HSRC Plant Engineer II

Hunt•Heidelberg, MS

About The Position

The Plant Engineer II role provides on-demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups within a refinery setting. This position serves as a skilled troubleshooter, developing technical solutions based on cost-benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance. The engineer will prepare specifications, drawings, and bid packages for equipment purchase, construction, and repair. They will act as a technical resource for their assigned area, applying engineering principles to solve reliability issues and managing project engineering activities for new construction and revamp projects. Responsibilities include developing scopes of work, schedules, and cost estimates for projects, providing equipment repair recommendations, participating in root cause analysis, staying updated on technologies, performing fitness for service evaluations, auditing maintenance and operations practices, coordinating consultants, and assisting in the development of engineering standards and training programs. The role also involves providing engineering support for unit shutdowns and turnarounds, and communicating effectively for safe and efficient operations. The position includes on-call duty and potential overtime assignments.

Requirements

B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering or equivalent.
Three to six years in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other related industrial experience.
Proficient in use of personal computers and office software applications.
Ability to speak and read English fluently.
Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.
Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics.
Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to work in a team environment.
Leadership and motivational skills for peers.
Self motivated with 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/overtime assignments.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge in P6 or Microsoft Project is a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide on demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups.
Serve as a skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
Develop technical solutions independently based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
Serve as a “go-to” technical resource for assigned area or technology to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.
Develop detailed scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for small-medium scale projects (<$1MM) by using company’s project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).
Provide equipment repair, replacement and metallurgical recommendations.
Participate in formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.
Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
Assist in auditing of Maintenance and Operations practices to improve reliability and operability of refinery process equipment.
Coordinate services of engineering and other consultants as required.
Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
Assist in identification, development and implementation of training programs as needed for others in the engineering, maintenance, and operations departments.
Communicate with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities.
Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.
Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.