Senior Process Engineer - FCC

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas, is looking for a Senior Process Engineer (Fluidized Catalytic Cracking - FCC unit).

The Senior Process Engineer is a key member of the site Process
Engineering Department as well as a critical support member of Business Teams.

The process engineering team is dedicated to being the technical leaders that drive the highest value solution for our partners.

You will be joining a technical community of 30+ chemical engineers dedicated to the troubleshooting, optimization, and design improvement of the refinery units.

Our Team

At Flint Hills Resources, your career and professional development are a top priority.

This includes a personal development plan, assigned mentors, dedicated off-site training, and tuition reimbursement programs.

The Process Engineering Department has a proven track record of upward development, leading to increasingly challenging roles across Flint Hills Resources and Koch Industries.

Flint Hills Resources is a different kind of company.

We are privately owned, we have 9/80 flexible schedules, and our compensation philosophy is based on the value you create.

Come realize your full potential and join our team.

What You Will Do
• Building and expanding technical network internally and externally to the company
• Developing value creation ideas and projects economic analysis for assigned units and technologies

• Monitoring long-term unit performance against industry benchmarks

• Supporting the building of a unit monitoring toolkit for Crude Oil Refining technologies

• Auditing unit performance reports and long-term calculations

• Reviewing and supporting benchmark studies (Solomon, PTAI studies)

• Ensuring the technical basis of projects meets business objectives

• Mentoring and supporting Production Engineers during unit troubleshooting, unit monitoring, PHAs, critical procedures, monthly Business Review meetings

• Supporting high-profile unit troubleshooting as needed

• Directing and assisting Operations for the design of experiments and process guidelines

• Owning the Process Engineer modeling programs

• Building out the technology loop model using different software such as HYSYS to drive economic decision-making in unit operations.

• Supporting other Physics-based modeling programs

• Providing turnaround program technical support and technical scoping as needed

• Contributing to process safety and environmental performance through Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) programs, Management of Changes (MOC),
investigations team member or leader

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

• Minimum of ten (10) years of refining or chemical plant process engineering experience

• Previous experience with Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units

What Will Put You Ahead

• Fifteen (15) years of refinery experience

• Five (5) years of Process engineering experience
with FCC units

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