Senior Process Engineer (Crudes)

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources in Corpus Christi, Texas is looking for a Senior Process Engineer (Crudes).

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 technology

• 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 seven (7) years of refining process
engineering experience

• Previous experience with crude, vacuum distillation, and
light end units

What Will Put You Ahead

• Ten (10) years of refinery experience

• Five (5) + years of Process Engineering experience in
crude units

• Experience as a Process Engineer or Project Engineer
leadin...