Senior Process Engineer - Chemicals

Your Job

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

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.

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 Chemical technologies (Naphtha Reforming, Xylene Extraction, Xylene Separation, Cumene, Heavy Aromatic Solvents)


* 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 Naphtha Reforming, Xylene Extraction, Parex, Xylene Isomerization, Cumene, units

What Will Put You Ahead


* Fifteen (15) years of refinery experience


* Five (5) + years of Process Engineering experience with Chemicals units


* Experience as a Process Engineer or Project Engineer leading projects in an oil refinery
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