Process Control Engineer

The Olefins & Polymers USA division of INEOS is one of the largest producers of olefins and polyolefins in North America. From its manufacturing locations at Chocolate Bayou and the Battleground Manufacturing Complex, it is a merchant marketer of butadiene, ethylene, polypropylene and high-density polyethylene with annual revenue of over $4b.

The Chocolate Bayou Site is located in southeastern Texas about 40 miles south of Houston and consists of two olefins units that produce approximately 4bn pounds/year of ethylene, 2 polypropylene units that produce approximately 1bn pounds/year of polypropylene, and the light ends storage & transfer facilities at stratton ridge.

This Lead Process Control Engineer role is part of the Process Control and Operational Technology team, part of the Central Applied Technology organization. Engineers in this group support daily unit operations, advanced applications, process control infrastructure systems, and projects across O&P USA. This role will lead unit process control engineers, support advanced DCS applications and perform hands‑on projects for Chocolate Bayou site and pipeline supply organization (PSO).

The position is accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, this position has a special responsibility to cascade the understanding of these principles throughout their work group.

Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site.

Supporting activities:

• Accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles.
• Ensure process hazards are systematically identified, risk assessed, reviewed and managed.
• Always place safe operation or shutdown of the asset ahead of production.
• When in doubt ensure the asset is always taken to its safest state.
• Ensure assets operating envelopes and protective systems are in place to deliver safe operation and maintain asset integrity.
• Identify and establish operating, maintenance, and CAPEX strategies to drive asset integrity and environmental compliance.
• Promote, ensure and sustain commitment to operating assets with no harm to people and to the environment by visibly demonstrating Safety Leadership.
• Ensure that a comprehensive SHE management process delivers and improves safety performance through incident reporting, behavioral awareness, compliance to policies, audits, and corrective action tracking/resolution and incident investigation.
• Organize, lead and support site safety committees and emergency response teams.

Technical assurance for the timely front end engineering design for capital projects, including

• Lead assigned projects from early FEL to completion.
• Responsible for interface with project management to ensure projects success in terms of functionality, budget and scope
• Manage project scope and provide technical guidance to process control engineers’ / control system engineers.
• Work seamlessly with other pertaining groups such as instrumentation/ analyzers & operations to identify interfaces and solving any potential hurdles for project execution
• Responsible for all project pertaining documentations and related MOC’s that are assigned
• Interface with site leadership & operations to ensure projects installed are turned over to operations and functional as designed
• Provide Process control engineering quality assurance of the EPC deliverables.
• Ensure Process control standards are followed in all assigned projects; work with technical authority and Team leads to address any standard deviations.
• Complete all related documentation from project inception to…