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Process Engineer
Job Description
Sirius Staffing is seeking a Process Engineer for a direct hire opportunity in Tuscaloosa, AL. This role provides operations support, technical guidance, and troubleshooting for the refinery processing units and operating systems.
In this role, the Engineer assists in maintaining the safety, reliability, effectiveness, and profitability of operations under their responsibility.
Rate: $130K-140K
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from a four-year university.
- 5-8 years of experience in a refinery, chemical plant, or related industry setting.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).
- Strong understanding of refinery processes and related operations.
- Proven experience in refinery planning or process equipment design.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize operations, improve profitability, and reduce costs within a refinery.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Effective collaborator, able to work with management, engineers, and hourly personnel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead training sessions of 2 to 20 participants.
- Proficiency in refinery process simulation and design software.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Must have the following:
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Leadership and motivational skills for peers
- Self-motivated with the desire to learn and develop new skills
- Exhibit a “can-do” attitude and spirit of cooperation
- Support management objectives
- Subject to periodic “on-call” duty and non-scheduled call-in
- Subject to periodic turnaround technical support, including holidays and night shifts.
This position requires the individual to be certified to use respiratory protection, which includes:
fresh air work requiring a tight-fitting full-face mask and a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) weighing up to 35 lbs. Conditions during use could be routine maintenance or operational activities, emergency rescue, and atmospheric concentrations immediately dangerous to life and health. Use of such a device requires sufficient pulmonary and respiratory health and prohibits, at any time in the course of work, facial hair that comes between the sealing surface of the facepiece and the face or that interferes with the facepiece valve function or other obstructions preventing an adequate facial fit.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Operations Support:
- Perform process monitoring on day-to-day operations and advise management and engineering of any issues that may be developing.
- Identify and troubleshoot process limitations/problems and lead in resolution.
- Follow trends in operational data and identify potential problems in early stages, communicate suspicions, and work toward avoidance resolution.
- Assist Operations in unit or system start-up, shutdown, and preparations for equipment maintenance.
- Reduce existing processes' costs through energy conservation, unit optimization, etc.
- Identify needed design or operational changes to maintain the effectiveness of the processes.
- Advise Management of operational changes needed to achieve process goals and requirements.
- Perform PSM functions including HAZOP participation, resolution of HAZOP recommendations, MOC preparation, and review.
- Assist Operational Specialist in the performance of their duties.
- Assist Operations in the development of unit and system procedures.
- Assist operations and mechanical personnel in resolving issues they encounter.
- Assist in training, especially the technical aspects of the processes.
Process Improvement:
- Identify changes that are needed to improve the safety, reliability, profitability, etc. of process units or systems
- Develop and design attractive process units or system changes.
- Prepare MOCs and obtain support and/or funding for changes
- Assist in the commissioning and troubleshooting of unit or system changes
- Assist in the improvement of unit and system procedures
Process and/or System Technical Point contact:
- Become aware of all environmental rules that apply to units and systems and assist in compliance with the laws and regulations.
- Assist the Environmental, Health & Safety Department technically during the maintenance of regulations and in the development of new/or changing regulations
- Assist all other organizational departments where technical assistance is required, specific to the processes and systems.
- Proficient in engineering/design software.
- Lead formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Assist in the development and growth of technical and hourly personnel.
Sirius Staffing is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to characteristics such as race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by law.
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