Sr. Plant Engineer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop thorough scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for new and/or revamped equipment and facilities by using company's project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).
• Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
• Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.
• Serve as a highly skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
• Expected to make independent technical decisions based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
• Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
• Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
• Provide equipment repair, replacement, and metallurgical recommendations.
• Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
• Lead formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.
• Serve as a "go-to" technical resource for at least three areas or technologies to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
• Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
• Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
• Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
• Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
• Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
• Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
• Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Exemplify the company core values: Respect, Humility, Community, Teamwork, & Creativity.
• Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.
• Develop relationships and influences effective business results.
• Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.
• Must be able to handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment.
• Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.
• Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects.
• Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Ability to proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat.
• Ability to lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
• Ability to pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.
• Exhibits attitude of servant leadership.
• Has high emotional intelligence and shows a willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to speak and read English fluently.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.
• Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations and permutations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE

• BS degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Seven to sixteen years of progressive engineering related experience in Maintenance and Project Engineering in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other industrial related settings.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in application of process industry construction codes, standards, and practices.
• Knowledge of factors that affect reliability and equipment integrity/degradation/failure.
• Proficient in the use of MS Project and/or Primavera P6 scheduling software preferred but not required.
• Proficient in the use of Caesar and/or Caepipe modeling software preferred but not required.
• Proficient in the use of Aspen and/or related operations trending software preferred but not required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Professional Engineer registration preferred but not required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred but not required.