CBW Yield Optimization Engineer

Company:
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?

Job title

CBW Yield Optimization Engineer, Utilities and Infrastructure

Grade

34/35 commensurate with experience

Location

Chocolate Bayou Works - Alvin, TX

Closing date

4/02/2024

Organizational Context and Job Purpose

Business Context

The O&P USA business includes the product lines Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Polypropylene and High Density Polyethylene. Manufacturing sites include Chocolate Bayou Works (Alvin, TX), Battleground Manufacturing Complex (LA Porte, TX), and Carson, (Carson, CA), with a division office in League City, TX.

The Main Purpose of the Role

The Yield Optimization Engineer ensures proper delivery, compliance, and communication processes for the commercial related activities supporting the supply of feedstock/product to the INEOS Olefins & Polymers assets. The position manages INEOS resources to coordinate inventories, and deliveries to/from customers to deliver commercial strategy. The role utilizes engineering competencies to optimize, when possible, to meet business goals. This role requires the ability to set priorities to timely capture and mitigate risks emerging from operations or from the execution of commercial options. The position requires the competency to lead technical and operational professionals by influence toward the achievement of business goals and management of rapidly changing priorities to meet the site performance contract. The role is the owner of the site material balance and is responsible for daily and monthly accounting/closing activities. The Yield Optimization Engineer reports to the Utilities/Infrastructure Resource Team Leader.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ)

• Promote, ensure and sustain commitment to operate assets with no harm to people and to the environment by visibly demonstrating Safety Leadership
• Support assets' SHE activities, meetings, and inspections to ensure the assets' compliance with plant policies and procedures, OSHA, PSM, DOT, EPA, RRCT and US Coast Guard
• Ensure completion of relevant Management of Change (MOC) and Gensuite action items.
• Support quality management process and provide oversight to the day-to-day activities of the feedstocks/products to ensure the materials produced and feedstocks received meet or exceed the established and agreed requirements
• Engage with operations and lab resources to assist in troubleshooting quality concerns
• Support SHE compliance audits

Financial

• Leads data gathering and coordination with financial and commercial team to complete and issue End of Month closing for products and feedstocks.
• Responsible for providing closing data for internal on-site customer term sheets and monitoring performance within contractual boundaries
• Monitor and assist with communications to internal on-site parties for capital recovery efforts
• Works with finance to troubleshoot any discrepancies and adjustments needed at closing

Optimization

• Interacts with dispatchers, Operations teams, pipeline operators, customers, and commercial team to ensure the safely, timely, and accurate delivery of feedstocks/products to customers
• Interfaces with Commercial and Operations team to establish and execute production plan
• Supports and enhances Aspen Tech tools and feedstock movement tools to drive optimization, troubleshooting, and planning to minimize exposures from operational deviations and maximize revenue.
• Responsible for maintaining the site material balance including daily balancing activities and internal customer streams (i.e. hydrocarbon vents, feedstocks, etc.)
• Continue to develop new tools and processes to streamline scheduling, tracking, and accuracy on material balances
• Supports the Operations team and commercial in the management of feedstock forecast and allocation based on business drivers and contract requirements
• Monitors and drives accountability in the execution of planning/scheduling instructions from internal and external customers
• Engages and influences operations teams, customers, dispatchers and commercial team to support, identify and drive improvement opportunities in the material balances and management of deviations.
• Expands process knowledge to leverage decisions and enable positive impact on operations and business process
• Supports capital/long term projects

Leadership

• Effectively communicate to the resource team and the operations organization deliverables and requirements to support business goals
• Coordinate and influence communication unilaterally through correct organizational structure such as Shift Superintendents, WTLs, etc.
• Lead by influence the resources available within the organization and the CBW site to assure objectives/goals are delivered
• Step-up for Utilities/Infrastructure Resource Team Leader as required

Skills and Knowledge Required

Education and experience

• Engineering degree or equivalent/relevant manufacturing experience required.
• Five (5) years of experience in engineering and/or manufacturing environment with proven track record in the area of scheduling, planning and optimization.

Key skills and competencies

• Strongly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to lead diverse groups of people successfully against established performance metrics
• Possesses a track record of accomplishment by driving performance and accountability
• Strong operations knowledge and ability to learn and stay abreast of industry changes.
• Knowledge of unit operations, material balances and quality assurance methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to manage, progress and deliver multiple and competing priorities
• Fundamental knowledge of financial reporting, account management and contract management
• Experience with process modeling/accounting software
• Commitment and delivery of SHEQ compliance and advancement
• Proven attention to and management of details
• Defines personal success in terms of the whole team
• Makes timely and effective decisions, includes use of good judgment and consideration of proper balance between benefits/risks
• Creates strong morale and spirit, feeling of belonging in team, broadly shares both routine and important tasks

How to Apply

• This job will be posted to end of day of posting close date.
• Interested employees must obtain line manager approval before applying for this position.
• To Apply, locate the job posting online by the closing date by navigating to Workday > Career > INEOS Internal Careers.
• Candidates do NOT need to complete the Education, Job History, Skills and Certification sections; simply bypass this section and proceed to Resume/Cover letter.
• Under the 'Resume/Cover Letter' section, attach your resume and most recent 2 performance appraisals.
• Answer the three required questions for the Internal Question section.
• Click Submit.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.