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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide on demand mechanical engineering support for operations, maintenance, and turnaround groups.
- Serve as a skilled troubleshooter while multi-tasking between tactical and strategic issues.
- Develop technical solutions independently based on knowledge of cost benefit analysis, budget impact, and refinery performance impact of technical decisions.
- Prepare specifications, drawings, bid packages, quotation analysis and other applicable documents for purchase, construction and/or repair of refinery equipment and facilities.
- Serve as a "go-to" technical resource for assigned area or technology to others in Engineering Services, Operations, and Maintenance.
- Application of engineering principles to solve equipment and system reliability issues.
- Provide Project Engineering and Management activities in support of new construction and revamp projects.
- Develop detailed scopes of work, engineering and construction schedules, and cost estimates for small-medium scale projects (<$1MM) by using company's project methodology (FEL-1, 2, or 3 deliverables).
- Provide equipment repair, replacement and metallurgical recommendations.
- Participate in formal root cause analysis discussions to ensure effective solutions and prevent recurrence.
- Stay abreast of current technologies and equipment for application within the refinery.
- Perform fitness for service evaluations of refinery equipment; apply life extension analysis and techniques.
- Assist in auditing of Maintenance and Operations practices to improve reliability and operability of refinery process equipment.
- Coordinate services of engineering and other consultants as required.
- Assist in the development and upkeep of company engineering standards, specifications, and published lessons learned.
- Provide engineering, coordination and management support for unit Shutdowns and Turnarounds.
- Assist in identification, development and implementation of training programs as needed for others in the engineering, maintenance, and operations departments.
- Communicate with appropriate personnel as necessary for safe and efficient performance of operations, maintenance and construction activities.
- Serve as On-Call representative for the Plant Engineering Group per rotational assignment.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Supervise contract personnel during plant shutdowns, construction projects, etc.
- Lead cross-functional teams of company and contract employees as required.
- Mentor cooperative education students and take interest in their work assignments during their development in the program.
- Supervise mechanical engineering cooperative education student on a rotational basis to aid in the development of the cooperative education student by providing meaningful work assignments.
- Provide vacation relief for various departmental positions as required.
Interpersonal Skills
- Seeks win/win outcomes, has a positive attitude and an objective mindset, strong work ethic, takes initiative, thinks of new ideas and approaches.
- Exemplify the company core values: Commitment to Excellence, Honesty, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Teamwork, Creativity, Humility and Community-Centric.
- Develop relationships and influences effective business results.
- Display willingness to learn, make continuous improvement and be coachable.
- Must be able to handle complex, high-pressure situations and be adaptable to a changing work environment.
- Confident when making presentations, facilitating project team meetings, leading troubleshooting discussions, PSSRs, large technical meetings, etc.
- Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks based on EHS and business needs of the refinery, and consistently meet and/or deadlines for assigned tasks or projects.
- Recognized as a change agent on technical issues.
Leadership Skills
- Ability to proactively recognize opportunities and/or threats to the company, pull a team together and develop and execute an action plan to capitalize on the opportunity and/or mitigate the threat.
- Ability to lead project and technical teams with confidence and drives for results to meet and/or exceed the expectations of stakeholders.
- Ability to pull together teams across multiple departments and lead to in such a way to drive for results.
- Exhibits attitude of servant leadership.
- Has high emotional intelligence and shows a willingness to improve upon current emotional intelligence.
Language Skills
- Ability to speak and read English fluently.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical information in such a way that others can easily understand said information to make business decisions.
- Utilizes effective communication techniques to train and interact with operators, managers and executives to promote business opportunities and economics.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, common scientific and technical/professional journals, technical procedures, governmental regulations and detailed design and/or construction drawings.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
Education and Experience
- B.S. degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering or equivalent.
- Three to six years in a Petroleum Refinery, Chemical Plant, and/or Pulp and Paper Mill or other related industrial experience.
- Proficient in use of personal computers and office software applications.
- Knowledge in P6 or Microsoft Project is a plus.
Mathematical Skills
- Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
- Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
Reasoning Ability
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Additional Information
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