Process Engineer

Business Area:
Engineering and Engineering Services
At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you'll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas.

You'll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions. Our eight manufacturing complexes in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, an unparalleled storage, transportation and distribution network in North America, and logistics capabilities enabling a global reach underpin our strategy to leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the worlds transition to clean energy.
Function  

Job Summary  

Position Overview  CF Industries is currently seeking a Process Engineer to join our Engineering Department, located at our Medicine Hat Complex. Reporting to the Superintendent, Process Engineering, the Process Engineer plays an essential role ensuring the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the Medicine Hat Complex, developing projects; primarily process design, justification, and evaluating EHS risks assessment supporting development of the capital projects of the site.
The Process Engineer is a rotational assignment responsible for plant monitoring, identifying methods to optimize the plant performance and troubleshooting operational problems in close association with the Production Department and/or providing the day-to-day technical support to various departments and administrative oversight to front end engineering design for MOCs.

What you’ll do:

Be responsible for day-to-day technical support for departments (Maintenance, EHS, Procurement etc.), usually helping study improvement opportunities to enhance plant safety, efficiency, productivity and reliability.
Be responsible for plant monitoring and troubleshooting on a day-to-day basis for the assigned plant. Provide engineering recommendations to improve plant performance or maintain operational targets to ensure the safe, reliable, efficient, and environmentally compliant of the plant operations.
Lead and/or support the development of projects and MOCs supporting the planning, organization, cost control and implementation of approved projects. These projects will include purchasing new equipment, replacing equipment already in use at site, modifications, or additions to existing equipment and implementing changes through CF's Management of Change (MOC) system.
Perform engineering calculations for sizing process equipment and provide complete process design conditions for approved maintenance activities, projects and MOCs, developing process stamped datasheets and identifying minimum, normal and maximum safe process operating conditions for the systems and process equipment. Collaborate with others in the Engineering, Maintenance, and Production Departments to gather necessary data.
Participate and provide support during plant upsets, startups and turnarounds by providing recommendations for required equipment maintenance, supervising specific jobs (i.e. catalyst replacements, vessels and heat exchanger cleaning), and performing equipment inspections. Also provide contractor oversight and supervision during catalyst changes and heat exchanger cleaning, and other tasks as requested by the Maintenance and Engineering department.
Support approved projects as an engineering resource, through detailed design, construction, and commissioning phase.
Support the EHS department participating in Process Hazard Analysis studies to reduce and minimize the operational risk and hazards through the development of Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), Continuous to Run Risk Assessment (CtRRA), developing Loss of Process Containment (LOPC) calculations and leading/supporting incident investigations.
Develop, update and maintain key process documentation such as PFDs, P&IDs, plant simulations, process equipment and instrumentation datasheets based on engineering standards.
Develop and elaborate technical plant reports to follow-up the plant operational performance and track the energy consumption, production rates, production losses, process equipment performance and catalysts conversion efficiency.
Act as designated site contact for outside contractors working on our plant site following all requirements as specified in CF's Contractor Management Program.
The Process Engineer will have direct impact on the efficiency, production rates & profitability of the plants and site acting as a gatekeeper for all new ideas to improve the plants ensuring the company only…