Plant Engineer

Job Summary

The Plant Engineer; known internally as an Operations Supervisor; is responsible for supporting the continuous operation of the Chemical Plant. This engineer will coordinate activities of the Operations group to ensure the most efficient, effective, and safe manufacture of quality products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure that safety practices implemented are consistently followed by employees and subcontractors when works are carried out.
• Monitor and Update daily SAP data.
• Manage and execute plants production planning. (Daily /weekly MRP).
• Manage and ensure any maintenance of system defects and process troubleshooting to sustain higher plant performance reliability. Follow-up with any maintenance jobs and documentation/SAP/E-maintenance.
• Manage and ensure sufficient resources are scheduled and available to run daily process
• Manage and plan operations team career development. Cross-training and promoting from within. Proactively, consistently and directly address issues of poor or inadequate performance.
• Working with others, schedules additional clean up technicians to ensure plant cleanliness and safe conditions.
• Work to ensure the plant is operated in a safe, clean, most efficient, higher reliability and cost efficient manner.
• To manage and ensure plant is operated within KPI target (i.e.: production cost, Maintain Cost, Chemical usage)
• To ensure products produced meet specification, maximize yield and system throughput is maximized.
• Work with all teams within the organization to strive to a culture with a goal of zero defects.
• Maintain a culture fostering teamwork; providing honest and constructive feedback professionally to others.
• Implements or supports various change management activities (e.g., communications, education, team development, coaching and alerts management to necessary employee warnings and counseling when needed.
• Support new product development initiative
• To ensure operators and technicians follow established guidelines when operating systems.
• To ensure HACCP Program (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point), SQF are fully executed and implemented by operations and each operator.
• Prepare and analyze operation reports.

REQUIREMENTS

• BS Engineering is required (Chemical Engineering preferred, BSME will also be considered)
• Must understand Process Piping based Systems, Process Equipment, heat transfer, fluid flow, pumping, piping, and instrumentation
• Understanding of P&ID’s and schematics.
• Previous experience with continuous chemical processing; within a high hazard environment is preferred
• Strong Mechanical Aptitude
• Hands on background with the ability to build rapport with blue-collar workforceis extremely important.
• GMP knowledge preferred
• Able to obtain TWIC certification.