Production Engineer (60231)

LSB INDUSTRIES•Pryor Creek, OK

30d•Onsite

About The Position

LSB Industries is seeking a Production Engineer for their facility in Pryor, OK. This role reports to the Manufacturing Manager and is responsible for maximizing plant availability and capacity utilization (OEE). The Production Engineer will lead assigned assets, providing technical oversight and cross-functional coordination to ensure maintenance, engineering, and reliability efforts focus on eliminating downtime, reducing operational risk, and achieving production targets. The position is based in a continuous chemical manufacturing facility and requires a willingness to work around industrial equipment, chemicals, and varying environmental conditions, while adhering to strict safety and security protocols.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering
Minimum of three years of relevant experience
Experience within a PSM-covered continuous chemical, process, or petrochemical manufacturing environment
Working knowledge of fixed, rotating, and electrical equipment failure modes
Experience supporting failure mode analysis and root cause investigations
Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with operations personnel
Ability to effectively teach, coach, and mentor team members

Responsibilities

Analyze lost-production data, equipment reliability, and repair frequency to identify bad actors, quantify production impact, prioritize improvement opportunities, coordinate development and implementation of corrective actions, and verify resulting improvements in production and asset availability.
Support the Mechanical Integrity program for piping, tanks, vessels, and structural equipment.
Evaluate the operational and business impact of identified conditions, prioritize mitigation and corrective actions, coordinate operating constraints and interim safeguards, escalate overdue or unacceptable risks, and verify that approved corrective actions are completed and effective.
Prioritize and communicate risks to equipment reliability and long-term operability.
Lead the Potential Business Interrupter (PBI) process for assigned assets by maintaining the risk register, facilitating risk evaluations, recommending priorities and mitigation plans, escalating unresolved risks, and verifying that corrective actions are completed and effective.
Lead and participate in cross-functional Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), incident investigation, and equipment improvement teams.
Ensure recommendations are practical, assigned actions are tracked, and completed improvements deliver sustainable production and reliability results.
Coordinate the development and implementation of equipment strategies that improve long-term plant uptime, including asset care strategies, preventive and condition-based maintenance improvements, critical spare requirements, asset preservation plans, and equipment rationalization opportunities.
Define operational priorities and performance requirements and verify that implemented strategies address identified production and reliability risks.
Support the Gatekeeper process by identifying, developing, and prioritizing maintenance outage and turnaround scope based on production risk, equipment condition, compliance requirements, and business impact.
Define operational scope priorities and readiness requirements and coordinate execution support to ensure approved work addresses identified risks and performance objectives.
Lead development and prioritization of proposed turnaround scope for assigned assets based on production risk, mechanical integrity requirements, reliability needs, compliance obligations, and business impact.
Coordinate scope development and change management, define operating-readiness requirements, and verify that approved scope addresses identified operational risks and performance objectives.
Lead development and prioritization of capital project inputs for assigned assets by defining the business need, production impact, operational requirements, expected benefits, and success criteria.
Confirm that proposed projects address identified operational risks or performance gaps and verify delivery of the intended business benefit.
Lead assigned small-capital projects from scope development through implementation and closeout.
Define business needs and operational requirements, coordinate technical input, manage project cost and schedule, ensure Management of Change (MOC) and operating-readiness requirements are completed, and verify that projects deliver the intended operational benefit.
Coordinate operational requirements and cross-functional support for equipment improvements and complex maintenance repairs involving third-party engineering partners.
Establish production priorities, operating constraints, equipment access and return-to-service requirements, and post-repair performance expectations, and verify that completed work supports safe and reliable operation.
Initiate and coordinate Management of Change activities for assigned operational changes.
Define the production basis, operating requirements, implementation needs, and readiness criteria; coordinate completion of required reviews and action items; and verify that operational deliverables are complete before implementation and startup.
Prepare monthly management reports summarizing asset performance, reliability activities, PBI status, emerging production risks, corrective-action progress, and key decisions or leadership support required to improve asset performance.
Lead and support T2a and T2b LSB Way improvement activities by identifying improvement opportunities, supporting structured problem solving, completing assigned actions, and sustaining implemented improvements.