Eastman Chemical - Longview, TX
posted 3 months ago
This is a hands-on staff engineer role supporting Eastman's Chemicals Manufacturing operations located at the Texas Operations (TXO) site in Longview, Texas. The role will support an olefins or chemicals manufacturing unit. In this role, you'll partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineers, and other support staff to identify and implement improvements to the manufacturing process in areas of safety, environmental, productivity, quality cost, and reliability. Other duties include day-to-day troubleshooting, turnaround planning/execution, incident investigations, and PHA execution. You'll report to the Director/Superintendent of a TXO Manufacturing unit and will work a day-shift schedule with occasional need for after-hours and weekend duty support. Safety is a core value in this position. You will be expected to role model safe practices, participate in safety audits, support safety projects, and incorporate safety into your routine communications with staff and operating personnel. You will lead and/or assist in incident investigations within assigned areas and serve as Study Leader for area process hazard analyses (PHA), executing action items stemming from PHA studies. A Zero Incident Mindset will be championed in your daily activities. In terms of production support, you will develop a strong technical understanding of the processes, advanced controls, and reactions within the processes. Daily technical support for production processes will be provided, utilizing your technical expertise to resolve plant issues and repairs. You will own several Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) studies, including review and implementation of action items, LOPA studies, and revalidations. Organizing and prioritizing a project portfolio for PHA action item execution will be part of your responsibilities, along with updating key stakeholders within the operating division on progress. You will assist the Area Manager with day-to-day tactical management of operations and participate in morning area production meetings, coming prepared to discuss issues and needs for the day. Your role will also involve investigating concerns raised by Team Managers or crew members, providing technical assistance and training to the crews as needed. You will provide input to the Area Manager for items to be included in the daily write-up to communicate process needs and objectives for assigned areas. Additionally, you will serve as a back-up to the Area Manager for daily operations when they are absent and assist in the development and maintenance of a dashboard of performance measures to provide real-time indications of performance versus entitlement and plan. You will also serve as Division Representative on capital/expense projects as needed and assist in the development and updating of manufacturing procedures. Developing and delivering process-specific training to operations personnel will be crucial to ensure a robust training program is in place. Lastly, you will maintain Statistical Process Control data, update and maintain citation control strategies, assist with shutdown Lock-Out/Tag-Out/Maintenance planning, identify and execute improvement initiatives for Process Monitoring and Control/Situation Awareness, and support Asset Integrity initiatives with appropriate follow-up to critical vulnerabilities. Your expertise will be developed on assigned manufacturing area processes, including a deep understanding of manufacturing area process chemistry and the compatibility of copolyester products to minimize the risk of cross-contamination.