Process Engineer

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Are you the kind of person who 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 we bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Process Engineer to join our Ashland Specialty Ingredients G.P.

business at our Hopewell, VA, manufacturing facility.

This is a 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 behavior-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.


* 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 5+ years of experience in a utility or energy improvement role.


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


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


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


* Excellent written and oral communication skills


* Must be well organized and a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.


* Must be flexible and able to adjust to rapid changes in work priorities and prioritize work according to those changes.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:


* 8+ years of experience in a utility or energy improvement role at a multi-unit manufacturing facility.


* Experience implementing energy conservation and performance contracts.


* CEM certification

Must be authorized to work in the US.

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