Brief Job Description :

Develop technical knowledge of the processes practiced at this location to become a plant resource for continuous improvement for the manufacture of Organotin compounds for Advastab and Thermolite PVC stabilizers, Fascat Catalyst and glass coatings.

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Scoping capital and expense projects to meet operations improvement goals.
• Managing small to medium capital projects (typically
• Finding solutions for low-cost operations and options for increased production rates
• Assisting operations with root cause analysis, including troubleshooting and making recommendations to resolve plant process issues
• Data acquisition and evaluation from data historian
• Evaluating existing and new processes for safety impact
• Facilitating Process Hazard Analysis
• Control System (Allen Bradley) troubleshooting and programming.
• Providing material and energy balances
• Process development for new products; taking lab scale to pilot plant scale and defining commercial plant scale.
• Pilot plant planning and testing to improve existing products as well as to support small scale commercial production.
• Developing design basis for and sizing new equipment such as heat exchangers, dryers, reactors etc.
• Modeling involving distillation, heat transfer, reaction, and other common chemical engineering unit operations.
• Pressure relief design basis
• Conducting feasibility analysis including cost estimates for manufacturing new products
• Networking to obtain industry best practices.
• Teamwork and good communication with peers to reach goals with all involved.
• Use of process modeling tools
• Equipment design tools

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• PHA leader experience
• Use of engineering tools for pressure drop calculations, developing heat and material balances, sizing equipment such as pumps and heat exchangers