Process Engineering Superintendent

The Process Engineering Superintendent provides process engineering and optimization support to the refinery via technical leadership to a team of process engineers. The role also ensures that technical resources are allocated and prioritized appropriately.

Provide Support to Current Operations:

• Manage process changes required to accommodate process equipment maintenance
• Ensure equipment and process are supervised and trouble-shooting expertise is provided.
• Ensure that the technical guidance required for proper target setting is available daily
• Ensure that equipment performance is being reflected in the optimization targets.
• Understand, monitor, and manage unit heat and material balances.
• Leading all aspects of catalyst performance monitoring and management.
• Ensure consistency in process of technical evaluations, reviews, reporting etc.
• Participate in incident investigations
• Manage resourcing, together with Process Safety, for HAZOP/LOPA studies
• Provide technical support and leadership on product quality issues and find opportunities for improvements
• Provide technical ownership of commercial contracts as applicable
• Ensure regular plant tests are conducted to maintain accurate models and identify asset performance deterioration.
• Support TAR planning and execution via allocation of resources and unit scope definition.
• Ensure cover is provided to support current operations
• Ensure process engineering expertise is available to support the business goals of the Refinery.
• Ensure participation in the refinery process technology networks
• Maintain current knowledge of technology specialty
• Support the innovation process in the business unit by identifying and initiating growth and innovation projects.
• Ensure team provides technical feedback into Regulatory and Sustaining Projects as requested.
• Provide management administration to team members.
• In conjunction with the other Superintendents, generate, maintain and complete a succession and development plan for the engineering team
• Provide leadership and coaching to PE team, in both technical and work prioritization aspects
• Work closely with Operations Superintendents to ensure that process engineering support needs are being met
• Managing the accountabilities' delivery of CMS contractors
• Responsible for bottom-up build of variable cost budget including energy costs
• Support incident management as a member of the Incident Management Team (IMT)

Bachelor’s Degree (preferably Masters Degree)or equivalent experience in Chemical Engineering required.

• Demonstrated ability to work in multi-functional teams with excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• 10 years of proven experience in a refining or manufacturing environment preferred.
• The ability to deliver technical solutions that improve on stream availability eliminates failures and optimizes the refinery's assets.
• Recognized technical expertise in a refining process technology area or unit operations.
• Understanding of the manufacturing process including economics, commercial awareness, optimization opportunity identification and proper use of technology
• Experience managing technical engineering teams in a refinery or chemical plant preferred.