Job Description: Element Staffing is recruiting for a SeniorProcess Engineer for a specialty chemical plant in SE Houston. The Senior Process Engineer is responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and working to improve plant processes. This includes improving equipment reliability, plant productivity, product quality, and process safety, reducing downtime, costs and utility usage and innovating solutions to recurring process issues. In monitoring and troubleshooting the process, the incumbent must collect the necessary data and information and use engineering techniques, statistical analysis, technical knowledge of the process, internet searches, and consultation with Production and Maintenance teams as well as vendors and field experts to ensure plant performance is optimized. For improving the process, the incumbent must evaluate assigned projects for their impact on safety, environmental compliance, product quality and production rates, and then make sure each project moves forward based on priority.
Duties/Responsibilities/Qualifications:
Monitoring and troubleshooting operating conditions, production rate, quality and yield to support Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics and targets.
Proposing modifications to the process that improve plant performance and reduce costs.
Ensuring correct design and installation of new equipment.
Executing special process studies, projects, and process safety updates.
Propose and implement improvements to production procedures and record keeping.
Mentoring less-experienced engineers.
Monitor process conditions for opportunities to improve safety, productivity, quality, and cost and ensure stable operations by minimization of downtime events.
Develop a functional knowledge of the process by reviewing Training Manuals, SOP'S, P&ID'S, and other PSI information.
Interface with production supervision, technical personnel, maintenance, and operators to leverage operations and process knowledge.
Seek out innovative solutions to existing process problems.
Read the daily shift reports and keep a radio tuned to the control room to look for opportunities to help the Production Team troubleshoot and resolve process problems.
Plan, coordinate, and carry out plant trials as required.
Propose modifications to existing processes and execute the Management of Change (MOC's) process where applicable.
Update process safety information (PSI) records such as P&IDs, equipment information, safety systems, etc.
Lead problem solving exercises by utilization of root cause analysis tools and identification of corrective and preventive actions.
Lead What-if and PSSR teams and participate on HAZOP teams and PHA revalidation exercises.