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.

Qualifications

Qualifications

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 mechanical troubleshooting and optimization activities is preferred.

- Proficiency in basic Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) is required.

- Working knowledge of reliability improvement techniques such as predictive and preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, risk-based inspections, and total productive maintenance is preferred.

- Experience with Process Modeling software, such as Hysys, is preferred.

- Must show strong initiative, be self-motivated, work with minimal supervision. Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and in writing, and be detailed oriented with the ability to handle fast-paced projects with constantly changing priorities and scope.

- Must be proficient in balancing multiple priorities and activities and be able to meet deadlines in a timely and accurate manner.

- Must demonstrate a proven track record of working in a team environment, possess a strong technical/problem solving aptitude and be data driven.

- Ability to solve complex problems by identifying and enrolling appropriate resources is required.

- Ability to quickly absorb the key deliverables and not get mired in detail is required.

- Knowledge of DCS and advanced process control systems is preferred.

Primary Location: USA-Texas-Vidor

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Unposting Date: Ongoing

Organization: Operations

Job: Plant/Terminal Operations

Job Level: Individual Contributor