Plant Engineer

R Plant Engineer (Open) Location Freeport, TX - Victoria St (HYCO) - HYCO Air Liquide Large Industries provides our customers with industrial gas and energy solutions that are vital to their own industrial production. We own and operate over 2,000 miles of industrial gas pipelines in the U.S. supplying mainly oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and syngas in large quantities from multiple production sources to major customers in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refining and steel industries.

Our pipeline operations and industrial gas production facilities are closely monitored 24/7 within our leading-edge operations control center located in Houston, Texas. Our operations control group monitors over 89,000 data points and assists with product supply and coordination. We are constantly optimizing our supply network to provide high reliability and energy efficiencies allowing Air Liquide to adjust supply needs more quickly and effectively enabling growth to our customers.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

• The primary objective and goal of this position is to provide technical support to operational teams by suggesting opportunities for process improvement as well as refurbishment projects in production plants, while ensuring safety, reliability and efficiency of equipment.
• The incumbent ensures that projects are properly executed to meet production objectives, while promoting ALC's quality and safety objectives.
• Provides technical and process support to production units:
  Solves operating problems. Assists in plant start‑up and optimization. Implements planning and control techniques. Helps identify production problems, develop specifications for production procedures and revise existing procedures. Informs employees of company procedures and policies.
• Optimizes and innovates plant processes and systems:
  Anticipates production needs and identifies, recommends and implements changes in plant processes, equipment and systems to improve plant safety, reliability and efficiency. Analyzes new equipment. Optimizes resources to be used. Improves and develops individual contributions and new working methods.
• Monitors activity: evaluates industrial performance. Proposes objectives based on production priorities and direction. Ensures the success of the project and the sustainability of the results obtained. Evaluates and improves performance in the following areas: safety, environment, production quality, profitability, equipment reliability, production capacity and process improvement.
• Plans and manages plant projects:
  Responsible for local plant projects and acts as facilitator for major projects managed by the project team. Follows up projects from planning to commissioning, using project management processes. Ensure that change management processes (MOC) and documentation control are properly executed.
• Process improvement:
  Works in cooperation with his/her team and cross‑functional teams to continuously improve work processes. Analyzes the operation of the business, identifies the causes of malfunctions and proposes appropriate corrective measures.
• Quality /Safety:
  Contributes to the definition and implementation of recommendations and procedures. Teaches others about risk management. Carries out audits and preventive actions to improve safety/quality. Identifies potentially risky situations and implements the necessary corrective actions. Ensures regulatory requirements and deadlines are met. Includes prevention of future risks at the design stage. Ensures plant site safety and quality.

• This position requires a Bachelor of Engineering degree (preferably in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering).
• 1-5 years of engineering experience (preferably in an industrial plant setting).

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