Description :
Texas Petrochemicals (TPC) is a premier chemical company, headquartered in Houston with $2 billion in annual sales. TPC is a growing company that provides quality C4 chemical products and services to both local and global industry companies. TPC has manufacturing facilities in the industrial corridor adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel, operations in Baytown and Port Neches, Texas and a product terminal in Lake Charles, Louisiana. TPC has the largest butadiene and butene -1 extraction capacity in North America. In addition, the Company is one of North America's largest producers of isobutylene and derivatives of isobutylene such as polyisobutylene, diisobutylene and isobutylene concentrate. TPC products are widely used as chemical building blocks for synthetic rubber, nylon carpets, adhesives, catalysts and additives used in high-performance polymers. TPC offers excellent benefits, incentive plans, career growth and opportunities for advancement. For more information, please visit us at [link removed]
The Process Engineer has the responsibility, accountability and authority to:
Provide process engineering support to multiple areas of the plant in a manner that is safe and environmentally compliant.
Provide process engineering support where other lower level engineers have not succeeded.
Required Skills:
Become the process expert plantwide, particularly in troubleshooting tough problems.
Display a well developed understanding of process engineering including: interpreting system pressure drops, pump analysis, control valve sizing, distillation splits, heat exchanger design, reaction concepts and equipment protection design.
Lead PHA's, PSSR's, incident investigations and unit troubleshooting.
Complete all safety and environmental training required of Staff process engineers.
Initiate, review, approve MOC's.
Define for Commercial the variable costs plantwide.
Complete project scopes to hand off to capital for estimating. This includes P&ID markup, PFD development, process description and simulation heat & material balances.
Initiate AFE's and lead followthrough on driving that AFE to completion.
Knowledge of entire plant trains and impacts of proposed changes on other areas of the plant.
Experience Required:
Participation in at least one PHA annually.
Proof of understanding of the above mentioned process engineering concepts.
Multiple annual specific instances of unit troubleshooting that resulted in a successful solution, particularly on problems that others have been unsuccesful at solving.
2-3 annual minor capital projects as well as 1-2 major capital projects scoped. This can include safety & environmental projects as well as operating cost / production yield improvement projects.
Performance of returning 2 times annual salary plus benefits from projects and implemented solutions. Since AFE completion is determined by the capital group's performance, the return can be counted once the project is at the AFE approval stage. If the project is completed, an audit of the project success is required.
Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering
10+ years of experience, which should include at least 7 years of process engineering experience.
Chemical and/or refining background is required.
Qualified candidates should apply at:
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Texas Petrochemicals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Principals Only - No Recruiters Please.