Process Engineer
Lake Charles, LA - USA
Job Summary
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- This role supports safe stable and reliable plant operations by applying process engineering principles to monitor unit performance troubleshoot operational issues and maintain accurate process documentation. The Process Engineer contributes to Process Safety Management activities participates in root cause investigations and collaborates with Operations Maintenance and other engineering disciplines to drive performance improvements. The role also supports small capital and expense projects through process design input technical evaluations and participation in commissioning and startup activities.
- Support process engineering activities within assigned production units ensuring safe stable and reliable operations.
- Conduct technical evaluations process calculations and basic simulations to troubleshoot operational issues.
- Assist in Process Safety Management (PSM) activities including Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) Management of Change (MOC) and actionitem followup.
- Prepare and maintain process documentation such as P&IDs operating procedures process descriptions and engineering calculations.
- Monitor unit performance data identifying deviations and recommending improvements to efficiency throughput and energy use.
- Participate in root cause investigations and provide engineering input for corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate with Operations Maintenance and other Engineering disciplines to support daily operations and small improvement projects.
- Support capital or expense projects by providing process design inputs reviewing vendor documents and assisting during commissioning or startup.
- Ensure compliance with company standards engineering practices and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including reliability improvements optimization studies and technology upgrades.
- Engage in learning and development to build technical expertise and progress toward higherlevel engineering responsibilities.
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or relevant Science Engineering is preferred.
- 0 5 years relevant engineering experience preferred Experience in a PSM environment preferred Basic understanding of P & IDs and PFDs in a petrochemical or refining setting
- Working knowledge of chemical engineering fundamentals data analysis and technical documentation.
- Familiarity with P&IDs/PFDs and basic PSM elements (MOC PHA participation actionitem followup).
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Operations Maintenance and Engineering teams.
- Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn.
- Clear and effective communication. Teamoriented proactive and dependable.
Sasol (USA) Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed age sex sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy national origin disability or protected veteran status as well as any other characteristic protected by applicable law regulation or local ordinance. For more information about your rights under the law see treats work-authorized job applicants equally in recruiting and hiring without regard to their citizenship status or national origin unless required by law regulation executive order government contract or determination by the Attorney General. Please note Sasol will not sponsor obtain and/or petition for temporary visa status (for example E F-1 H-1 H-2 L B J or TN) for candidates for this position and/or personnel hired for this position.
Required Experience:
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About Company
Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company. We are a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.