Global Olefins Process Engineer

The Global Olefins Process Group in Global Process Engineering provides leadership and technical support to turnarounds, projects, Value Enhancement Program (VEP) initiatives, and operations for all of the Olefins and Hydrocarbons plants in North America and Europe. The Olefins Process Engineering position will provide technical support for the Olefins and Hydrocarbons plants on a global basis. The prime focus of this position will be to recommend and implement strategic opportunities to improve unit performance. The Olefins Process Engineer will also collaborate with unit specialists and other engineers to support process design and implementation of capital and improvement projects. This position could be part of a design team for major capital projects.

• Effectively communicate with Site Management, as well as Senior LYB Management, on capital projects, Technical Network and GPE goals, and site technical opportunities
• Provide technical leadership on capital projects
• Provide leadership to Technical Network Sub Teams to meet annual Goal Objectives, including the Relief System Network as a Core Team member
• Maintain/improve Olefins Excellence models
  
  
  
  • Support/improve process safety management performance
  • Support the Solomon Study gap closure plans for the Olefins plants
  • Support the Olefins Business Group's plans and opportunities
  • Support LYB Net Zero Transition and CO2 Reduction efforts within the olefins technology
  • Support/improve the Global Turnarounds processes and goals
  • Support VEP thru ideation, evaluation, and execution of initiatives within the Wave tool
  
  
  
  
• Perform design calculations required to generate process data to check and validate equipment and system performance and provide support / leadership when improvements are needed
• Consult, assist, and/or lead as necessary on incident investigations, troubleshooting, unit shutdown/decontamination, startup from turnaround, and follow-up actions
• Effectively interface with groups across the company including site manufacturing and technical groups, other process engineering support groups, project engineering, global turnarounds, and business and engineering management
• Effectively facilitate teamwork to obtain alignment of organizational goals and gain consensus and support from company personnel
• Mentor less experienced engineers

• Travel as needed (depending on home office location); mostly within North America.

Min. Qualifications

• Four-year applicable Engineering/Chemical or Electrical Engineering degree preferred.
• Typically a minimum of 10 years relevant experience
• Working knowledge and overall understanding of industrial process control systems (TDC 3000, Experion, Integrity, IP.21, Optimizer, DMC3, HMI web-based graphics, Windows OS, network communication and security, etc.)
• Good organizational and communication skills, as well as MS Office proficiency are a must
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work well within a team are critical.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Triconex, A-B PLC, Honeywell controls, Wonderware and Bentley-Nevada is a plus.
• Ethylene/olefins or refining process experience is desirable.