Refining Process Engineer

Refining Process Engineer at a growth-oriented downstream energy company. Rapidly integrate into the organization through collaboration with operations, maintenance, engineering, and technical functions. Develop into a technical subject matter expert with opportunity to influence the success of the larger refinery team. Reporting to the Process Engineering Supervisor, you will provide technical support to ensure safe, reliable, and profitable operation of the assigned units within your Business Team.

• Responsible for daily and long‑term monitoring in your area; identify operational deviations from short and long‑range refinery strategy (e.g., catalyst activity degradation, increasing pressure drop, product yield shifts and equipment performance concerns).
• Support unit operational performance and run plan target compliance, ensuring deviations are addressed (e.g., unit signals/constraints, key margin variables, key energy variables).
• Initiate process engineering change management.
• Participate in incident investigations and follow‑up, risk screening and assessments, equipment strategy development, HAZOPs, and safety relief review studies.
• Support implementation and sustainment of unit operating limits/envelopes and targets, ensuring all deviations are understood and addressed.
• Support for unit planned or unplanned outages, structured troubleshooting efforts and abnormal operations with review of problem consequence analysis (PCA) and incident response team (IRT) membership.
• Develop technical work plans and meet turnaround process technical functional milestones for planned maintenance events.
• Scope and develop margin, reliability and safety improvement projects.
• Support catalyst selection, catalyst change‑out planning, and vessel verification practices/quality standards.
• Participate in development of tactical plans to translate key focus areas (KFA) and business plan objectives into resource‑balanced activities for the technical function.

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience; candidates with greater qualifications considered for higher level position.
• Willingness to provide off‑hours support of abnormal and non‑routine operation.
• Ability to physically enter process vessels (towers, drums, reactors) for internal process inspections during equipment maintenance.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and proven ability to influence others.
• Effective analytical problem‑solving capabilities and ability to adapt to changing time pressures.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; 401(k) with company match; retirement savings plans; educational reimbursement; company stock purchase program; voluntary critical illness, accident, life/AD&D insurance; flexible spending account; employee assistance program.

Billings, Montana, USA.

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