Senior Process Engineer

Senior Process Engineer

Pemex Deer Park is a highly complex refinery located 18 miles east of Houston in Deer Park, TX. It is part of the PEMEX group, a fully integrated oil company in the Americas, working across the entire value chain: exploration, production, industrial processing/refining, logistics, and marketing.  PEMEX Deer Park provides a diverse and inclusive work environment that employs approximately 1000 employees with another 1200 contractors on site.  The refinery’s rated capacity is 340,000 barrels per day and has the feed flexibility to process multiple grades of crudes to produce the high-quality transportation fuels the world needs.  The PEMEX Deer Park site is co-located with other 3rd party chemical facilities allowing for further integration and optimization of the refinery and its products.  We set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors and offer challenging and fulfilling job opportunities in a number of fields.  We take great pride in our ability to ensure the health and safety of our workers and the environment while being a good neighbor and positively impacting the local community where we work.

As the Senior Process Engineer, you will provide technical support and assurance to one or more PEMEX Deer Park Refinery production areas. This position is a technical leadership role responsible for monitoring process units to operate safely, safely, reliably, and efficiently significantly influencing the development of Operations Support Engineers. The Senior Process Engineer role provides an opportunity to develop process technology and technical safety skills and mentor and coach others’ development of process engineering fundamentals.

You will serve as a Production Team resource for process safety knowledge and develop and mentor other employees to improve the process safety capabilities of the refinery.

Serving as a primary technologist for the processes in your Production Areas, you will interface with multiple disciplines. You must manage conflicting priorities effectively, especially during high-impact situations. The ability to balance an appropriate level of technical assurance with maximizing business opportunities is key to demonstrating leadership within the Production Teams, and the ability to adjust the mentoring style to match the experience level of engineers on their team is critical to developing technical talent at the refinery.

To be successful, you should have:        

·        Bachelor of Science degree required (preferred discipline Chemical Engineering). Background in Technology and/or Operations.  

·        7-10 years of process engineering experience in oil and gas or petrochemical industries.

·        Experience in reforming or sulfur recovery technologies preferred.

·        A strong understanding of refinery processes and operations.

·        Familiarity with process simulation software preferred (e.g., PRO/II, UniSim, HYSYS).

·        Ability to effectively manage competing priorities.

Your responsibilities as a Sr. Process Engineer will include:

·        Serve as a primary technologist for naphtha reforming, aromatic extraction, and sulfur recovery, including amine and sour water systems.

·        Provide proactive technical monitoring and support to Production Areas to ensure units operate safely and reliably while generating margin for the business.

·        Provide mentoring and coaching to Operations Support Engineers (OSEs). Collaborate with Process Engineering Supervisor on the development of OSEs.

·        Guide OSEs in proposing appropriate operating targets for the process units and systems to meet established feed and product specifications. Audit performance against those targets.

·        Provide technical assurance via the Management of Change (MOC) process to ensure any hazards associated with design changes to process units are adequately mitigated.

·        Identify and communicate issues to the appropriate technical and operations personnel. Lead or assist in the evaluation of complex technical or operational problems. Responsible for defining issues and ensuring solutions.

·        Perform complex engineering analyses (e.g., process modeling, catalyst evaluation, relief design calculations, etc.) as needed to

·        Provide technical guidance for special operation activities (e.g., test runs, decontamination, startups, shutdowns). 

·        Ensures technical documentation is generated to manage knowledge retention, continuity, and organizational learning.

·        Provide process engineering representation in PHAs and incident investigations within assigned areas.

·        Provide input and support to long-term strategic planning for process units and refinery systems.

·        Provide support and leadership to multidiscipline teams addressing cross-organizational issues and opportunities.

·        Serve as a Production Team resource for process safety knowledge. Develop and mentor other employees to improve the process safety capabilities of the refinery.

Benefits:

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package, including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where everyone feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.