Production Engineer - Kittery

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Principal Responsibilities

• Provide engineering support to production management for capital projects, turnarounds, relife programs, and performance monitoring and improvement programs.
• Coordinate with the Remote Operations Center (ROC) and central engineering teams to address efficiency and throughput gaps.
• Lead efforts to increase reliability and decrease unplanned downtime costs while diagnosing plant issues and trends to provide engineering solutions.
• Collaboratively conduct investigations and troubleshooting in conjunction with SMEs as it relates to process safety events, plant issues, incidents, nuisance alarms and alarm management.
• Provide operational support for plant shutdowns, startup and outages/turnarounds. Participate in both planning and execution to ensure successful completion of critical work scope
• Identify potential projects which can create cost savings and/or increases in productivity.
• Work closely with plant leaders to develop projects in the medium and long-term productivity pipeline, aligned with the regional strategy.
• Be responsible for engineering management of change process at assigned plants, including required process safety management aspects such as pre-start-up safety reviews.
• Increase people capabilities in the region by providing process training to stakeholders.
• Oversight and ownership of the environmental and water treatment programs.
• Support site hydrocarbon risk assessments with the process engineering group.
• Lead efforts to update and maintain Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&’s), electrical single line diagrams, trip & interlock lists, alarm databases and programmable logic controller input/output lists (PLC IO lists). Serve as interim Zone Production Manager when leader is absent.
• Be available for on-call duty and after-hours support as required.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop and maintain of a strong safety culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in chemical manufacturing, reliability, supply chain and/or industrial gas industry is preferred.
• Experience in operational excellence or Lean/Six Sigma a plus.
• Leadership, communication, facilitation, interpersonal, analytical and MS Office skills (especially Excel).
• Knowledgeable of operations bulk and tonnage organization and business processes.
• Experience with process equipment; P&IDs, process piping, pressure vessels, instrumentation, controls, process safety reviews (HAZOP) and LOPA.