Associate Process Engineer

Celanese is a Fortune 500 global chemical and specialty materials company that engineers and manufactures products essential to everyday living. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, Celanese employs approximately 13,300 dedicated people working at more than 50 owned and operated manufacturing facilities across 27 countries. We are committed to employee growth and creating shareholder value, and strive to make a difference in the communities where we operate. Our company focuses on the safety of its employees, provides competitive compensation (including benefits starting Day 1), and emphasizes giving back to the community. For more information about Celanese and our products please visit www.celanese.com

Job Title: Associate Engineer Process

Position: Technology Steward

Responsibilities:

This role will work in a manufacturing unit at the Narrows, VA Celanese facility as a Process Engineer in a Technology steward position. This role will work in a part of a technical team embedded in an operational unit. This team has the objectives to improve safety (process and occupational), quality and productivity. This role uses manufacturing data to identify and implement improvements. This role also generates capital project scopes for hand-off to the capital project group for execution. They also act as the area liaison for capital project execution.

Responsibilities

• Integration as part of a team with operations, ESHA, technical, and project engineers and manufacturing personnel.
• Develop flow schemes to determine mass and energy balances, control logic, and equipment specifications.
• Model processes as part of the overall sizing/design processes.
• Continued involvement in project execution and start up beyond the design phase.
• Interacting with leading internal and external experts, vendors, and other outside consultants to develop and implement improvements.
• Providing technical guidance on areas of expertise to plant manufacturing and engineering organizations.
• Performing process PHAs, MOCs, RCA’s, FMEA’s

Qualifications:

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Able to troubleshoot, correct and make timely decisions
• Proven collaborator
• Process safety knowledge
• Analyze complex datasets
• Project scope/design experience

Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• 1-2 years engineering experience
• 5 years’ experience in manufacturing
• PHA lead or scribe experience
• Project management experience
• Training in Lean or Six Sigma methodologies

Required Education:

• B.S. Chemical Engineering or similar