain value in the areas of health, safety, environment, production rates, reliability, cost and quality.
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve advanced process problems.
• Develop recommendations to improve unit performance.
• Develop and manage Key Performance Indicators for plant performance.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize operating units.
• Lead process design activities for capital and expense projects, including development of process design packages, process simulations, heat and material balances, equipment sizing, PFDs, P&IDs, process datasheets, design basis documents, and engineering contractor reviews.
• Contribute to a team environment and establish work relationships with onsite and offsite functional groups to achieve results.
• Balance day-to-day operational priorities with long term strategic objectives to ensure alignment with company goals.
• Coach less experienced engineers, as well as provide technical training to others.
• Knowledgeable about OSHA 1910.119 Process Safety Management and participate and lead PHA’s, HAZOP analysis, MOC and PSSR.
• Provide technical expertise in PSM activities (PHA, MOC, PSV calculations, Incident Investigations, etc).
• Knowledgeable about Relief System, RV, design and evaluations.    

Skills/Competencies:

Level of Education & Experience in general

• BS Chemical Engineering
• 10+ years of process engineering experience in the chemical, petrochemical, refining, or related process industries with demonstrated process design experience.

Technical Skills

• Training Skills
• Keen computer skills with knowledge of MS Office
• Process modelling using Aspen software
• Demonstrated experience developing heat and material balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment datasheets, process calculations, hydraulic analyses, and equipment sizing.
• Experience supporting FEED, detailed engineering, commissioning, and startup.
• Experience reviewing EPC contractor process deliverables.
• Production support experience alone is not considered equivalent; candidates must have demonstrated process design responsibility.
• Process design package development
• Brownfield and greenfield process design
• Engineering contractor design review
• Equipment sizing
• PSV sizing
• Knowledge of distillation column operations
• Knowledge of PSM
• Knowledge of hydraulics
• Process troubleshooting

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

• Achieve SHE metric targets for safety and environmental incidents
• Meet or exceed plant production goals
• Meet or exceed production supply reliability
• AsCare, 20P, MOC/PSM compliance achieved
• Meet or exceed efficiency targets
• 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.