Engineering Advisor

Candidate Profile

Join our dynamic US Refining & Chemicals Process Support Engineering Team as a Process Support Engineering Advisor at our Port Arthur Platform

What does joining the Process Support Engineering team look like? It's about working with a team to maintain safe and reliable process unit operations at the Port Arthur Platform. It requires a short-term and long-term focus. It's interacting with stakeholders and ensuring their needs are met and exceeded. It's being a part of a great team and having the opportunity to make an impact.

What does it take to be an Process Support Engineer? It is about leadership, coordination, teamwork, and execution. It is having extensive knowledge in process support and working with stakeholders to ensure that the platform is maintained and functioning optimally.

Read on for more, and don't hesitate to apply today

• Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering and 10+ years experience preferably in petroleum refining as a process technical service, or design engineer
• Chemical Engineering knowledge: heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid operations, heat/material balances, chemistry, physics, economic fundamentals. Basic chemical engineering fundamentals
• Computer knowledge: use of spreadsheets (i.e. Excel), DCS control data historians (i.e. PI Process book), process simulation software (i.e. Pro2 Hysim) helpful, and be able to understand new systems as they come (i.e. SAP)
• Good problem solving skills, Good physical fitness required for access on/into towers, vessels, and other equipment
• Work nights during turnarounds or other special circumstances where 24-hour technical coverage is needed.
• Interpersonal and communication skills required for interaction with every group in the refinery at one time or another and with vendors.

Activities

• Daily Monitoring- (Ensure compliance with Environmental permits, ensure reliable operation and on-spec product, and search for problems that could prevent the ability to maintain capacity). Support environmental department (emissions calculations)
• Troubleshooting- (pressure surveys, temperature surveys, identifying and correcting potential problems, determining need and frequency of exchanger cleaning and means of cleaning (during shut down or partial shut down), economic impact of these shut downs and technical support for operating conditions during partial shut down).
• Engineering calculations- (Size orifice plates, size control valves, size relief valves, size restriction orifices, calculate pressure drops, size piping for small projects, perform heat/material balances, size/rate heat exchangers, calculate fluid properties, determine system volumes/residence times)
• Mass/volume balance- (Update spreadsheet for material balances, ensure orifice calculations reflect current operating conditions and are otherwise correct, calibrate or rearrange meters if necessary, and provide recommendations to correct mass/volume balance discrepancies.)
• Make recommendations to Operations on: following safe work practices while maintaining quality, complying with environmental permits, ensuring reliable operation, making on-spec product, maintaining capacity, and increasing profitability.
• Support turnaround/maintenance activities such as: Catalyst unloading/loading supervision, chemcial cleaning supervision, vessel inspection, shutdown/startup coverage, including revision/development of operating procedures, sample procurement, and recommendations for maintenance (exchanger cleaning, screen cleaning, ect.)
• Additional Responsibilities: Evaluate economics to determine profitable modes of unit operation, Lead/participate in Process Hazards Analyses, Define and execute small (non-capital) projects, Assist groups with captial project design and installation
• Monitor unit catalyst performance and issue catalyst life projections; Evalute new proposed catalsyt systems; recommend and intitiate procurement process for new catalsyt
• Maintain working material balances for delegated operting units
• Ensure that refinery quality and safety initiatives are carried out in daily activities

Context & Environment

• Technical process support of delegated units
• Potential work around: high heat, hazardous chemicals, and caustic, heavy noise
• Respond to unit upsets and offer recommendations during off hours and holidays

Additional Information

TotalEnergies celebrates diversity and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected under applicable federal, state or local law. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

TotalEnergies believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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Located in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, Port Arthur is one of TotalEnergies' biggest refining and petrochemicals platforms, employing nearly 650 TotalEnergies employees. It is the largest TotalEnergies facility in the United States.

The city of Port Arthur is located on the shores of Lake Sabine with wetlands and Gulf beaches at its southern tip. There's a strong sense of community and true southern hospitality. For adventure further afield, the Cajun culture of Louisiana is at your doorstep, and being not far from Houston, both local and international travel is only a stone's throw away.

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