Technical Engineering Leader

Position Summary: The Technical Engineering Leader is responsible for driving continuous improvements in processes and production.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Driving sustained improvements in safety, attainment, yield, quality, and cost through daily production support, non-capital process optimizations and improvements and process engineering for capital upgrades
• Manage OSHA-PSM elements including management of change, pre-startup safety review, standard operating procedures, incident investigation, and process hazards analysis
• Manage production optimization and process troubleshooting
• Process design of capital improvements
• Responsible for administrative management of 2 direct reports.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical or mechanical engineering; mechanical engineering preferred.
• Six Sigma and/or Lean certification preferred
• 5+ years of experience in production, process and/or manufacturing engineering within the chemical, petroleum, or polymer industrial manufacturing environments
•  Experience in engineering or manufacturing leadership preferred

Additional Qualifications:

• Proven history of delivering productivity through non-capital improvements and capital projects of all sizes
• Deep experience in the fundamentals of production optimization and process design for a broad range of unit operations including reaction, distillation, refrigeration, and fired heaters, heat integration
• Strong process and mechanical troubleshooting experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills enterprise
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with hourly and salaried coworkers at all levels of an organization
• Demonstrated leadership in behavioral safety and environmental Title V compliance
• Strong computer skills, including process monitoring and process simulation and design.

The base salary range for this role is $100,000 to $140,000 annually.