Process Engineer

We are looking for a Process Engineer to assist our client at their Freeport, TX plant. This is a hybrid position with a pay rate of up to $95 per hour.

Requirements

• Must have a working understanding of process controls and safety instrumented systems. Familiar with process engineering design and practices to effectively prioritize and self-manage. Develop project scopes and economic justification. This includes preparation of capital authorization requests.
• Can comfortably manage multiple projects with competing time and resources. Able to analyze process data and accurately.
• Skilled in the use of process engineering tools focused on the implementation of process improvements to maximize productivity and minimize manufacturing costs.
• Provide process engineering analyses, recommendations, and implementations in problem-solving and improvement efforts. This includes the development of concepts through detailed process design. Work closely manufacturing representatives to define problems and improvement ideas. Document Develop and implement charters, action plans. Work closely with capital projects to provide process design basis. Provide process expertise to plant functional groups for PHA/LOPA, MOCs, and design changes.
• Apply process design skills from conceptual and detailed projects including developing heat and material balances, specifying process equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, and vessels.
• Able to evaluate distillation towers and internals and developing and updating engineering flow diagrams (PFD and PID).
• Providing in-depth understanding and skills in the following engineering activities: equipment sizing (pumps, heat exchangers, vessels), line sizing, specifying instrumentation (flow meters and control valves), marking up PIDs as needed for the design, providing operating and control narratives, selecting equipment by evaluating vendor quotes, and assembling drawings and documentation necessary for designs by other disciplines.
• Evaluate process options and develop operation and design improvements for EHS goals.
• Effective communication with cross-functional teams in a plant environment, and corporate stakeholders.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor of Science degree, Chemical Engineering from an ABET accredited program
• Min 10 years of experience in chemical plants
• MS Office Suite