Sr. Process Engineer

Hunt Services Company•Tuscaloosa, AL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Process Engineer will provide senior technical support for personnel, focusing on monitoring refinery operations, advising management and engineering on issues, and assisting technical staff with planning and troubleshooting. This role involves training personnel, reviewing designs and change orders, and troubleshooting refinery problems using engineering principles. The engineer will also be responsible for project development, including identifying improvements for safety, reliability, and profitability, scoping and designing refinery projects, and assisting with commissioning. Additionally, the role requires providing senior technical advisory support to management and other departments, advising on personnel performance, and offering in-depth technical support requiring overall refinery knowledge.

Requirements

Minimum of Bachelor of Science Degree in engineering from an accredited college.
Eight or more years of refinery/petrochemical experience and demonstrated knowledge of refinery processes.
Proven experience in refinery planning or process equipment design.
Demonstrates leadership in improving income generation as well as reducing costs for the refinery.
Self-motivated starter, able to work with very minimal supervision.
Effective at working with other management, other engineers, hourly personnel
Good communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to lead classes that range in size from 2 to 20.
Possess some skill at refinery process software such as simulation software, design software, etc.
Valid driver’s license.
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
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 operations activities, emergency rescue including in atmospheric concentrations that are 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.

Responsibilities

Monitor assigned area(s) and overall refinery operations and advise management and engineering of any issues that may be surfacing.
Advise technical staff and assist them in planning, troubleshooting, unit support, etc.
Assist in training of technical, management, and hourly personnel.
Provide technical review of all designs, MOC’s, and change orders.
Troubleshoot refinery problems by visualizing issues in the field when necessary, using engineering principles and tools, and collaborating with Operations personnel to get the full picture.
Identify minor and major refinery changes that are needed to improve the safety, reliability, profitability, environmental compliance, etc. of process units or systems.
Provide long range development of processes, new product lines, etc. to improve or maintain refinery profitability.
Scope out, develop, and provide process design of refinery projects.
Obtain support and/or funding for major projects.
Assist in commissioning and troubleshooting of major unit or system changes.
Assist in improvement of unit and system procedures.
Serve as coordinator and/or manage long range on-going functions such as PSM programs, etc.
Provide senior technical advisory support to management and other departments in the refining business unit.
Advise management on both technical and non-technical personnel performance and potential.
Provide additional more in-depth technical support for refinery departments where overall across-plant knowledge of refinery is required.