Engineer II - Instrumentation

Westlake•Geismar, LA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Westlake offers the potential to enrich work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment, working to enhance people's lives through products and community presence. Westlake makes chemical and plastic products, serving clients as a quality manufacturer and dependable global supplier of petrochemicals, plastics, and building products. The mission is to enhance daily life through the products and services provided. This role provides engineering design, orders equipment, and coordinates the construction of expense and capital projects, ensuring they meet scope, cost, and schedule requirements. It also provides engineering support to the maintenance organization to help the plant meet its cost and production goals. The position involves primary thinking, compliance with company policies and procedures, and full support of continuous improvement and operational excellence goals, including reviewing areas for improvement and active participation on project teams.

Requirements

B.S. Degree in Engineering, preferable in Chemical or Electrical Engineering
Minimum 5 yrs. engineering design experience and/or chemical or petrochemical plant experience.

Responsibilities

Be proficient with SIS and SIF calculations – obtain all pertinent IEC 61511 certifications
Develop and improve sitewide safety validation plans per IEC 61511
Lead/Monitor SIS and Safety Critical Instruments PMs in SAP
Work with DCS analysts, I/E techs and operations to perform safety validation and update the SAP and other related documentation
Coach operation, production engineers, I/E techs and other stakeholders about IEC-61511 safety standards
Participates in PHA/LOPA and RCA investigations as required
Provides a detailed design in accordance with good instrumentation engineering and safety practices, government regulation, specifications, applicable codes and underwriter requirements.
Inspects new instrumentation for quality and conformance to Westlake specification and update SAP and SPI database
Set site standardization for Instrumentation, approve all purchases to ensure meets sites specs
Maintains Westlake instrumentation design and installation specification document.
Directs Draftsmen, checks drawings and submits for approval.
Coordinates field installation, inspects and accepts work per Westlake instrumentation design and installation standards.
Lead/track Instrumentation Reliability issues and propose solutions, provides engineering consultation and technical guidance as required by Maintenance and Production.
Oversee site Instrumentation Criticality Rankings and Inspection Testing and Preventative Maintenance plans.
Review/update all CapEx instrumentation needs.
This position may be required to drive company vehicles from time to time.
Contributes to creating and maintaining a favorable plant image by encouraging positive relations with employees and the community, encouraging maximum safety efforts and maintaining ethical practices in the plant.