What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Engineer position at Trecora?
Trecora is seeking a Production Engineer to join the team in Pasadena, Texas. The Production Engineer has ultimate accountability for the performance of the assets assigned.
Responsibilities
- Work with Operations to troubleshoot day to day issues that occur
- Ensures production plan is delivered
- Understand and assist Operation to control unit specification on processes being monitored
- Collect / Monitor production data and applies standard scientific and statistical methods to analyze, document, and optimize production processes by increasing throughput, improving asset capability, improving yield and reducing cost
- Understand and be able to use data collection / analysis program
- Understand and be able to use Chemcad -model for process monitoring and optimization
- Recommends changes or upgrades to procedures ,equipment, work methods, or other aspects of the process to improve efficiency and utilization of resources including labor, energy and raw materials
- Identifies process bottlenecks and devises solutions to resolve
- Improves process reliability, production, and quality while maintaining and improving operations safety standards.
- Generate opportunity project list for the units being monitored
- Conducts tests on equipment / processes and evaluate the tests results to determine if the processes / equipment efficiency has improved by either reducing risk, increasing production, or reducing costs
- Develop or enhance, along with assist in implementing, plant operating procedures to standardize a given process, which will reduce risk, increase production, or reducing costs successfully
- Leads or participates in incident investigations and advises on corrective actions for the processes being monitored
- Participate in Process Hazard Analysis studies (PHA’s) on the processes that are assigned.
- Supports / Direct / Champion small capital projects (less than 25,000 $) to make sure they are implemented safely, efficiently, and work as designed with in budget
- This includes working with outside engineering / construction firm(s)
Qualifications
Salary : $25,000
