Senior Process Engineer - Chemicals
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Chemical Engineer, Process Engineer
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Your Job
Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas is looking for a Senior Process Engineer (Chemicals). The Senior Process Engineer is a key member of the site Process Engineering Department as well as a critical support member of Business Teams. The process engineering team is dedicated to being the technical leaders that drive the highest value solution for our partners. You will be joining a technical community of 30+ chemical engineers dedicated to the troubleshooting, optimization, and design improvement of the refinery units
Your Job
Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas is looking for a Senior Process Engineer (Chemicals). The Senior Process Engineer is a key member of the site Process Engineering Department as well as a critical support member of Business Teams. The process engineering team is dedicated to being the technical leaders that drive the highest value solution for our partners. You will be joining a technical community of 30+ chemical engineers dedicated to the troubleshooting, optimization, and design improvement of the refinery units
Our Team
At Flint Hills Resources your career and professional development are a top priority. This includes a personal development plan, assigned mentors, dedicated off-site training, and tuition reimbursement programs. The Process Engineering Department has a proven track record of upward development leading to increasingly challenging roles across Flint Hills Resources and Koch Industries.
What You Will Do
- Building and expanding technical network internally and externally to the company
- Developing value creation ideas and projects economic analysis for assigned units and technologies
- Monitoring long-term unit performance against industry benchmarks
- Supporting the building of a unit monitoring toolkit for Chemical technologies (Naphtha Reforming, Xylene Extraction, Xylene Separation, Cumene, Heavy
- Auditing unit performance reports and long-term calculations
- Reviewing and supporting benchmark studies (Solomon, PTAI studies)
- Ensuring the technical basis of projects meets business objectives
- Mentoring and supporting Production Engineers during unit troubleshooting, unit monitoring, PHAs, critical procedures, monthly Business Review meetings
- Supporting high-profile unit troubleshooting as needed
- Directing and assisting Operations for the design of experiments and process guidelines
- Owning the Process Engineer modeling programs
- Building out the technology loop model using different software such as HYSYS to drive economic decision-making in unit operations.
- Supporting other Physics-based modeling programs
- Providing turnaround program technical support and technical scoping as needed
- Contributing to process safety and environmental performance through Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) programs, Management of Changes (MOC), investigations team
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
- Minimum of ten (10) years of refining or chemical plant process engineering experience
- Previous experience with Naphtha Reforming, Xylene Extraction, Parex, Xylene Isomerization, Cumene, units
- Fifteen (15) years of refinery experience
- Five (5) + years of Process Engineering experience
- Experience as a Process Engineer or Project Engineer leading projects in an oil refinery
- Process modeling simulation with Aspen HYSYS
- Experience leading cross-functional teams
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and…
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