Process Engineer

Job Summary

The Refinery Process Engineer is responsible for providing technical guidance on operating units within a refinery that maintains and improves the safety, environmental standards, and operating cost of the refinery. This role plans, directs, and coordinates activities concerned with design, modification, optimization and operation of process equipment in the Refinery by performing the following duties personally or by coordinating the activities with operations, and maintenance and contract personnel.

This position is a key in establishing and promoting a collaborative culture focused on safe, environmentally compliant, reliable, and optimized operations. This role evaluates process unit operating performance, implements recommendations for optimization, and supports capital improvements in support of long term sustainable performance.

• Provide process engineering technical support to production units, environmental activities and plant projects to improve unit operations, process safety and environmental performance
• Support process safety, safety, and environmental compliance by participating in process hazard analysis, incident investigations, procedure development, management of change, alarm management, pressure protection management, and providing technical assistance for work scope development, assessment of process impacts on equipment, and environmental reviews.
• Maintain environmental compliance by supporting environmental calculations, establish operating parameters, providing input into permit development, and providing accurate data as required
• Provide process engineering technical assistance to process operations for solving operating problems, optimizing, and improving production planning
• Design improvements for process units which to production capacity, efficiency, process safety and environmental performance including complex designs
• Provide process support to Plant Engineering activities, usually involving preparation of major appropriation requests or execution of detailed engineering of projects
• Work with support teams to monitor unit operations, correct problems and assist in improvements, usually for special problems or projects
• Support to maintain and ensure continuous operation, including assistance during operational upsets or turnarounds
• Support turnaround and unit shutdown planning and execution through participation in scope development, providing justification for work items, and providing technical support during shutdown/startup and outage timeframe
• Coordinate and assist in implementation of plant system changes, including equipment additions, modifications and/or deletions and process design
• Assist in writing and reviewing unit operating procedures in assigned areas
• Maintain knowledge of latest technologies and best practices for refining industry
• Provide process design data for potential refinery improvements, expansions, and compliance projects
• Develop efficiency strategies which optimize process unit profitability by maximizing throughput and yields while minimizing operating costs
• Maintain heat and material balances on assigned units
• Calculate and analyze yields and conversion on assigned units
• Support process engineering with plant material balances, yields, closures, project design scope, etc. as deemed necessary to maintain operations
• Monitor and does analyses of utility and raw material consumption for cost estimation and reduction project
• Provide operational and technical support for any plant system change. Includes operational review, assistance with cost/benefit analysis, and participating in hazard reviews
• Complete process engineering study and design for new projects and coordinate with Engineering Department to develop estimates, define scope, and complete projects
• Communicate and document process engineering activities in unit support, design, plant engineering, environmental and process safety support activities with little or no review required
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering
• Experience in refinery, chemical or petrochemical plant process or production operations or…