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Oxy

Project Engineer

Oxy, Convent, Louisiana, United States, 70723

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Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people. Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of PVC resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem\'s market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

Responsibilities

Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and transport our products, as our highest priority.

Developing and executing capital projects to assure timely, economical and safe completion in accordance with OCC procedures.

The Project Engineer acts as the liaison with operations, overviews the entire project, coordinates the work of required engineering disciplines, provides cost control and prepares project procedures.

Supervising project engineering work including scheduling, estimating, reporting, overview of flowsheets, directing layout plans, supervise the discipline design effort which includes coordinating design functions, specifying, requisitioning and expediting project elements, approving purchase requisitions, reviewing vendor information and maintaining project documentation.

Communicating the design and technical issues to technical and non-technical functions through reports, memos, design documents and presentations in a manner that is concise, factual and effective.

Training, directing and reviewing work of support staff.

Recommending action to improve the quality of the engineering function and working on new engineering methods.

Responsible for assuring that capital, operating and engineering costs are optimized, that all work is completed as scheduled and meets all environmental, health, safety, legal and code requirements.

Responsible for handling multiple assignments with projects ranging in size from $50K to $3MM.

Qualifications

Bachelor\'s Degree Required – engineering or equivalent technical degree

7-10 years of project engineering experience.

Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently.

Must be able to develop strong relationships with project sponsors, government agencies, outside engineering, construction and equipment supply firms.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work as part of a team.

Ability to work weekends, holidays and respond to callouts on a non-routine basis.

Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. SAP experience a plus.

Employment details

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Oil and Gas

EEO notice All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

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