Process Engineer - Ethyl Benzene and Styrene Monomer Units (EBSM)

The Process Engineer – Ethyl Benzene and Styrene Monomer Units (EBSM) (Contact Engineer - EBSM internally) is responsible for providing daily technical process engineering support and guidance to ensure their process units are operated in a safe, environmentally sound, reliable and profitable manner in accordance with the license to operate and the defined safe operating envelope. The Contact Engineer works closely with the Production Specialist in their assigned unit on resolving unit issues and identifying opportunities.

Time Horizon: The Contact Engineer focuses primarily within a 90-day outlook supporting medium to long term unit issues and opportunities. A portion of a Contact Engineer’s time will be spent on supporting the 24/7 shift operation to resolve short term immediate threats to the business plan.

What you’ll be doing

• Daily activities of reviewing shift logs and shift plan in preparation for the Technical Support Huddle
• Lead the weekly alarm meetings – supports alarm management activities
• Owner of proactive technical monitoring for the designated process unit against the safe operating envelope and License to Operate (LTO) limits for the process unit and documents the performance through defined monthly and quarterly KPI reports.
• Works with the designated Contact Engineers (CEs) and Technical Senior Engineer (TSE) to implement and utilize the current adopted monitoring standard for the site. This activity feeds into multiple core operations, maintenance, and assurance-based work processes and deliverables.
• Provides monthly, quarterly and annual input for production accounting and regulatory reporting (i.e. yield reporting, flaring, chemical costs, etc)
• Ownership of the alarm database for the units
• Identify and communicate to the technical, production and maintenance communities any threats to process safety and license to operate limits as well as threats to meeting the current production plan, annual business plan, turnaround cycle, equipment plans or maintenance plans.
• Utilizes fact-based root cause analysis to investigate, define and troubleshoot threats.
• Assists as appropriate in ensuring solutions to problems are acceptable from a technical integrity point of view.
• Identify opportunities to improve unit safety, environmental performance, reliability and profitability and develop those opportunities as resources allow or escalate awareness of the opportunity and seek additional resources as appropriate.
• Provides process engineering support for operating problems or seek pro