Process Engineer

Chemical engineer with atleast 8 years of chemical industry experience preferred.

Our client is a specialty chemical company manufacturing and marketing specialty chemicals.

We're looking for an experienced
Process Engineer/Sr Process Engineer
to join our client's team at their
manufacturing site located near New Orleans, LA.

The
Process Engineer
will be responsible for providing technical support to optimize plant operations, increase capacity, reduce cycle times, improve utility usage, improve yields, and cost reduction at our client's Taft manufacturing site, located near New Orleans, Louisiana.

Job Scope:

• Provide technical support to optimize plant operations, increase capacity, reduce cycle times, improve utility usage, improve yields, and reduce costs.
• Complete engineering projects by leading, organizing, developing, and controlling various project elements including designing, planning, scheduling, and costing.
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, and other Engineering Team members to support process design and implementation of capital and improvement projects.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize operating units to drive process and product improvements and identify, recommend, and implement strategic projects to improve unit performance.
• Serve as a process technology expert and liaison between project engineers, plant maintenance, and operations personnel and incorporate process safety, environmental soundness and reliable operations principles and standards in projects and tasks.

Candidate Profile:

• BS in Chemical Engineering, with experience in Chemical, Petrochemical, or Refining industries as a process, production, project engineer or some combination of.
• Solid understanding of unit operations in both batch and continuous chemical plant processes
• Manufacturing equipment knowledge including reactors, heat exchangers, piping, and pumps and pumping systems, boilers, cooling systems and technical drawing interpretations.
• Strong knowledge of process technology and equipment, process modeling and statistical process control, basic engineering principles and regulatory compliance
• Prior experience with MOC and PHA processes, PFD's, P&ID's, developing process schematics
• Experience with leading, managing and executing capital projects at all phases from start of project definition to start up and commissioning.
• Knowledge and exposure to yield analysis and measuring production efficiencies
• Basic engineering principles and regulatory compliance knowledge
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must have excellent technical, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Computer literacy, specifically MS Excel, and project management software