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Production Engineer

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.

Position deliverables include:

• Leading the technical engineering troubleshooting of the unit and supporting the plant as needed to drive a continuous improvement mentality.
• Driving unit performance to the optimal capability of the assets with respect to volume, yields, unit consumption, reliability, and quality.
• Supporting the achievement of production targets by maintaining and monitoring performance metrics.
• Ensuring accurate accounting of all unit production losses and driving actions to minimize or correct.
• Supporting unit PSM program and compliance.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Providing engineering support for a specific product or group of products.
• Collaborating with design, process, process improvement, and reliability engineering to solve problems.
• Performing all conventional aspects of engineering work under general supervision.
• Monitoring and leading unit performance by tracking and reporting key performance indicators and key operating parameters.
• Developing and monitoring the plant unit capacities MSDR and OSR to lead the performance improvement of the unit.
• Collaborating with Process Control to develop process control strategy, maintain DCS code, and ensure that DCS data is maintained.
• Identifying and evaluating EH&S risks.
• Performing incident investigations and root cause analysis teams.
• Assisting in tracking of unit regulatory compliance including validation of emission calculations for areas of responsibility.
• Working with Operations personnel to ensure operating procedures are valid and up to date.
• Communicating technical information and issues to plant personnel.
• Conducting engineering studies.
• Evaluating the feasibility and economics of proposed projects.
• Supporting projects for proper execution in all the phases.
• Driving MOCs to ensure all process safety risks are properly addressed and changes are thoroughly completed.
• Participating in PHA teams and providing technical input for process safety information.
• Communicating with Production Planning Managers to ensure the production plan can be achieved and any constraints are known.
• Being the primary point of contact for maintaining unit process safety information (PSI).
• Supporting commissioning and inspection activities during schedule and unscheduled outages for the specific unit of responsibility.
• Being available evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed to support turnarounds, outages, and any other business needs.

Role specific knowledge includes:

• An experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
• Demonstrates ability to drive projects and teams to maximum productivity and completion.
• Demonstrates excellence in troubleshooting operating and maintenance issues and formulating effective preventive strategies.
• Demonstrates ability to assimilate information and draw conclusions that are different from others and are likely to lead to operational success if implemented.
• Expertise and leadership in root cause failure analysis and preventive strategies.
• Demonstrates track record of mentoring other people by setting the example for others in areas of technical knowledge, productivity, initiative, and leadership in core values such as safety, environmental compliance, ethics, and respectful treatment of people.
• Demonstrated support of business goals, company direction, and policy decisions.

Required qualifications include:

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering.
• 4+ years of Manufacturing experience.
• Experience with ASPEN and other modeling and data historian tools preferred.
• 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.

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