Process Engineer

Basic Function

LyondellBasell is staffing for a Process Engineer (Olefins) at the Louisiana Integrated Polyethylene JV site. This position requires daily interaction with operations, technical, safety, maintenance, and reliability to drive overall improvements in unit performance.  This role will lead the design and installation of long-term projects to overcome process constraints, resolve reliability issues and comply with environmental regulations.  This will include defining scope, providing front-end-loading, and incorporating process knowledge during engineering phases.  This role will also advise on initiatives to maintain a competitive advantage. The Process Engineer will monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize operating units to drive process and product improvements. During a typical day this position will apply technical knowledge to detect causes of deviations in quality, capacity, yield, and energy consumption.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Collaborates with operations to identify new opportunities to remove constraints to maximize on stream time and profitability while ensuring safe, environmentally complaint, reliable operations
• Analyzes complex operating issues and provides documented recommendations to improve performance
• Leads capital, expense and special project scope development, execution, support, and training
• Leads Management of Change process (MOC/PSSR)
• Provides technical expertise in process safety including, PHAs, PSVs, safety system bypasses, and other PSM activities in the area
• Provides technical expertise during troubleshooting, turnarounds, startups, shutdowns, catalyst changes and other non-routine unit activities
• Reviews engineering calculations to quantify environmental and releases
• Advocates and drive improvements in safety and environmental performance
• Participates on cross-functional improvement teams within the site
• Maintain strong safety and environmental compliance focus 
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize operating units
• Contribute to a team environment and establish work relationships with onsite and offsite functional groups to achieve results 
• Balance day-to-day operational priorities with long term strategic objectives to ensure alignment with company goals 
• Supports gap closure and continuous improvement activities by providing technical expertise, engineering calculations, and justifications for new projects and participating in capital, expense and special project scope development, execution, support, and training
• Determines causes of deviations in quality, capacity, yield, and energy consumption
• Analyzes complex operating issues and provides documented recommendations to improve performance
• Develop and manage KPI

Areas of Expertise

• Understanding of olefins process highly preferred

Min. Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline (Chemical Engineering Degree preferred)
• Five or more years of experience in manufacturing with a background in olefins, refining, petrochemical or chemical plant environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with olefins process
• Background in refinery or petrochemical plants 

Other Skills

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams and interact with all levels of the organization
• Process troubleshooting ability and knowledge of tools and resources to perform such activities
• Innovative thinking to solve complex issues
• Self-motivation and high initiative
• Knowledgeable in the HSE/PSM regulations including Process Hazard Analysis 

Competencies