Advanced Chemical Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Operations and Process Optimization:

• Monitor and optimize UOP technologies, ensuring the identification and resolution of issues.
• Review operations with customers, assisting in defining and quantifying customer benefits and optimizing their processes.
• Identify areas for improvement across UOP technologies and assets, with a focus on efficiency and cost reduction.

Technical Support and Troubleshooting:

• Provide readily available technical solutions to customers, ensuring fast resolution of operational issues.
• Perform initial triage of technical issues, escalating as necessary for further support.
• Proactively communicate insights from trends, establish patterns, and develop diagnostic investigations to prevent future issues.

Data Analytics and Insights:

• Apply data mining to handle unstructured data, deriving technical insights from various data sets.
• Perform descriptive and inferential statistics to summarize datasets and inform process improvements.
• Derive problem statements from ambiguous data, create hypotheses, and use analytics tools to test hypotheses and form conclusions.
• Analyze large amounts of historical data, clean and filter data, identify patterns, and create variables for predictive analytics.

Continuous Monitoring and Reporting:

• Ensure timely monitoring of solutions using PM, PTA, PRA, POA, Benchmarking, and EBA methodologies.
• Troubleshoot and monitor systems to ensure high on-screen availability and continuous operation.
• Work with the team to innovate next-generation BIG DATA monitoring tools using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Shift Management and Operational Excellence:

• Work in a 24/7 shift environment, being flexible and agile to respond to immediate operational needs.
• Collaborate with the GSCCC Operation Leader to ensure the GSC (Global Service Center) becomes a Center of Excellence for operational sustainability and efficiency.

Customer and Stakeholder Interaction:

• Review operations with customers and provide technical recommendations to improve operational efficiency.
• Communicate insights effectively to stakeholders, aligning with business intentions and ensuring commitment to GSCs' key results.

Qualifications:

Educational Background:

• BS degree in Chemical Engineering or related field.

Experience:

• Experience in design or operation of UOP Technology units, particularly in Naphtha, Aromatics, Oleflex, PSA, Merox, Gas Processing, or Hydroprocessing.
• Proven experience with technical solutions and troubleshooting for UOP technologies.
• Familiarity with data mining, predictive analytics, and Big Data monitoring tools.

Key Skills:

• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and make improvements.
• Proficient in data analytics technologies, including Power BI, ProSight, and Machine Learning tools.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical solutions clearly to customers and stakeholders.
• Customer-focused mindset, with the ability to define and quantify customer benefits and deliver timely solutions.

Desirable Skills:

• Passion for continuous learning and staying updated on emerging technologies.
• Ability to think innovatively and 'outside the box,' contributing to new ideas for process improvements.
• Experience in shift work and the ability to manage tasks in a 24/7 operational environment.

Key Competencies:

• Customer-Oriented: Ability to prioritize customer needs and provide effective solutions.
• Innovation: Focused on applying cutting-edge technologies to solve operational challenges.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work in a cross-functional environment and lead collaborative efforts.
• Problem-Solving: Strong ability to analyze complex data and identify actionable insights to drive improvements.