Utilities Process Engineer

Utility Process Engineer

Department: Industrial Manufacturing

Location: La Porte, TX

Travel Involved: 0-5%

Job Type: Full-time

Description: 

Provide support for Utilities and general facilities at the La Porte site.  The candidate will monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the units driving process improvements will maintaining a strong safety and environmental compliance focus.  The team member will identify, recommend, and implement continuous improvement and capital projects as well as apply technical knowledge to detect and resolve causes of deviations in utilities consumption and provide training to less experienced team members. The individual will contribute to a team environment and establish working relationships with onsite and offsite functional groups to achieve results.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and Implement improvements to value in the areas of health, safety, environment, equipment reliability, utility consumption, and cost at the La Porte site.
• Monitor and assist plant utility operations, troubleshooting issues and improving efficiencies and cost performance.
• Coordinate Management of Change (MOC) process for new and existing projects in the Utility Area.
• Create and implement operating procedures for new processes related to the new and existing equipment. 
•  Act as the La Porte site technical contact with water treatment contracts, participating in periodic meetings for site and business reviews which track performance against the contract and provide reviews of improvement initiatives.
• Implement all Technology Improvements and participate in Technical Exchange Meetings (Internal and External).
• Provide technical guidance for the La Porte site regarding utility consumptions and eco-metrics identifying opportunities and technologies to drive improvements.
• Develop FEL 1 and 2 for Investment Projects and support the remaining gates (FEL3, PDP) including commissioning, training and start up.  Participates in reviews of designs for Investment Projects prepared by outside contractors, vendors, fabricators, and manufacturers. Work closely with Automation to prepare all process control descriptions for improvements or new investment projects.
• Participate in root cause analysis studies to resolve plant process and equipment related issues and any near misses.
• Participate/facilitate in LOPA/PHA studies, develop action plan and resolve, PHA action items, evaluate plant risk scenarios and their protection and mitigation barriers, develop/maintain site Barrier and SCAI’s components.
• Responsible for review and resolution of action item closure from HES, ISO, Insurance audits, and PHA studies.

Requirements:

• B.S. in Engineering.
• Support a variety of projects within budgeted hours and to schedule.
• Have good commercial and fiscal awareness and actively seek the lowest cost alternatives.
• Possess skills to be able to contribute to a team environment and establish work relationships with onsite and offsite functional groups to achieve results.
• Self-motivated taking action to influence events and deliver results as aligned with leadership.
• Good interpersonal, communication and leadership skills; seeking cohesion among stakeholders and influencing other teams/departments as necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communications as well as computer skills. Ability to define problems, collect and interpret data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years prior experience in Utility Operations (water treatment, Steam generation, wastewater, sanitary, and compressed air systems).
• Detailed knowledge of one or more of the following technologies preferred: Ion Exchange, Reverse Osmosis, Clarification, or various water filtration processes
• Knowledge of API codes and OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) individual areas.
• PHA leader certified preferred, LOPA analysis knowledge preferred.
• Knowledge of instrumentation and controls is beneficial, but not crucial
• Knowledge of process simulation software such as Aspen Plus