Location: Freeport, TX

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing

Context: Our client, a global chemical company, is seeking a Production & Maintenance Engineer to oversee plant operations as well as 3rd party operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Optimize plant operations, resolve plant problems, and enable safe, reliable, and efficient production of quality specialty copolymers.
• Can act as owner representative in front of the 3rd party company who is operating and maintaining the plant.
• Actively work to maximize plant margin including setting up metrics and management systems.
• Monitor plant performance on daily basis.
• Respond urgently to plant issues and emergencies. Act as a unit technical expert during unplanned events and drive implementation of effective corrective and preventative actions in cooperation with 3rd party.
• Participate in the preparation, execution, commissioning, start-up and closure of planned turnarounds and downtime from owner perspective.
• Troubleshoot plant issues in normal operations, start-up, shutdowns, and planned turnarounds.
• Diagnose and document root causes of asset utilization losses in the facility.
• Maintain, own, and review short, medium, and long term KPIs/ trends to ensure optimum performance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree within Chemical or Mechanical Engineering (highly preferred).
• 5 years’ experience in operations, maintenance and/or reliability in Polyethylene or Plastic plants, and more specifically in Low Density Polymers or Co-Polymers with High Pressure Technology.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to coach and/or support 3rd party operations personnel, team members for safety, quality, maintenance reliability, supply chain (production planning), engineering & improvement and Technology center.
• Ability to Act as a unit technical expert during unplanned events and drive implementation of effective corrective and preventative actions in cooperation with 3rd party.