Unit Applications Engineer

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About Baytown

With a population of more than 77,000, Baytown, Texas, is located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, just east of Houston, the nation's fourth largest city. Those who live and work in Baytown will find an area rich in history, as well as opportunities for outdoor activities due to its proximity to scenic waterways, namely Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.

Founded in 1919, ExxonMobil's Baytown Complex is located on approximately 3,400 acres along the Houston Ship Channel, about 25 miles east of Houston. Employing a workforce of more than 8,500, it is comprised of four manufacturing sites, including one in nearby Mont Belvieu, and a global technology center. These include the Baytown Refinery, one of the largest refineries in the United States, and the Baytown Olefins Plant, one of the largest ethylene plants in the world.

Its scope of products includes fuels, lube oils, and chemical compounds used in a diverse range of products, from auto battery cases, diapers and tire inner tubes to pharmaceutical uses, food packaging, trash bags and more.

The Baytown area sites are highly integrated, which makes the plants and products more efficient as we develop technologies to make cleaner fuels and work together to operate more safely and reliably.

Learn more about what we do in Baytown here
 

What role you will play in our team

Join an exciting team of multi-discipline engineers in maintaining and advancing the safety, operability, sustainability and profitability for a diverse set of manufacturing operations. Experience real life challenges associated with the design and implementation of innovative solutions to existing process control applications and operator interfaces. Opportunities may include providing process control support during project development, installation and start up. This job is within ExxonMobil manufacturing with opportunities to collaborate across global teams, central engineering and other manufacturing sites. Manufacturing can be both challenging and rewarding and we are looking for motivated individuals interested in long term careers

What you will do

• Join and contribute efforts of a highly driven team of applications engineers to increase process safety, operability and profitability
• Aspects of the role may include supporting installation, commissioning and operations of grassroots or revamped facilities
• Support technologies ranging from basic regulatory control, state-based and sequential control, human-machine interface, abnormal event detection, linear and non-linear model predictive control and real time optimization
• Work closely with manufacturing site personnel, process engineers and business stakeholders to identify opportunities and define scope, cost benefits and project schedule for both new and revamped applications
• Provide active technical leadership through mentoring, proactively sharing technical knowledge, influencing across organizational boundaries, implementing improvements and delivering value capture
• Be available for 24/7 off-hours callouts to address issues impacting unit production; colleagues can backfill to allow for vacations and flexibility
   

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• BS in Chemical Engineering preferred, MS or PHD is an advantage, a degree from another engineering or computational data science discipline is acceptable if the applicant can demonstrate a solid understanding of process control principles and unit operations
• Greater than 7 years of practical experience designing and implementing effective control automation, abnormal event detection, modeling and or optimization applications in support of refining or petrochemical manufacturing facilities through experiences including monitoring, troubleshooting, asset support, projects and turnarounds
• Demonstrated understanding of fundamental chemical engineering principles, process dynamics and feedback control in plant with continuous and or batch operations; basic understanding of instrument measurements, analyzers and other sensors
• Demonstrated capability with at least one industrial DCS (Experion PKS / TDC3000, Centum VP, DeltaV, System 800xA, SIMATIC PCS 7, PlantPAx, etc.) or SCADA (Ignition, OASyS / IRIS, etc.) platform
• Demonstrated capability with at least one other software platform used for advanced control, simulation, modeling or optimization. Examples include: multivariable model predictive control, steady-state simulation, dynamic simulation, real-time optimization, or software used for open equation modeling or non-linear programming / control
• Demonstrated skills in legacy and modern programming languages (Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, SQL, etc.) and/or data analytics and visualization tools (SeeQ, JMP, Tableau, PowerBI) is beneficial
• In addition to strong technical background in advanced process control and optimization, successful candidates will demonstrate innovative thinking, strong initiative, and exemplary communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with peers, across organizational boundaries, and in diverse and globally dispersed teams
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities and stakeholders and be able to influence and promote change to achieve desired results with no direct authority
• Demonstrated ability as a formal or informal leader and mentor
• Prefer Refining experience but will consider Chemicals Process background

Your Benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you: 
 

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you

More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com 

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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