Staff Lead Process Engineer

PBF Energy • Oregon, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

PBF Energy is seeking a Process Lead Engineer for its Toledo Refinery in Oregon, Ohio. The role provides technical leadership to assigned refinery areas and directly supervises Unit Process Engineers, ensuring they have the direction, resources, training, and support needed to serve refinery Business Teams effectively.

As a technical leader in the Technical Service organization, the Process Lead Engineer leads complex refinery troubleshooting, multi-unit technical issues, process optimization, technical planning, and turnaround activities. This is a hands-on position that takes ownership of challenging problems, organizes multidisciplinary teams, provides sound engineering direction, and drives issues to resolution. The role also leads and develops assigned Unit Process Engineers and Co-op students and shares responsibility for management of the Toledo process engineering Co-op program.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from an accredited university.
• At least 8 years of relevant refinery or oil and gas engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting refinery process and operational issues.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring ability.
• Experience working across multiple refinery process units.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Business Teams, and other refinery functions.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical involvement with effective delegation and development of Unit Process Engineers.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced refinery environment and respond to changing operational priorities.
• Strong commitment to safety, process safety, environmental compliance, and operational excellence.

Nice To Haves

• 10 years of relevant refinery or oil and gas engineering experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and support to assigned Unit Process Engineers and ensure they effectively support refinery Business Teams.
• Lead troubleshooting and technical support during significant unit upsets, outages, startups, shutdowns, and other abnormal operating conditions.
• Support the development and implementation of process improvements, optimization opportunities, and best practices.
• Review and guide process engineering work performed by Unit Process Engineers, ensuring appropriate technical rigor in recommendations, calculations, studies, and projects.
• Establish priorities with Unit Process Engineers and regularly review their progress, workload, and competing priorities.
• Ensure unit monitoring programs, material balances, long-term monitoring, catalyst health programs, and other critical technical programs are maintained and used effectively.
• Use knowledge of refinery operating constraints and available business and economic information to support process optimization decisions.
• Review and approve appropriate process engineering calculations and documentation, including emissions and release calculations prepared by Unit Process Engineers.
• Understand key refinery environmental requirements and support compliance with applicable limits.
• Participate in turnaround planning, scope development, execution, and post-turnaround follow-up.
• Provide technical leadership during turnarounds, including unit preparation, startup, shutdown, equipment inspection, catalyst loading and unloading, and evaluation of as-found equipment conditions.
• Provide engineering leadership and technical support outside normal working hours when required by operations, significant events, or turnaround activities.
• Cover assigned units and act as a backup engineer when resources are unavailable.
• Directly supervise up to five Unit Process Engineers and up to two Co-op students.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, mentoring, and technical development for assigned employees.
• Set clear priorities and expectations for Unit Process Engineers and routinely review workload and performance.
• Help develop engineers for broader refinery leadership and technical roles.
• Share responsibility with the other Process Lead Engineer for managing the Toledo process engineering Co-op program.
• Develop and maintain meaningful technical assignments and priorities for Co-op students.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, and performance evaluations for assigned Co-op students.
• Support Co-op student recruitment, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior