Odfjell Terminals US
Process Engineer
Location:
SCB (ADMIN OFFICES) OR OTH (TERMINAL)
Department:
TECHNICAL SERVICES
Reports To:
Engineering Manager - Technical
Employment Type:
Full-time
Seniority Level:
Mid-Senior level
Responsibilities
The role of this position and that of the Engineering Manager are similar in many aspects due to this position needing to provide backup support for the Engineering Manager, and both positions to take on tasks of the other depending on workloads.
Provide initial assessments of new Sale Opportunities.
Coordinate and update the BRT Checklist, with PMs, on Engineering efforts for Sales Opportunities.
Assist PMs on scope development and review final package before Stakeholder approval.
Participate in associated hazard reviews.
Provide updates and improvements to the Cost Estimate Template.
Participate in the BRT Technical Review Committee and capture outcomes in the BRT Checklist.
Send out emails as needed on outcomes and action items.
Lead COS management, coordinating, and reporting.
Capture the key status elements of Sales Opportunities in the BRT Checklist.
Prompt Sales for any missing or additional data to fully develop evaluations and outfittings needed for Sales Opportunities.
Provide process engineering efforts for new customer outfittings.
Maintain and keep current the marine jetty and vapor return line status tracker, and tank status update, specifically relative to all customer outfittings.
Lead marine jetty & vapor return line optimization for changing needs, and utility system changes for new customer needs.
Provide the process engineering support for the Terminal, addressing operating questions/issues, incident investigations & associated action items, new outfittings, needed utility understandings/optimizations, relating to QHSE limits.
Support PVSV capacities, control logic, creating PFDs.
Provide ad-hoc technical engineering support and guidance to departments within the US terminals organization.
Seek, evaluate, and implement industry new best practice/pragmatic solutions.
Investigate and provide recommended solutions on incidents and issues with focus on chemical process related to products currently being handled, and contemplated for future business, as well as utility systems.
Provide project support in the form of detailed scope and design reviews, system installation inspections, and commissioning services.
Work to reduce incidents and improve Engineering productivity and quality.
Promote and encourage good ideas.
Assist with Engineering interviewing and training efforts.
Essential Functions
Support, coordinate, and engineer BRT/Sale Opportunity efforts.
Provide process & technical engineering support and guidance to departments within the US terminals organization.
Assist Operations, Maintenance, other engineers, managers, and colleagues with finding process & technical solutions to identified issues.
Act as an internal resource to the project engineering group and make recommendations on system development, improvements, optimization, or support efforts.
Review as needed, the design and engineering work performed by consultants and contractors.
Develop operating methodologies to ensure safe start, run, and shutdown of tank and utility systems.
Ensure utility systems are efficient, operating at peak performance with minimal energy waste.
Serve as an internal resource on all matters related to chemicals and utilities to other engineers within the group on project related matters.
Other Functions
In case of absence: Engineering Manager to fill in or support, providing updates to the Sales Opportunities the PMs are developing.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
BS degree in chemical engineering, or related engineering field.
10+ years of experience in logistics and process and/or utility engineering at a chemical terminal, chemical plant, refinery or multi‑discipline engineering firm.
Comfortable performing engineering with spreadsheets and with little or no support, limited historical/field data, and willing to endorse one’s final design.
Full facility experience with comprehensive understanding of logistics, utility infrastructure, and coordination with multiple departments, specifically Operations, Maintenance, and QHSE.
Experience with a wide range of chemicals and all their properties; including reactive, physical, health, hygiene, fire & safety.
Experienced and comfortable at conducting multiple projects at the same time, wearing multiple hats, and executing assignments with minimal direction and oversight.
Experienced and effective at leading or managing teams.
Solid communication capabilities, specifically the ability to provide executive summaries on complex and technical topics.
Provide/show a portfolio demonstrating all of the above.
Physical/Mental Requirements Occasionally: standing, climbing stairs to top of tanks at terminal, bending over, reaching overhead, crouching, kneeling, balancing, pushing or pulling, grasping, lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds, touching, discriminating colors.
Frequently: sitting, walking, walking in or out of terminal and through turnstile, repetitive use of hands/arms, lifting or carrying up to 10 pounds, eye/hand coordination, talking, keyboarding/typing, thinking analytically, producing unique or creative solutions to problems, receiving and transmitting information accurately using oral and written communications, concentrating on tasks, remembering details, making decisions, adjusting to changes, examining/observing details, using math/calculations, using English language correctly.
Continuously: hearing, smelling, seeing, maintaining stamina during the work day, understanding and drawing conclusions from information and data, maintaining attention span during the work day.
Competencies
Formulating Strategy and Concepts:
Works strategically to realize organizational goals; sets and develops strategies; takes account of a wide range of issues across, and related to, the organization.
Planning and Organizing:
Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance; identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.
Relating and Networking:
Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; relates well to people at all levels; knows how to deal with conflicts.
Deciding and Initiating Action:
Makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks; takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes.
Analyzing:
Analyzes numerical data; breaks them into component parts, patterns and relationships; probes for greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgments; arrives at workable solutions; demonstrates understanding of larger system context.
Working Conditions Occasionally: working irregular hours or on call, wearing PPE, working outside and in hot/cold temperatures, working around electrical hazards, falling hazards, heavy machinery, sharp objects/tools, heights, excessive noise exposure, hot temp devices, vibration; working in difficult interpersonal situations, travelling domestically, travelling locally between two Houston offices.
Frequently: working around exposure to fumes, gases, odors, dirt, dust, grease, oil, and mud; maintaining composure and professionalism under emotional distress.
Continuously: working in close proximity/potential exposure to hazardous chemicals, maintaining TWIC card, performing multiple tasks at the same time, maintaining high level of energy and productivity through the work day or shift.
Tools and Equipment Utilized
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, SAP
Compliance Statement This position is part of an Equal Employment Opportunity affirming the need for diversity and accommodate all qualified applicants regardless of background.
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SCB (ADMIN OFFICES) OR OTH (TERMINAL)
Department:
TECHNICAL SERVICES
Reports To:
Engineering Manager - Technical
Employment Type:
Full-time
Seniority Level:
Mid-Senior level
Responsibilities
The role of this position and that of the Engineering Manager are similar in many aspects due to this position needing to provide backup support for the Engineering Manager, and both positions to take on tasks of the other depending on workloads.
Provide initial assessments of new Sale Opportunities.
Coordinate and update the BRT Checklist, with PMs, on Engineering efforts for Sales Opportunities.
Assist PMs on scope development and review final package before Stakeholder approval.
Participate in associated hazard reviews.
Provide updates and improvements to the Cost Estimate Template.
Participate in the BRT Technical Review Committee and capture outcomes in the BRT Checklist.
Send out emails as needed on outcomes and action items.
Lead COS management, coordinating, and reporting.
Capture the key status elements of Sales Opportunities in the BRT Checklist.
Prompt Sales for any missing or additional data to fully develop evaluations and outfittings needed for Sales Opportunities.
Provide process engineering efforts for new customer outfittings.
Maintain and keep current the marine jetty and vapor return line status tracker, and tank status update, specifically relative to all customer outfittings.
Lead marine jetty & vapor return line optimization for changing needs, and utility system changes for new customer needs.
Provide the process engineering support for the Terminal, addressing operating questions/issues, incident investigations & associated action items, new outfittings, needed utility understandings/optimizations, relating to QHSE limits.
Support PVSV capacities, control logic, creating PFDs.
Provide ad-hoc technical engineering support and guidance to departments within the US terminals organization.
Seek, evaluate, and implement industry new best practice/pragmatic solutions.
Investigate and provide recommended solutions on incidents and issues with focus on chemical process related to products currently being handled, and contemplated for future business, as well as utility systems.
Provide project support in the form of detailed scope and design reviews, system installation inspections, and commissioning services.
Work to reduce incidents and improve Engineering productivity and quality.
Promote and encourage good ideas.
Assist with Engineering interviewing and training efforts.
Essential Functions
Support, coordinate, and engineer BRT/Sale Opportunity efforts.
Provide process & technical engineering support and guidance to departments within the US terminals organization.
Assist Operations, Maintenance, other engineers, managers, and colleagues with finding process & technical solutions to identified issues.
Act as an internal resource to the project engineering group and make recommendations on system development, improvements, optimization, or support efforts.
Review as needed, the design and engineering work performed by consultants and contractors.
Develop operating methodologies to ensure safe start, run, and shutdown of tank and utility systems.
Ensure utility systems are efficient, operating at peak performance with minimal energy waste.
Serve as an internal resource on all matters related to chemicals and utilities to other engineers within the group on project related matters.
Other Functions
In case of absence: Engineering Manager to fill in or support, providing updates to the Sales Opportunities the PMs are developing.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
BS degree in chemical engineering, or related engineering field.
10+ years of experience in logistics and process and/or utility engineering at a chemical terminal, chemical plant, refinery or multi‑discipline engineering firm.
Comfortable performing engineering with spreadsheets and with little or no support, limited historical/field data, and willing to endorse one’s final design.
Full facility experience with comprehensive understanding of logistics, utility infrastructure, and coordination with multiple departments, specifically Operations, Maintenance, and QHSE.
Experience with a wide range of chemicals and all their properties; including reactive, physical, health, hygiene, fire & safety.
Experienced and comfortable at conducting multiple projects at the same time, wearing multiple hats, and executing assignments with minimal direction and oversight.
Experienced and effective at leading or managing teams.
Solid communication capabilities, specifically the ability to provide executive summaries on complex and technical topics.
Provide/show a portfolio demonstrating all of the above.
Physical/Mental Requirements Occasionally: standing, climbing stairs to top of tanks at terminal, bending over, reaching overhead, crouching, kneeling, balancing, pushing or pulling, grasping, lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds, touching, discriminating colors.
Frequently: sitting, walking, walking in or out of terminal and through turnstile, repetitive use of hands/arms, lifting or carrying up to 10 pounds, eye/hand coordination, talking, keyboarding/typing, thinking analytically, producing unique or creative solutions to problems, receiving and transmitting information accurately using oral and written communications, concentrating on tasks, remembering details, making decisions, adjusting to changes, examining/observing details, using math/calculations, using English language correctly.
Continuously: hearing, smelling, seeing, maintaining stamina during the work day, understanding and drawing conclusions from information and data, maintaining attention span during the work day.
Competencies
Formulating Strategy and Concepts:
Works strategically to realize organizational goals; sets and develops strategies; takes account of a wide range of issues across, and related to, the organization.
Planning and Organizing:
Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance; identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.
Relating and Networking:
Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff; builds wide and effective networks of contacts; relates well to people at all levels; knows how to deal with conflicts.
Deciding and Initiating Action:
Makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks; takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes.
Analyzing:
Analyzes numerical data; breaks them into component parts, patterns and relationships; probes for greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgments; arrives at workable solutions; demonstrates understanding of larger system context.
Working Conditions Occasionally: working irregular hours or on call, wearing PPE, working outside and in hot/cold temperatures, working around electrical hazards, falling hazards, heavy machinery, sharp objects/tools, heights, excessive noise exposure, hot temp devices, vibration; working in difficult interpersonal situations, travelling domestically, travelling locally between two Houston offices.
Frequently: working around exposure to fumes, gases, odors, dirt, dust, grease, oil, and mud; maintaining composure and professionalism under emotional distress.
Continuously: working in close proximity/potential exposure to hazardous chemicals, maintaining TWIC card, performing multiple tasks at the same time, maintaining high level of energy and productivity through the work day or shift.
Tools and Equipment Utilized
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, SAP
Compliance Statement This position is part of an Equal Employment Opportunity affirming the need for diversity and accommodate all qualified applicants regardless of background.
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