Engineer Sr.-Process

Primary Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot existing plant operations and implement new process improvement ideas to ensure that Westlake Monomers meets key plant goals and objectives for Personnel Health/Safety, Environmental Protection, Raw Material Usage, VCM Production, and Operating Costs.
• Stay abreast of the latest EDC/VCM manufacturing technologies (VCM Excellence team exchange, literature reviews, etc.).
• Make recommendations as required to ensure that Westlake Monomers is a competitive EDC/VCM production facility.
• Supervise work activities for the process engineering group.
• Develop key employee work goals and objectives.
• Evaluate individual performance and recommend corrective actions as required to improve performance.
• Assign responsibilities for monitoring plant conformance to safety and environmental regulations.
• Direct process calculations as required to assist Safety and Environmental groups.
• Recommend process improvements and initiate new projects as required to meet new Safety/Environmental regulations and/or improve compliance with existing regulations.
• Coordinate work activities between the process engineering group and the other plant support groups (production, project engineering, maintenance, accounting, environmental, and safety).
• Develop overall plant budgets for raw material and utility usages.
• Supervise routine monitoring and analysis of plant raw material and utility usages.
• Recommend appropriate plant operating conditions and process controls as required to optimize raw material and utility efficiencies.
• Review/Edit monthly progress reports.
• Assign responsibilities for monitoring daily plant operating conditions, maintaining current operating conditions, maintaining current operating logs and current operator data sheets.
• Assign responsibilities for monitoring equipment uptimes and maintenance requirements for key process equipment.
• Direct process equipment inspections and recommend repairs.
• Review/Edit monthly Reports.
• Assign responsibilities for monitoring daily plant lab test results, maintaining current lab sample schedules, and laboratory database.
• Approve sample result action limits.
• Review reports and results.
• Coordinate plant process revisions.
• Ensure that appropriate MOCs have been initiated, approve plant MOCs and supervise process engineering group procedures/training activities.
• Approve final process revisions and revised plant PFDs and P&IDs.
• Supervise plant material and energy balances work as required.
• Direct and evaluate data collection for special plant studies and test projects.
• Review/edit results and reports.
• Supervise process design work for new plant projects.
• Approve final project scope, PFDs, and P&IDs.
• Direct development of new procedures, operator training, and process startup activities as required by process engineering group.
• Assist project engineering group with AFE preparation, evaluate plant project benefits, and set priorities for project implementations.
• Work with project engineering to develop plant capital spending plan and develop project schedules.

• B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Eight years progressive experience including operating and process design in a chemical plant.

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.