ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Performs process studies to identify opportunities to improve manufacturing and energy efficiency
- Presents results to management both verbally and in written reports
- Engineering
- Executes capital projects managing schedule, scope and costs.
- Manages project finances, with a strong control of scope, schedule deviation
- Reports on capital projects to management and senior management regarding current activities and forecast
- Develops capital investments projects following the appropriate stage gate methodology
- Diagnoses process deficiencies, and create design improvements
- Performs process modeling studies to identify improvement opportunities
- Develops with the stake holders clear project premises, budgets scopes and detailed schedules
- Evaluates process schemes from operating data as needed
- Prepares process datasheets for equipment and instrumentation
- Updates and maintains documentation such as material balances, P&IDs and automation functional descriptions.
QUALIFICATIONS
Basic/Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical Preferred)
- Strong preference for manufacturing plant-based work environment
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in project-based engineering with a focus on capital project execution
- Excellent understanding and ability to apply fundamentals of heat transfer, fluid transport and reaction chemistry
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Track record of successfully meeting schedule deadlines
- Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time to US and foreign destinations.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the US, now and in the future, without sponsorship
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with process simulation software applications such as Aspen or ChemCAD
- Proficiency with scheduling software such as MS Project
- Demonstrated ability for development of reports for and presentations to management.
- Demonstrated interpersonal/teambuilding skills
