Production Engineer

TPC•Houston, TX

23h•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Engineer is a key role within the organization. The production engineer will manage engineering support for a specific product or group of products. The successful candidate will have visibility across many functional groups and will continuously drive to optimize efficiency, reliability, safety, environmental, and production at TPC.

Requirements

Completion of an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering.
4+ years of Manufacturing experience.
Knowledge of Process Safety Management is required.
Willingness to provide after-hours support including weekends and holidays.
All applicants must be eligible to work for any employer in the United States without needing any company sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ASPEN and other modeling and data historian tools preferred

Responsibilities

Leads the technical engineering troubleshooting of the unit and supports plant as needed to drive a continuous improvement mentality.
Drives unit performance to the optimal capability of the assets with respect to volume, yields, unit consumption, reliability, and quality.
Supports the achievement of production targets by maintaining and monitoring performance metrics.
Ensures accurate accounting of all unit production losses and drives actions to minimize or correct.
Supports unit PSM program and compliance.
Provides engineering support for a specific product or group of products.
Collaborates with design, process, process improvement, and reliability engineering to solve problems.
Under general supervision, performs all conventional aspects of engineering work.
Monitor and leads unit performance by tracking and reporting key (process) performance indicators (KPIs) and key operating parameters (KOPs).
Develops and monitors the plant unit capacities MSDR and OSR to lead the performance improvement of the unit.
Collaborates with Process Control to develop process control strategy, maintain DCS code, and ensure that DCS data is maintained.
Identify and evaluate EH&S risks.
Performs incident investigations and root cause analysis teams.
Assist in tracking of unit regulatory compliance including validation of emission calculations for areas of responsibility.
Work with Operations personnel to ensure operating procedures are valid and up to date.
Communicate technical information and issues to plant personnel.
Conducts engineering studies.
Evaluates feasibility and economics of proposed projects.
Support projects for proper execution in all the phases.
Drives MOCs to ensure all process safety risks are properly addressed and changes are thoroughly completed.
Participates in PHA teams and provide technical input for process safety information.
Communicate with Production Planning Managers to ensure the production plan can be achieved and any constraints are known.
Primary point of contact for maintaining unit process safety information (PSI).
Supports commissioning and inspection activities during schedule and unscheduled outages for the specific unit of responsibility.
Available evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed to support turnarounds, outages, and any other business needs.