Production Engineer (VCM)
Westlake•Plaquemine, LA
•Onsite
About The Position
This position will be responsible for optimizing plant operations to ensure efficient production of quality products while maintaining safety and environmental compliance, and will lead the process improvement effort through the use of SPC and technical service skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering required
- Minimum of 2 years of experience, preferably in steady-state process design or production
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Proficient computer skills, with good working knowledge of all standard company applications (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.)
- Ability to lead groups of people
- Ability to make sound decisions based upon technical information
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates strong safety culture through personal behavior and commitment to environmental, health & safety.
- Participates in and supports Westlake’s SIT/USIT, PACE, and SafeStart initiatives.
- Promote and support Westlake’s Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) activities as part of the department team.
- Assist daily plant operations in the production of quality products at specified rates and in compliance with environmental and OSHA regulations.
- Gain working knowledge of the plant in order to identify improvement opportunities.
- Use Statistical Process Control in the continuous improvement effort.
- Assists plant maintenance in achieving reliable equipment operation at minimum cost.
- Prepares monthly and other reports required to keep management informed on performance of operation, improvements made and other items as necessary.
- Assist in the preparation of capital requests necessary to improve plant operations.
- Manage small to mid-sized capital projects as appropriate.
- Participate on cross-functional teams as necessary.
- Maintain information (files and documentation) for plant process, equipment and technology.
- Knowledge of complete process or technology.
- Assist in troubleshooting and solve problems of large systems and processes.
- Successfully manages small teams to achieve objectives.
- Develops basic data, including P & ID’s; heat and material balances; and basic control strategies, for moderate projects.
- Other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
