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Fluor & Energy Materials, an Orbia business, is looking for a Process Engineer in St. Gabriel, LA, USA!
Company Overview:
Orbia's Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura) is a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and supplying fluorine-based products that significantly enhance everyday life. Our innovations are pivotal in diverse applications such as urban construction, temperature control, food preservation, and medical treatments. Based in St. Gabriel, we are proud to be part of the Orbia family, a purpose-driven organization committed to advancing life worldwide through sustainable solutions in cities, buildings, agriculture, materials, and transport. With operations in 41 countries and a team of over 22,000 employees, we strive to maximize value for our stakeholders while fostering a rewarding environment for our team members.
Position Overview:
The Process Engineer plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of our plant facilities. This role involves providing technical support to production operations, implementing process improvements, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and company procedures.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide process design support for production areas.
- Initiate suggestions for plant improvements with respect to process to improve safety, capacity and/or cost.
- Conduct engineering studies and evaluates new equipment.
- Provide technical input for safety reviews and HAZOPs.
- Provide technical input to equipment design and sizing.
- Investigate and develops tests to optimize process conditions.
- Provide technical support during outages and catalyst regeneration/changes.
- Provide out-of-hours call-out coverage.
Skills & Knowledge Required:
- Minimum 5-10 years of Process Engineering experience.
- Basic Chemical Engineering knowledge.
- Ability to perform standard chemical engineering calculations, e.g., fluid flow, pressure drop in piping. relief valve, rupture disc sizing, distillation calculations, reaction calculations, material and energy balance calculations, physical property calculations, heat exchanger sizing calculations.
- Proficient in using spreadsheet software.
- Provide a highly hazardous production area with technically sound advice and ability to provide basic engineering designs.
- Must be able to communicate effectively to all departments and all levels.
- General knowledge of basic hardware and software and uses of a variety of different computer operating systems such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Google Workspace, and web-based software.
- Knowledge in Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and Safeguarding.
- 8-10 years of production experience.
Education Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or a related field.
We welcome purpose-driven dreamers, doers, and builders, recognizing that it takes difference to make a difference. If you’re ready to bring your skills, talents, and perspective to moving your career, the company, people, and the planet forward, we’d like to hear from you.
We believe that every voice matters; every community deserves respect; and every challenge is an opportunity and united by empathy, we are stronger for our different perspectives. We are dedicated to building a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that supports the needs of all our employees regardless of their role, location, identity, and background.
Orbia is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age (40 and over), national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
Dura-Line and Koura have developed and maintain a written Affirmative Action Program (AAP). Orbia's Chief Executive Officer supports the AAP and urges each employee to commit to carrying out the intent of this policy.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please reach out to our People Team at Careers.KouraUS@orbia.com to receive the application form in a more accessible format, or to arrange an accommodation / adjustment to support your participation throughout the recruitment process.
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