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Process Operator

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Pasadena, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/28/2025
You may not realize it, but you’ve likely used a product today made possible by the plastics and chemicals manufactured by Chevron Phillips Chemical. From medical supplies and electronics to food packaging and cosmetics, we create the building blocks for more than 70,000 consumer and industrial products.

Even as a global company with 5,000 employees, we maintain a “small company feel” and uphold a culture of respect, diversity, and inclusion. Ask any Chevron Phillips Chemical employee what they like best about their job, and universally, the answer is “the people I work with!” We value work-life balance, and love to see our employees thrive both professionally and personally. There has never been a better time to work for Chevron Phillips Chemical. If you’re ready to grow with us and become part of our vision of being the premier Chemical Company, apply today!

Purpose/Introduction

We are currently seeking qualified individuals to join our team as a Process Operator in one of our polyethylene units for our Pasadena Plastics Complex located in Pasadena, Texas. This facility is an employee-oriented, safety conscious environment where respect and recognition are a part of everyone’s responsibility. If you are a dependable, motivated individual and meet the requirements below, you may qualify. The successful candidate should be able to promote a safe environment through applying the Tenets of Operation (safety principles), ensuring environmental compliance, operating reliably, and producing the highest quality product. The process operator will work with maintenance and all other departments to ensure safety, environmental and production goals are met.

Responsibilities

Employees in this position will receive work direction from a Shift Team Leader and work with other operators in performing routine plant operating duties, including, but not limited to the following:

  • Safely operating pumps, compressors, fired heaters, reactors, distillation columns and other plant equipment with operating ranges*
  • Make changes to the operating process to maintain product quality
  • Adjust control Instruments, valves or switches to regulate pressure, temperature or flow rate of product
  • Take routine readings on process variables
  • Operate control room instrumentation systems
  • Draw samples of products from the process for laboratory testing
  • Perform lab testing on some process streams
  • Promptly respond to process alarms/constraints
  • Mix and add chemicals to process as needed
  • Start-up / shutdown process equipment
  • Prepare equipment for maintenance

Position requires ability to climb, bend, lift and perform a wide range of physical activities; ability to work at various heights; entry into confined spaces; work in various adverse weather conditions; ability to listen and follow instructions. Other requirements include passing a written pre-employment test and the Console Operator Basic Requirement Assessment (COBRA) prior to being considered for the job. Successful candidates will be required to take a physical examination, which includes a drug & alcohol screen, fitness for duty exam and a criminal background check. Successful candidates must follow all plant safety guidelines and policies, which includes the wearing of fire-retardant clothing and personal protective equipment (PPE). Successful candidates will be subject to a 150-day probationary period.

Required Qualifications

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the US without sponsorship and be at least 18 years of age
  • Minimum of a High School Diploma/GED with at least 4 years of process operator experience in an applicable industry, OR an associate degree in in process technology or related field with at least 2 years of process operator experience in an applicable Industry
  • Required to work 12 hour rotating shift work schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays (Operating needs of the unit will dictate work schedule)
  • Must be able to complete the requirements of the formal operator's training program
  • Must possess basic computer skills
  • Ability to read and communicate verbally, written, and electronically in English

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with DCS

Chevron Phillips Chemical offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package and at most locations, alternate work schedules. To learn more about Chevron Phillips Chemical and to be considered for a position, please visit us online today at www.cpchem.com .

Paper resumes will not be accepted. All job seekers must go to the web site to be considered for positions. If you are interested in applying for this position and need an accommodation to apply, please contact our Human Resources Service Center at 1-800-446-1422 , option 4.

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status or marital status.

To all recruitment agencies: We are not responsible for any fee related to unsolicited resumes from 3rd party staffing and recruiting agencies (whether submitted through this website or sent directly to employees) unless a written agreement is in place between the agency and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (“Company”) and an authorized Company representative makes a written request to the agency to assist with this requisition. Similarly, no fee will be paid for candidates who apply and claim to be represented by an agency. Any unsolicited resumes, CVs, or other candidate information submitted by an agency will become the property of Company, and no fee will be paid in the event such candidate is hired.

Travel Requirements: Up to 10%

Eligibility for Relocation: No

Closing Date: 03/12/2025

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