Process Engineer

Crystal Clean (CC) is one of the nation's leading privately held companies in the environmental waste services industry. We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a strong work ethic to join our rapidly growing company. Crystal Clean offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for advancement. We are willing to provide complete training for this opportunity!

Purpose: Primary responsibilities include process engineering support for all site operations, working closely with department management and site personnel to evaluate process conditions, provide expertise to projects, maintenance, inspection and turnaround. Proactively interacting with other disciplines, teams and contractors to systematically resolve problems and applying sound engineering judgement to drive integrated, pragmatic solutions focused on risk management, operating efficiency and defect elimination. As part of these activities, this position will review fouling factors, perform pressure surveys and heat transfer calculations in addition to other activities to support the process operations. In addition, this person will oversee the monitoring of catalyst runs as it pertains to catalyst life, supervise the emission calculations for the facility's air permit and work closely with the on-site operating staff and corporate engineering/operations to identify and implement debottlenecking measures. This position will play a key role in management of the facility's Process Safety Management Program (as defined under OSHA 29 CFR.1910.119) and assume responsibility for PSSRs, MOCs, and HazOps.

Essential Duties:

• Responsible for working safely in all job aspects and functions.
• Provide local process engineering support for vacuum distillation and hydrotreating. Support requires answering technical questions, making recommendations, providing process troubleshooting and developing process procedures.
• Develop monitoring activities for effective Equipment/Process evaluation, including heaters, exchangers, pumps, reactors, scrubbers, etc
• Review daily trends, operating data, shift logs looking for trends and correlations as is related to production rates operating efficiencies (pressures, flows, temperatures)
• Work with operating staff to review current operating conditions, evaluate performance and participate in debottlenecking projects. Facilitate agreements on operating philosophies and control strategies on plant units.
• Evaluate Catalyst life based on metals loading, pressure drop, product quality and throughput
• Evaluate pressure drops through the process units to predict potential impact on production and scheduled cleanings.
• Responsible for maintaining the operating envelop and alarm management.
• Provide Operations support and expertise with all equipment troubleshooting and with urgency around keeping equipment up and running, including technical support of unit shutdown and start-up.
• Tuning, optimizing process unit identify short and long term improvement opportunities (safety, reliability and economics). Communicate any technical findings to the Management team.
• Develop and publish unit health monitoring reports
• Flexible to respond to plant and project support needs as priorities change with specific business needs.
• Provide support for the facility air permit by performing critical emission calculations.
• Provide support for the facility's PSM program (as defined under OSHA 29 CFR.1910.119) including MOCs, PSSRs, and HazOps.
• Adhere to all corporate policies and standards including but not limited to environmental and regulatory, human resources, facility, equipment, operations and maintenance.
• Participate in safety and other meetings.

Other Duties

• Provides support for other Operations functions as directed by Indianapolis Operations Manager.
• Provide support for other Environmental functions as directed by the HSSE Manager.

Position Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Core Competencies

• Projects the vision for safety excellence within operating facilities
• Ability to effectively interact with people
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

Work Experience

• Ideal candidate would possess experience in the petrochemical industry (previous jobs, interns or co-op assignments)

Education, Certificates, Licenses, or Designations

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Chemical Engineering Required)

Specific Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Word and Outlook Required
• Advanced knowledge of Excel required
• Excellent communicator

Work Environment: While performing essential duties of this position an individual regularly works both outdoors and indoors, with moderate physical activity including, walking, lifting objects up to 30 pounds and climbing. Individual will be required to regularly talk, hear, see and often reach with hands, stand, walk, use a computer keyboard, mouse, telephone, and other office equipment. Noise level of the environment is variable, but generally not quiet. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

Crystal Clean LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Crystal Clean expressly values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourages the applications of individuals from diverse backgrounds, so that Crystal Clean reflects the communities and customers that we serve.