Production Engineer (Process | Chemical | Jurong Island)
6 hours ago
About our client: Our client is a leading international chemical manufacturing company.
About the role: The Production Engineer is responsible for im..
About our client: Our client is a leading international chemical manufacturing company.
About the role: The Production Engineer is responsible for improving the production technology of the upcoming plant.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, review, and update all process control documents, procedures, and operation condition sheets in consultation with Production Superintendent and Day Supervisors from Operation.
- Identifying, analyzing, troubleshooting and improving process efficiency, equipment performance, product yield, capacity, quality, process material uses and utility consumption.
- Manage and improve process control system (DCS, SIS) and process data logging system.
- Support trial production and test run of new grades, new processes and equipment with the Production Technology Engineer.
- With a feasibility study, optimize plant operating efficiency, yield optimization, and energy conservation. Then, conduct the necessary field tests to verify the result.
- Provide technical support for Silo & Packaging process, including corrective measures for customer complaints in a technical viewpoint
- Lead process safety assessment (HAZOP, LOPA, etc.) and support HSE department technically.
- Submit reports’ findings and recommend modification, improvement, and potential investment projects such as debottlenecking, and environmental and cost reduction activities (i.e. reduction or more efficient usage of utilities).
- Coordinate with the technical section for process simulation, evaluation, investigation, performance & yield optimization
- Perform basic engineering design for all potential investment projects, prepare marked-up P&IDs and the required technical information for cost estimation purposes.
- Coordinate with the Technical department all plant improvement and modification activities working closely with the Technical Process engineer to prepare detailed
- engineering design, preparing specifications and requisitions for major equipment purchases, reviewing vendors’ documents, conduct hazard analysis, performance tests and commissioning activities.
- Coordinate with the Technical department for regular updates of P&ID’s, and instrument list, and equipment list.
- Communicate with the global process improvement team to build synergy for further technical updates of new plant.
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, or engineering.
- Minimum five (5) years of relevant engineering/production work experience in chemical industry.
- Experience in designing or optimizing the process control system of chemical plants.
- Basic Engineering Skill with utilizing process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID).
- Knowledge of mass and heat balance calculations of chemical plants.
- Demonstrated skill to in leadership, developing others, and working in a team-based environment.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication, presentation, interpersonal, creative thinking, consulting, and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to prioritize work to manage multiple projects to meet deadlines.
- Excellent problem-solving/decision-making skills.
- Ability to multi-task
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in chemical engineering
- Knowledge and experience in chemical process simulations (e.g. polymerization, other reaction processes, distillation, drying, and so on)
- Technical understanding of polymer extrusion process
- Knowledge of DCS programing and parameter tuning (PID control)
- Experience in lean manufacturing methods (e.g. 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen, TPM)
- High proficiency in Excel including VBA, macros, or other related software engineering tools.
- Experience with leading Capex projects
- Experience with Management of Change (MOC), Process safety assessment (PHA, HAZOP, LOPA, FMEA, QRA, etc.), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
*Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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