Engineer, Operations (Vidor, TX)

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals.

Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.

The partnership's assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

The Operations Engineer will support day-to-day operations with responsibilities including troubleshooting, process optimization and improvement, and improving product quality.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:


* Organize, lead, and participate in improvement initiatives, projects, and process optimization teams to deliver specific, focused, time bound improvement objectives.


* Monitor operations on a daily/weekly basis, reviewing KPI's, operating logs, Distributed Control System (DCS) trends, quality results, and other sources of data to ensure reliable, consistent, and cost-effective operations.


* Intervene where appropriate to identify and resolve operating issues.


* Design and implementation of new Neches River Terminal processes and/or equipment upgrades.


* Manage capital project assignments as necessary to support Neches River Terminal improvements.


* Maintain the calculation basis for unit's permits and prepare emission event calculations.


* Provide production and process optimization, troubleshooting, data analysis, and technical support to the operations organization.


* Develop process standards, operating procedures, diagrams, training materials, and job aids as required to properly document, teach, and manage site operations.


* Implement, monitor, and maintain reliability improvement techniques such as predictive and preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, and risk based inspection.


* Track variable costs and look for ways to reduce those costs via process optimization.


* Ensure compliance with all steps of OSHA 1910.119 / Process Safety Management and DOT regulations.


* Satisfactorily perform other duties as assigned.

The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:


* A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering is required..


* A minimum of (3) years of experience in a chemical plant environment, or related industry is required.


* A minimum of (3) years of experience with production, process, or me...