Channelview, TX

LyondellBasell




Basic Function



LyondellBasell is staffing for an Olefins Production Engineer at the Channelview, TX Manufacturing Complex, located 18 miles from downtown Houston. Our 4,000-acre Channelview Complex consists of two Olefins units in the north side of the facility that manufacture ethylene, propylene, butadiene and benzene. The south side facility uses many of these products to produce propylene oxide, styrene monomer and other derivatives.

This role will provide daily monitoring, troubleshooting and optimization of an operating area to ensure safe, environmentally compliant, reliable operation, while maximizing on stream time and profitability.




Roles & Responsibilities

• Identify, recommend, document, and implement initiatives to improve unit performance, with the goal to increase production or lower energy usage, at the lowest cost
• Works with Operations and other technical groups to address production constraints
• Develops and communicates unit performance and improvement strategies to stakeholders
• Supports gap closure and continuous improvement activities by providing engineering bases and justification for new projects in the 5-year capital long-range plan, as well as participating in capital, expense, and special project scope development, execution, and support.
• Determines causes of deviations in quality, capacity, yield, and energy consumption
• Evaluation of off-spec feedstock and opportunity feeds
• Leads Management of Change process
• Provides technical expertise for PHAs, PSVs, Safety System Disablement, and other Process Safety activities in the area
• Provides unit support during troubleshooting, turnarounds, startups, shutdowns, catalyst changes, and other non-routing unit activities
• Provides engineering calculations to quantity environmental releases

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering
• 5 or more years of Production/Process experience in refining or petrochemical plants
• Technical understanding of unit processes and application of unit operations principals such as mass and energy balances, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, mass and heat transfer and distillation
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and collaborate with others to solve problems
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Competencies



Builds effective teams


Collaborates


Cultivates innovation


Customer focus


Demonstrates courage


Drives results


Ensures accountability


Instills trust and exemplifies integrity


LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) is one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world. Driven by its employees around the globe, LyondellBasell produces materials and products that are key to advancing solutions to modern challenges like enhancing food safety through lightweight and flexible packaging, protecting the purity of water supplies through stronger and more versatile pipes, improving the safety, comfort and fuel efficiency of many of the cars and trucks on the road, and ensuring the safe and effective functionality in electronics and appliances. LyondellBasell sells products into more than 100 countries and is the world's largest producer of polypropylene compounds and the largest licensor of polyolefin technologies. In 2022, LyondellBasell was named to Fortune Magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for the fifth consecutive year.


We have the potential - and responsibility - to use this scale and reach to make a positive impact across our value chains. That's why we are working to make meaningful progress to address some of the world's most pressing challenges such as reducing plastic waste in the environment, helping to mitigate climate change and contributing to a thriving society for our employees, the communities where we operate and the people who depend on our products. To learn more, click here.



Nearest Major Market: Houston