What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineer, Operations position at EPCO Corporate?
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 :
- 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.
- Track variable costs and look for ways to reduce those costs via process optimization.
- 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.
- Assist in the development of 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.
- Intervene where appropriate to identify and resolve operating issues.
- Ensure compliance with all steps of OSHA 1910.119 / Process Safety Management and DOT regulations.
- Satisfactorily perform other duties as assigned. The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications :
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering is preferred.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience in a chemical plant environment, or related industry is required.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience with production, process, or mechanical troubleshooting and optimization activities is required.
- Experience with light hydrocarbons, MTBE, Oleflex, Ethermax, Dehydrogenation, Reactive Distillation, Fractionation, and OSHA 1910.119 (PSM) 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.
