Careers atTexas Petrochemicals

Texas Petrochemicals (TPC) is a premier chemical company, headquartered in Houston with $2 billion in annual sales. TPC is a growing company that provides quality C4 chemical products and services to both local and global industry companies. TPC has manufacturing facilities in the industrial corridor adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel, operations in Baytown and Port Neches, Texas and a product terminal in Lake Charles, Louisiana. TPC has the largest butadiene and butene -1 extraction capacity in North America. In addition, the Company is one of North America's largest producers of isobutylene and derivatives of isobutylene such as polyisobutylene, diisobutylene and isobutylene concentrate. TPC products are widely used as chemical building blocks for synthetic rubber, nylon carpets, adhesives, catalysts and additives used in high-performance polymers. TPC offers excellent benefits, incentive plans, career growth and opportunities for advancement. For more information, please visit us at www.texaspetrochemicals.com

Job responsibilities include:

•  Apply technical skills to optimize plant operations, improve plant performance and reduce operating costs while meeting EHSS commitments and plant production targets.
• This position will also serve as a coach to develop other technical resources and plant operating personnel. Responsibility specify the most important activities an incumbent would be expected to perform.
• Backup Process Coordinator in monitoring daily operations, production rates and product quality.
• Identify operational improvement opportunities.
• Participate in PHA’s, PSSR’s, and lead incident investigations and unit troubleshooting.
• Lead troubleshooting/process improvement teams.
• Lead the effort to implement process optimization measures.
• Assist in the development/implementation of procedures as required.
• Assist in the coaching of operation personnel in techniques to enhance day to day operations.
• Identify and evaluate EHSS risks.
• Actively participate in the Reliability Operations Team for the PIB plants.
• Lead incident investigations and root cause analysis teams.
• Complete project scopes to hand off to capital for estimating as required.
• Initiate AFE’s (capital and expense) and lead followthrough on driving that AFE to completion. 
• Assist in achieving EHSS commitments.
• Support the execution of the daily production plan.
• Monitor daily operations, production rates and product quality to be able to properly support operations teams.
• Idenification and implementation of improvement opportunities.
• Support the effort in developing unit knowledge of the process within the operating personnel. Authority specify the resources or key decisions that the incumbent would control.
• Indirect authority for operator training on a daily basis in the form of teaching process principles and troubleshooting efforts.
• Lead the mentoring effort within the unit.
• Development of process improvement strategies.

Required Skills:

 

• Expert level of problem solving and optimization skills.
• Respects operating staff’s experience - operations knows what happened now and in the past.
• Self-starter
• Embraces change
• Listens and seeks input from employees
• Ability to drive projects and teams to maximize productivity
• Effectively communication skills
• Leads teams
• Champions the company’s safety, environmental and ethics policies
• Excellence in troubleshooting

 

Experience Required:

• 2+ years engineering experience within a petrochemical/chemical plant or refinery 
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
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  Texas Petrochemicals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Principals Only - No Recruiters Please.