Process Production Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

This position is responsible for engineering functions related to Production, Maintenance, Engineering Department, and Health Safety Environmental objectives including, but not limited to: Process, Control Systems, Piping & Equipment, Special Projects, Environmental Reporting Support, PSM Projects, and Reliability Issues. In addition, this position will support the Technical Department in scale-up engineering of new products, and process control.

DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assisting Production to meet weekly and annual production goals, conduct analysis of process conditions and suggest modification to increase process efficiency and develop proper documentations to comply with integrated management systems.
• Lead the daily maintenance and upgrading of the DCS. Adjust production recipes to meet quality and process requirements and also create recipes from lab scale to commercial implementation.
• Provide support to Management for production and maintenance of special projects and assist Production, Maintenance Manager and Sr. Engineer to ensure capital projects, and plant production meets safety, cost, schedule, and performance goals. Align resources, priorities and actions to strategic operational priorities. Able to identify, develop, and lead projects independently and collaboratively.
• Assist Production Manager and team to implement the Environmental Health and Safety Program and maintain compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA and other Safety, Health and Environmental regulations
• Assist Production Manager to coordinate with maintenance to schedule repairs and/or reduce hazards in a timely manner and to plan and schedule improvement and projects including planning of plant turnarounds.
• The employee is responsible for conducting their activities in adherence to the Company’s Safety, Internal Control, and Integrated Management Systems and in compliance with all MCA corporate policies, procedures and training requirements.
• Participate in Process Hazard Analysis/ HAZOP studies and studies, plan and execute measures to improve process safety.
• Do additional assignments, as needed, to contribute to the achievement of the company’s strategic objectives (e.g., KAITEKI.)

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Process Engineering required
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control equipment, and chemical processes.
• 4+ years work experience in the chemical manufacturing environment
• Experience with production of polymers (highly preferred)
• Good problem solving and communication and writing skills to understand complex issues and relate them to others in constructive ways
• Experience in working in cross functional teams
• Working knowledge of Microsoft products, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Leadership potential is important, this role will be developed into a future production manager position.

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