Sustainability & Utilities Engineer

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Sustainability and Utilities Engineer to join our Ashland Specialty ingredients G.P.

business at our Hopewell, VA manufacturing facility.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Engineering function.

This position will report to the Engineering Manager

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:



* Develop and lead initiatives associated with tracking and reporting utility and energy greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), optimizing energy performance and usage, and setting cost savings goals for the site.


* Lead facility audits to identify energy conservation management.

This includes field verification to identify and document Potential energy conservation measures (ECMs), the facility's Operational and usage characteristics, and low-cost/no-cost behavioral-based opportunities.


* Develop models and tools to track utility usage and associated materials across individual units.


* Recommend energy-efficient design solutions and technology upgrades supported by accurate descriptions, measured and logged energy data, savings calculations, and cost estimates.


* Ability to provide technical leadership and project management to develop and implement integrated energy efficiency programs.


* Provide relief device sizing support for applicable equipment.


* Proficient ability to apply the concepts of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.


* Engineering, analytical, and technical writing skills, including spreadsheet analyses


* Excellent written and oral communication skills


* A general knowledge of the financial, technical, and political aspects driving the energy industries


* Support manufacturing processes as needed.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:


* Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent discipline with 8+ years of experience in utility or energy improvement roles.


* Experience in a plant manufacturing environment (chemical preferred).


* Passion in the areas of energy efficiency, alternative energy, and sustainability


* Proficient ability to apply the concepts of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.


* Must be well organized and a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision with excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)


* Must be flexible with the ability to adjust to rapid changes in work priorities and prioritize work to those chang...